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Klappentext A study into the relationships between performance! theatre and environmental ecology. Zusammenfassung What are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically threatened world? How might ecological understandings refigure the interactions of theatre and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions by investigating an eclectic international sample of environments and performance events! in theatres and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue. A kind of storm: 1. An introduction to theatre and performance ecology; Part I. In the Present: Qualities of Theatre and Performance: Preamble; 2. Performance contexts: theatre at the end of its tether; 3. Performance archives: catching the Northern sublime; 4. Performance limits: steps to a paradoxology; Part II. Of the Past: Histories of Theatre and Performance: Preamble; 5. Economies of performance: theatre against democracy; 6. Audiences of performance: declining participation; 7. Spectacles of performance: excesses of power; Part III. For the Future: Ecologies of Theatre and Performance: Preamble; 8. Performance and black holes: on eco-activism; 9. Performance and energy: on free radicals; 10. Performance and biospheres: on hermetic theatre; Epilogue: listen up for the cracks; Appendix. A chronology of chapter sources; Bibliography, multimedia, websites; Index.
