Readings in performance and ecology

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
 Introduction  (Wendy Arons, Theresa J. May)....Pages 1-10
Front Matter ....Pages 11-11
 Theater, Environment, and the Thirties  (Barry Witham)....Pages 13-22
 Bringing Blood to Ghosts: English Canadian Drama and the Ecopolitics of Place  (Nelson Gray)....Pages 23-32
 Other Others: Dramatis Animalia in Some Alternative American Drama  (Robert Baker-White)....Pages 33-41
Front Matter ....Pages 43-43
 The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species  (Una Chaudhuri)....Pages 45-57
 Dancing with Monkeys? On Performance Commons and Scientific Experiments  (Baz Kershaw)....Pages 59-76
 Everything à la Giraffe: Science, Performance, and a Spectacular Body in Nineteenth-Century Vienna  (Derek Lee Barton)....Pages 77-88
Front Matter ....Pages 89-89
 Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance  (Bruce McConachie)....Pages 91-100
 Natural Disaster, Cultural Memory: Montserrat Adrift in the Black and Green Atlantic  (Kathleen M. Gough)....Pages 101-112
 Stillness in Nature: Eeo Stubblefield’s Still Dance with Anna Halprin  (Arden Thomas)....Pages 113-124
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
 British Alternative Companies and Antinuclear Plays: Eco-conscious Theater in Thatcher’s Britain  (Sara Freeman)....Pages 127-136
 Bikes, Choices, Action! Embodied Performances of Sustainability by a Traveling Theater Group  (Meg O’Shea)....Pages 137-145
 Earth First!’s “Crack the Dam” and the Aesthetics of Ecoactivist Performance  (Sarah Ann Standing)....Pages 147-155
Front Matter ....Pages 157-157
 Ecodirecting Canonical Plays  (Downing Cless)....Pages 159-168
 Devising Green Piece: A Holistic Pedagogy for Artists and Educators  (Anne Justine D’Zmura)....Pages 169-179
 Sound Ecology in the Woods: Red Riding Hood Takes an Audio Walk  (Cornelia Hoogland)....Pages 181-190
 The Labor of Greening Love’s Labour’s Lost  (Justin A. Miller)....Pages 191-200
 Theatrical Production’s Carbon Footprint  (Ian Garrett)....Pages 201-209
 Epilogue: Thinking Forward …  (Wallace Heim)....Pages 211-216
Back Matter ....Pages 217-243