Overview
- Offers a definitive study of contemporary performance and ecology
- Articulates and introduces new thinking on dramaturgy
- Analyses extended examples of practice, providing scholars, students and performance-makers with illustrative models
Part of the book series: New Dramaturgies (ND)
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This book addresses theatre’s contribution to the way we think about ecology, our relationship to the environment, and what it means to be human in the context of climate change. It offers a detailed study of the ways in which contemporary performance has critiqued and re-imagined everyday ecological relationships, in more just and equitable ways. The broad spectrum of ecologically-oriented theatre and performance included here, largely from the UK, US, Canada, Europe, and Mexico, have problematised, reframed, and upended the pervasive and reductive images of climate change that tend to dominate the ecological imagination. Taking an inclusive approach this book foregrounds marginalised perspectives and the multiple social and political forces that shape climate change and related ecological crises, framing understandings of the earth as home. Recent works by Fevered Sleep, Rimini Protokoll, Violeta Luna, Deke Weaver, Metis Arts, Lucy + Jorge Orta, as well as Indigenous activist movements such as NoDAPL and Idle No More, are described in detail.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lisa Woynarski is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Reading, UK. As a performance-maker and scholar, she works at the intersection of contemporary performance and ecology, with a focus on environmental justice issues and urban ecology. Her work has appeared in Contemporary Theatre Review, RiDE, Performance Research, and Performing Ethos.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecodramaturgies
Book Subtitle: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change
Authors: Lisa Woynarski
Series Title: New Dramaturgies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55853-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55852-9Published: 26 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55855-0Published: 27 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55853-6Published: 25 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-6801
Series E-ISSN: 2947-681X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, Climate Change