{"product_id":"theatre-ecology-environments-and-performance-events-paperback-9780521120746","title":"Theatre Ecology; Environments and Performance Events (Paperback) 9780521120746","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheatre Ecology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnvironments and Performance Events\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study into the relationships between performance, theatre and environmental ecology.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBaz Kershaw (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521120746, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 1 October 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book asks what are the challenges to theatre and the purposes of performance in an ecologically threatened world? Is there a future for theatre as an ethically and politically alert art through environmental action? How might ecological understandings refigure the natural virtues of theatre and performance? Theatre Ecology gets to grips with such questions by investigating an eclectic cosmopolitan sample of environments and performance events, in theatres and beyond. It proposes that performance is a peculiarly twenty-first century addiction at the root global warming. Encountering this prospect head-on, it searches for pathological hope in historical theatre at the end of its tether and rumbles the contemporary paradigm of performance for signs of eco-sanity. Recognising the future is always before its time, Theatre Ecology is a paradoxical tract for survival past the final ecological era.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Prologue. A kind of storm: 1. An introduction to theatre and performance ecology\u003cbr\u003e Part I. In the Present: Qualities of Theatre and Performance: Preamble\u003cbr\u003e 2. Performance contexts: theatre at the end of its tether\u003cbr\u003e 3. Performance archives: catching the Northern sublime\u003cbr\u003e 4. Performance limits: steps to a paradoxology\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Of the Past: Histories of Theatre and Performance: Preamble\u003cbr\u003e 5. Economies of performance: theatre against democracy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Audiences of performance: declining participation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Spectacles of performance: excesses of power\u003cbr\u003e Part III. For the Future: Ecologies of Theatre and Performance: Preamble\u003cbr\u003e 8. Performance and black holes: on eco-activism\u003cbr\u003e 9. Performance and energy: on free radicals\u003cbr\u003e 10. Performance and biospheres: on hermetic theatre\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: listen up for the cracks\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. A chronology of chapter sources\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography, multimedia, websites\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003326189848,"sku":"9780521120746","price":40.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521120746i_bc7125ab-1e0d-4da8-b46d-dea60c4d42a0.jpg?v=1691371693","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theatre-ecology-environments-and-performance-events-paperback-9780521120746","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}