Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project The Ecocide Theatre Casebook

by Chaudhuri, Una; Enelow, Shonni

• ISBN13: 9781137396617
• ISBN10: 113739661X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Summary

Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. The growing scientific and public consensus about the many looming crises following from climate change is matched by an increasing interest, on the part of artists and scholars, to identify creative strategies and practices capable of mounting adequate and appropriate responses to those crises. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical, and critical engagement with the urgent issue of making art in the age of climate change.

Author Biography

Una Chaudhuri is Collegiate Professor and Professor of English and Drama at New York University, USA.

Shonni Enelow is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Research Theatre
2. Theorizing Ecocide: The Theatre of Eco-Cruelty
3. A Research Theatre Process: The Ecocide Project, By Fritz Ertl
4. Staging Carla and Lewis, By Ecocide Project collaborators 5. Carla and Lewis, By Shonni Enelow