Description
Book SynopsisThe Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy, thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem to dominate.
The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research, undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual cha
Table of Contents
Introduction: Setting the Ecotheatrical Scene
Chapter One: The Environment on Stage in Production and Reception
Chapter Two: Natural Disasters as Ecotheatrical Shapeshifters
Chapter Three: An Ecotheatrical Perspective on Dearth in Performance
Chapter Four: The Environment in Performance – Stage Invasion or Deus ex Machina?
Chapter Five: Environmental Theatre, Site Specificity and Theatre Ecologies
Chapter Six: Frugal Modes of Story-telling as Ecotheatre
Chapter Seven: Bicycles on Stage – Shapeshifters or Scenery?
Chapter Eight: Reperforming Reception – The Skriker in 1994 and 2015
Chapter Nine: On the Importance of Intrinsic Environmental Responsibility
