Theatres of Compost - Performance and Ecology for the Anthropocene

Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Theatres of Compost
1. "some of the food is twigs": A Compost Dramaturgy
2: In Lak Ech: Compost Performance in the Chicano Movement
3: Wild Home: Notes on Wild Theatre
4: Seeds of Resistance: Toward an Interspecies Collectivity
Epilogue: Performance All the Way Down
Index

About the author

Abby Schroering (she/her) earned a doctorate in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University in the City of New York. Her writingcan be found in Modern Drama, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, American Theatre Magazine, Public Books, and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: Abby Schroering
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032771830
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277183-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; NATURE / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Applied ecology, Theatre Studies