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Staging Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Staging Place

The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

Animal Acts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Animal Acts

Encounters between the species in an anthology of lively solo performances and commentary

The Stage Lives of Animals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

The Stage Lives of Animals

The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling, and making art offered by animals and animality, bringing insights from theatre practice and theory to animal studies as well as exploring what animal studies can bring to the study of theatre and performance. As our planet lives through what scientists call "the sixth extinction," and we become ever more aware of our relationships to other species, Chaudhuri takes a highly original look at the "animal imagination" of well-known plays, performances and creative projects, including works by: Caryl Churchill Rachel Rosenthal Marina Zurkow Edward Albee Tennesee Williams Eugene Ionesco Covering over a decade of explorations, a wide range of writers, and many urgent topics, this volume demonstrates that an interspecies imagination deeply structures modern western drama.

Land/scape/theater
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Land/scape/theater

Essays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater

Critical Theory and Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 612

Critical Theory and Performance

Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance

Staging Resistance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Staging Resistance

Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. This consistently challenging collection describes the art of change confronting the actual processes of change. 17 photos.

Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project: A Casebook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project: A Casebook

Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical, and critical engagement with the urgent issue of making art in the age of climate change.

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères

This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic 'bayadere' or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the Briish in the eighteenth centuries that India became a part of the French literary imagination.

Rachel's Brain and Other Storms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Rachel's Brain and Other Storms

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-10-23
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Rachel Rosenthal is an internationally recognised pioneer in the field of feminist and ecological performance art. Her revolutionary performance technique integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and wildly imaginative sets into an unforgettable theatre experience. In the last twenty years she has presented over thirty-five pieces nationally and internationally. She has been called 'a monument and a marvel' and critically ranked with Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Ping Chong, Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. Her work is passionately dedicated to interrogating, illuminating and improving the relationship between human beings and the planet we share with so many other species. Her performances explore and embody the long history and urgent future of this deeply troubled relationship, and use viscerally compelling performance to draw us into a direct experience of the beauty and power of our lives in nature.

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and global climate change. The volume’s eight chapters illustrate the aptness of life writing and life writing studies to critically reevaluate the role of “the human” vis-à-vis non-human others while remaining mindful of persisting inequalities between humans regarding who causes and who suffers damage in the Anthropocene age. The authors in this collection not only expand the toolbox of life writing studies by engaging with critical insights from the fields of posthumanism and ecocriticism, but, in turn, also enrich those fields by offering unique approaches to contemplate the responsibility of humans for as well as their relational existence in the posthuman Anthropocene.