Climate Theatre

Ecology and Performance in a Climate Emergency
Herausgeber: Varney, Denise; Eckersall, Peter; Parker-Starbuck, Jen

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Produktbeschreibung

Climate Theatre explores how performance arts portray environmental distress across diverse settings, united by concerns about climate impacts. It examines theatrical traditions responding to ecological challenges while showcasing works that position climate as a dynamic presence in performance and activism.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781032953472
• ISBN-10: 1032953470
• Artikelnr.: 75014851

Autorenporträt

Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne Peter Eckersall is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), NY Jen Parker-Starbuck is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1. Climate Theatre:
Thinking about climate and performance
Chapter 2. AnthropoScenes on Campus: Ecospheric Knowledge Production, by
Una Chaudhuri
Chapter 3. Theatre and Climate Change: Constellating a New Lexicon by
Minty Donald and Carl Lavery
Chapter 4. Hope and Trust in the Future: Human to Nonhuman in Australian
Drama by Peta Tait
Provocations in the Anthropocene: More-than-human
Chapter 5. The Sea is on Fire: Machinic Crustaceans and Ecological Promises
by Jen Parker-Starbuck
Chapter 6. Being Prey at the End of the World: Kris Verdonck in
Conversation with Lara Stevens about his latest work, PREY (2023) by Kris
Verdonck and Lara Steven
by Sarah Lucie
Chapter 8. Performing lunar climates by Felipe Cervera
Chapter 9. Re-staging Cabinets of Curiosities in the Age of Anthropocene by
Cen Liu
Environmental violence and inequity
Chapter 10. Slow Violence in Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and Saints by Elin
Diamond
Chapter 11. Urban Ecologies in Performance: from Colonialism to Community
in Peter Morin's Cultural Graffiti and Fast Familiar's The Strategy Room
by Lisa Woynarski
Chapter 12. Mutating Performance: On Monira Al Qadiri's Speculative
Petroaesthetics by Katia Arfara
Climate risk, activism & eco-performance
Chapter 13. Performing Fading: Postvisual Dramaturgy in Durational
Catastrophes by Kyoko Iwaki
Chapter 14. Performing Across Time: Jill Orr in Conversation with Peta Tait
by Jill Orr and Peta Tait
Chapter 15. Dramaturgy for Community Renewal and Environmental Care by
Linda Hassall
Chapter 16. Performing climate activism by Deborah Hart
Chapter 17. Wilderness Acts: Dorothy Molter and Performing the Boundary
Waters by Eero Laine
Culture, community & survival
Chapter 18. Hyphenated Thinking in Performance-Pedagogical Prototypes:
Maria Lucia Correia's Common Dreams Flotation School and Natural Contract
Lab by Christel Stalpaer
's Climate: Eco-utopic Confluences and Contradictions by Sarah Ann Standing
Chapter 20. Tacuabé's Bow: Surviving through Absence by Maria Litvan
The recalcitrant politics of climate change
Chapter 21. Climate Control: Gender, Nature, and Stories of the Snow Queen
by Clara Wilch
Chapter 22. It doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. But it doesn't
matter that it doesn't work': David Finnigan's Dramaturgy of Errors by
Milo Harries
Chapter 23. Just and sustainable futures: How will we do it? by Anitra
Nelson
Index