Theatre Revivals For The Anthropocene

Author : Patrick Lonergan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100928214X

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Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene by Patrick Lonergan Pdf

This Element argues that the climate emergency requires a new approach to the study of theatre history - a suggestion that is developed through an analysis of the practice of theatrical revival during the Anthropocene era. Staging old plays in new ways can make visible ecological or environmental features that might have previously gone unnoticed: features which, in some cases, might not have been consciously included by the original authors or makers of a work, but which will be detectable to audiences nevertheless. These links are explored through case studies from the contemporary Irish theatre - including revivals of plays by Shakespeare, Lady Gregory, and Samuel Beckett, as performed by such major Irish companies as Rough Magic, Druid Theatre, and Company SJ. The Element ultimately shows how theatre can contribute to debates about the Anthropocene, and offers new pathways for theatre practice and criticism.

Author : Patrick Lonergan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009282161

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Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene by Patrick Lonergan Pdf

This Element argues that the climate emergency requires a new approach to the study of theatre history – a suggestion that is developed through an analysis of the practice of theatrical revival during the Anthropocene era.

Author : Sarah Jane Mullan,Sarah Bartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009525824

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Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper by Sarah Jane Mullan,Sarah Bartley Pdf

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary forms deployed in the final years of apartheid in South Africa (1990s), up until the present day in the UK (2020s). Across this Element, the author is interested in what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. By holding these diverse examples together, the author asserts the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.

Author : Samuel Ravengai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009271448

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Decolonising African Theatre by Samuel Ravengai Pdf

Decolonisation can be pursued in different ways. After many years of developing a critical language to engage coloniality, the most urgent need in African theatre is to develop new theories and methods in our manufactories. This Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African theatre. The Element particularly focuses on the history of laboratories in which it was tested and emerged, the historicization of rombic theatre and the crafting of a theory of the playtext which has been named theatric theory to distinguish it from the Aristotelian dramatic theory. The second dimension of the theory is the performatic technique. This Element also explain Afrosonic mime through examples drawn from the workshops conducted in training performers.

Author : Vicky Angelaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031548925

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Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre by Vicky Angelaki Pdf

Author : Mallarika Sinha Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009264082

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Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India by Mallarika Sinha Roy Pdf

Among the most significant playwrights and theatre-makers of postcolonial India, Utpal Dutt (1929-1993), was an early exponent of rethinking colonial history through political theatre. Dutt envisaged political theatre as part of the larger Marxist project, and his incorporation of new developments in Marxist thinking, including the contributions of Antonio Gramsci, makes it possible to conceptualise his protagonists as insurgent subalterns. A decolonial approach to staging history remained a significant element in Dutt's artistic project. This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned through the writing and producing of plays about the peasant revolts and armed anti-colonial movements which took place during the period of British rule. Drawing on contemporary debates in political theatre regarding the autonomy of the spectator and the performance of history, the author locates Dutt's political theatre in a historical frame.

Author : Iphigenia Taxopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350215733

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Sustainable Theatre: Theory, Context, Practice by Iphigenia Taxopoulou Pdf

How does the world of theatre and the performing arts intersect with the climate and environmental crisis? This timely book is the first comprehensive account of the sector's response to the defining issue of our time. The book documents a sector in transition and presents theatre professionals, practitioners and organizations with a synthesis of information, knowledge and expertise to guide them to their own endorsement of sustainable thinking and practice. It is illustrated with inspiring case studies and interviews, from London's National Theatre, to Sydney Theatre Company, to the Göteborg Opera and the American Repertory Theatre. These foreground the work of pioneering institutions and individual practitioners whose artistic ingenuity, creative activism and sense of public mission have given shape, content and purpose to what we can now call 'sustainable theatre'. Spanning almost three decades, the book approaches the topic from multiple angles and through an international perspective, recording how climate and environmental concerns have been expressed in cultural policy, arts leadership and organizational ethics; in the greening of infrastructure and daily operations; in the individual and institutional practice of sustainable theatre-making; in performing arts education; and in touring practices and international collaboration. It investigates, too, how the climate crisis influences theatre as a story-teller – on stage and beyond. Written by a leading expert in the field of culture and environmental sustainability and distilling many years of research and hands-on experience, Sustainable Theatre: Theory, Context, Practice is intended to be relevant and useful to professionals involved in the theatre and performing arts sector in many different capacities: from policy-makers, arts leaders and managers to administrators, technicians, artists, scholars and educators.

