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Author: Wendy Arons ,
Theresa J. May
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.330kg
ISBN: 9781137467003
ISBN 10: 1137467002
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 07 January 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This collection of essays brings ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with dramaturgy and offers rich and suggestive ways to explore a new framework and a different vocabulary through which to interpret the dialogic roles of the environment within the episteme of theatrical community ... The book features a very strong collection of essays, which reshape theatre in a field of diverse practices ... In short, this book tried to explore the challenge of understanding ecological values and the power of theatre from a new standpoint. It has not been possible in this brief account to do justice to all the good things that his book offers, but I have certainly found it fascinating and thought-provoking.' - Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism [A] refreshing addition to Palgrave Macmillan's What Is Theatre? series ... The real strength of this edited collection is Arons and May's guiding vision of 'the fierce, inexorable interconnectivity between nature and human culture' ... these essays successfully interweave performance and story to show us why and how our telling matters. - ISLE Readings in Performance and Ecology assembles a broad range of essays that take as their respective foci ecological debates, animals in performance, ecoactivisim, landscapes and bodies, ecocriticism in dramatic literature, and the practicalities of theatremaking. This expansive scope evidences the editors' assertion that performance theorists and practitioners should adopt ecocentric approaches to their work ... Whereas ecocriticism has emerged from the discipline of literary criticism as a rich subfield, terms such as 'ecodramaturgy' and 'ecodirecting' have not yet carved out a place in the vernacular of theatre and performance studies. This anthology seeks to do this. - The Drama Review Arons and May have pulled together a lively, perceptive collection of essays that takes as its key terms ecology and theatre, demonstrating the multiple ways performance and the environment are or should be linked. Using what the editors call 'ecodramaturgy,' the volume invites practical and theoretical engagements with questions of production and waste, suggesting environmentally green and sustainable theatre practices. The collection also offers insight into how animals, the environment, anti-nuclear activism, ethics, colonialism, class, and of course power are yoked together as much more than metaphor in dramatic literature and in live performance. Written with activist urgency and critical lucidity, these discerning essays vividly explore theatre's potential to help us reimagine how we co-inhabit the earth. - Jill Dolan, Annan Professor in English and Theatre, Princeton University
Readings in Performance and Ecology assembles a broad range of essays that take as their respective foci ecological debates, animals in performance, ecoactivism, landscapes and bodies, ecocriticism in dramatic literature, and the practicalities of theatremaking ... Whereas ecocriticism has emerged from the discipline of literary criticism as a rich subfield, terms such as 'ecodramaturgy' and 'ecodirecting' have not yet carved out a place in the vernacular of theatre and performance studies. This anthology seeks to do this. - The Drama Review The book features a very strong collection of essays, which reshape theatre in a field of diverse practices ... Although theatre is conventionally assumed to be human-centred, the book has perfectly represented the power of the 'other-than-human' world and the outer landscape in the history of drama ... fascinating and thought-provoking. - Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism The real strength of this edited collection is Arons and May's guiding vision of 'the fierce, inexorable interconnectivity between nature and human culture' ... these essays successfully interweave performance and story to show us why and how our telling matters. - ISLE
'This collection of essays brings ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with dramaturgy and offers rich and suggestive ways to explore a new framework and a different vocabulary through which to interpret the dialogic roles of the environment within the episteme of theatrical community ... The book features a very strong collection of essays, which reshape theatre in a field of diverse practices ... In short, this book tried to explore the challenge of understanding ecological values and the power of theatre from a new standpoint. It has not been possible in this brief account to do justice to all the good things that his book offers, but I have certainly found it fascinating and thought-provoking.' - Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism [A] refreshing addition to Palgrave Macmillan's What Is Theatre? series ... The real strength of this edited collection is Arons and May's guiding vision of 'the fierce, inexorable interconnectivity between nature and human culture' ... these essays successfully interweave performance and story to show us why and how our telling matters. - ISLE Readings in Performance and Ecology assembles a broad range of essays that take as their respective foci ecological debates, animals in performance, ecoactivisim, landscapes and bodies, ecocriticism in dramatic literature, and the practicalities of theatremaking. This expansive scope evidences the editors' assertion that performance theorists and practitioners should adopt ecocentric approaches to their work ... Whereas ecocriticism has emerged from the discipline of literary criticism as a rich subfield, terms such as 'ecodramaturgy' and 'ecodirecting' have not yet carved out a place in the vernacular of theatre and performance studies. This anthology seeks to do this. - The Drama Review
Author Information
Robert Baker-White, Williams College, USA Derek Lee Barton, independent scholar Una Chaudhuri, New York University, USA Downing Cless, Tufts University, USA Anne Justine D'Zmura, California State University, Long Beach, USA Sara Freeman, University of Puget Sound, USA Ian Garrett, York University, Canada Kathleen M. Gough, University of Glasgow, UK Nelson Gray, University of Victoria, Canada Wallace Heim, independent scholar Cornelia Hoogland, University of Western Ontario, Canada Baz Kershaw, Warwick University, UK Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh, USA Justin A. Miller, Texas A and M University, USA Meg O'Shea, independent scholar Sarah Ann Standing, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, USA Arden Thomas, California Institute of Technology, USA Barry Witham, University of Washington, USA
