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Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Baz Kershaw
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:372
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreDrama
Environmentalist thought and ideology
ISBN/Barcode 9780521120746
ClassificationsDewey:792
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 1 October 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book asks what are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically threatened world? Is there a future for theatre as an ethically and politically alert art through environmental action? How might ecological understandings refigure the natural virtues of theatre and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions by investigating an eclectic cosmopolitan sample of environments and performance events, in theatres and beyond. It proposes that performance is a peculiarly twenty-first century addiction at the root global warming. Encountering this prospect head-on, it searches for pathological hope in historical theatre at the end of its tether and rumbles the contemporary paradigm of performance for signs of eco-sanity. Recognising the future is always before its time, Theatre Ecology is a paradoxical tract for survival past the final ecological era.