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Theatre ecology : environments and performance events / Baz Kershaw.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kershaw, Baz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Political aspects.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Theater ecology
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- 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 of 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction 1
- Prologue: a kind of storm 3
- 1 On theatre and performance ecology 5
- Part 1 In The Present: Qualities of Theatre And Performance 39
- Preamble 41
- 2 Performance contexts: theatre at the end of its tether 55
- 3 Performance archives: catching the Northern sublime 75
- 4 Performance limits: steps to a paradoxology 98
- Part II Of The Past: Histories of Theatre And Performance 133
- Preamble 135
- 5 Economies of performance: theatre against democracy 150
- 6 Audiences of performance: declining participation 179
- 7 Spectacles of performance: excesses of power 206
- Part III For The Future: Ecologies Of Theatre And Performance 239
- Preamble 241
- 8 Performance and black holes: on eco-activism 255
- 9 Performance and energy: on free radicals 275
- 10 Performance and biospheres: on hermetic theatre 300.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521877169
- 0521877164
- OCLC:
- 164570763
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