Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science

This Companion is for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and theatre makers as well as general readers interested in the relationship between theatre and science. It covers topics such as climate change drama, theatre technology, animal studies, and performance and cognition, as well as many periods of theatre history.

List of contents

Introduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 1. Objectivity & observation Dan Rebellato; 2. Staging consciousness: Metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall; 3. The experimental/experiential stage: extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre Carina Bartleet; 4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit: theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery; 5. The play at the end of the world: deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams; 6. Bodies of knowledge: theatre and medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 7. Pathogenic performativity: urban contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh; 8. Theatres of mental health Jonathan Venn; 9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike Vanden Heuvel; 10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael Carklin; 11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair; 12. Staging cognition: how performance shows us how we think Amy Cook; 13. Clouds and meteors: recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati; 14. The stage hand's lament": scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.

About the author

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016), and Twentieth-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern (2016), coedited with Laura Marcus and Michèle Mendelssohn and shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association book prize.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten E. (University of Oxford) Shepherd-Barr
• Assisted by: Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (Editor), Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (Editor), Kirsten E. (University of Oxford) Shepherd-Barr (Editor), Shepherd-Barr Kirsten E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108700986
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70098-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance; Cambridge Companions to Theatr
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; DRAMA / General, Social & cultural history, History of Science, environmental science, engineering & technology, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Impact of science & technology on society, Performance Art, Impact of science and technology on society, Literature: history and criticism, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production