Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events

by Baz Kershaw

Book Overview

This book asks 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120748
• ISBN13: 9780521120746
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"