Author : Earl T. Harper,Doug Specht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000453508

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Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene by Earl T. Harper,Doug Specht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment. Exploring their own empirical and philosophical contexts, the authors examine the forms of political acting found in apocalyptic imaginaries and reflect on what this means for contemporary society. By framing their arguments around either pre-apocalyptic, peri-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic narratives and events, a timeline emerges throughout the volume which shows the different opportunities for political agency the anthropocenic subject can enact at the various stages of apocalyptic moments. Featuring a number of creative interventions exclusively produced for the work from artists and fiction writers who engage with the themes of apocalypse, decline, catastrophe and disaster, this innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the politics of climate change, the environmental humanities, literary criticism and eco-criticism.

Author : Patrick Lonergan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350464971

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Theatre and Social Media by Patrick Lonergan Pdf

How does theatre, one of the most ancient and physical arts, relate to the modern, dynamic technology that is social media? How have changes in the use of social media affected the theatre? How does social media itself operate as a performance space? Used daily by many, social media has become one of the main mediums through which we present and perform our lives. In this concise study of the revealing relationship between theatre and social media, Patrick Lonergan considers social media as a performance space, analyses how theatre-makers' engagement with social media on and off stage affects elements of theatrical composition and reception, and explores the practical and conceptual implications of audiences interacting with professional productions through social media. Exploring case studies from Shakespearean performance to Broadway musicals, this revised edition explores new approaches to social media and theatre, asking how new platforms can influence, and even create, theatre productions.

Author : Mohebat Ahmadi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000583977

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Towards an Ecocritical Theatre by Mohebat Ahmadi Pdf

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of changing interactions between humans and the nonhuman world. To explore these problems, the book investigates international Anglophone plays and performances by Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, Andrew Bovell, E.M. Lewis, Chantal Bilodeau, Jordan Hall, and Miwa Matreyek, who have taken significant steps towards re-orienting theatre from its traditional focus on humans to an ecocritical attention to nonhumans and the environment in the Anthropocene. Their theatrical works show how an engagement with the problem of scale disrupts the humanist bias of theatre, provoking new modes of theatrical inquiry that envision a scale beyond the human and realign our ecological culture, art, and intimacy with geological time. Moreover, the plays and performances studied here, through their liveness, immediacy, physicality, and communality, examine such scalar shifts via the problem of agency in order to give expression to the stories of nonhuman actants. These theatrical works provoke reflections on the flourishing of multispecies responsibilities and sensitivities in aesthetic and ethical terms, providing a platform for research in the environmental humanities through imaginative conversations on the world’s iterative performativity in which all bodies, human and nonhuman, are cast horizontally as agential forces on the theatrical world stage. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre studies, environmental humanities, and ecocritical studies.

Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231538923

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Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr Pdf

Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times. The stage proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary science, though, often resisting and altering the ideas at its core. Many dramatists cast suspicion on the arguments of evolutionary theory and rejected its claims, even as they entertained its thrilling possibilities. Engaging directly with the relation of science and culture, this book considers the influence of not only Darwin but also Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and other evolutionists on 150 years of theater. It shares significant new insights into the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical record, unpacking their dramatic explorations of biological determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal instinct, and the "cult of motherhood." It is likely that more people encountered evolution at the theater than through any other art form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a diverse community of spectators and the power that entails, this book is a key text for grasping the extent of the public's adaptation to the new theory and the legacy of its representation on the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of scientific work.

Author : Philip Hager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009250559

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Re-imagining Independence in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance by Philip Hager Pdf

This Element examines practices that occurred since the beginning of the Greek crisis and revisits the mnemonic canon of the Greek War of Independence. By focusing on the institution of the mnemonic canon of independence, and subsequently on its contemporary re-imaginings, this Element interrogates performance work vis-à-vis Greece's histories of colonial dependencies – histories that are integral to the institution of modern Greece. As such, the examples discussed here rehearse independence against and beyond national(ist) fantasies and, in so doing, attest to an emerging desire for decolonisation.

Author : John Parham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108498531

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene by John Parham Pdf

From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.

Author : Vicky Angelaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137609847

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Theatre and Environment by Vicky Angelaki Pdf

This exciting new title in the Theatre And series explores how theatre and the environment have informed and continue to inform each other, considering both what theatre can do for the environment and what the environment can do for theatre. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies from writers and theatre-makers, Vicky Angelaki encourages a sense of responsibility towards the environment and examines how it is being handled by artists and performers in our time. Timely and topical, this concise introduction is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance studies with an interest in the environment, contemporary theatre-making or site-specific performance.

Author : Siobhan Angus
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781478059172

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Camera Geologica by Siobhan Angus Pdf

In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography’s complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.