Science in Performance - Theatre and the Politics of Engagement

This book explores how theatre engages with contemporary scientific themes in the twenty-first century. It looks at how and why different forms of performance, from the Broadway musical to experimental and educational theatres, tackles a wide range of scientific themes, including artificial intelligence, genetics and climate change.

List of contents

Preface: about this book
1 Science in performance: convergence, emergence, divergence
2 Laughing at science in the theatre: Gob Squad, a funny robot and dancing scientists
3 Speculative theatricality: dystopian performatives and vertigo aesthetics in popular theatre
4 Theatre, education and the politics of life itself: Theatre of Debate
5 Commoning sense: translating globalised knowledge in performance
6 Performing cosmopolitics

About the author

Simon Parry is a Lecturer in Drama and Arts Management at the University of Manchester

Product details

• Authors: Simon Parry
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780719099205
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9920-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory - Practice - P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet