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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483796303321

Autore

Woynarski Lisa

Titolo

Ecodramaturgies : theatre, performance and climate change / / Lisa Woynarski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55853-3

9783030558529

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 239 p. 10 illus.)

xiv ,239 pages : illustrations ; ; 22 cm

Collana

New Dramaturgies

Disciplina

792.0905

Soggetti

Theater

Performing arts

Climatic changes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Intersectional Ecologies -- 3. More-than-human Matters: Bioperformativity -- 4. Bodily Ecologies: Exposure, Participation and Immersion -- 5. Earth As Home: Local, Imagined, Material, Global. 6. Decolonised Ecologies: Performance Against the Anthropocene 7. Conclusion: Imagining the Future(s).

Sommario/riassunto

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.