The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science (Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance)

Cambridge University Press, 12/3/2020
EAN 9781108700986, ISBN10: 1108700985

Paperback, 236 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Theatre has engaged with science since its beginnings in Ancient Greece. The intersection of the two disciplines has been the focus of increasing interest to scholars and students. The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science gives readers a sense of this dynamic field, using detailed analyses of plays and performances covering a wide range of areas including climate change and the environment, technology, animal studies, disease and contagion, mental health, and performance and cognition. Identifying historical tendencies that have dominated theatre's relationship with science, the volume traces many periods of theatre history across a wide geographical range. It follows a simple and clear structure of pairs and triads of chapters that cluster around a given theme so that readers get a clear sense of the current debates and perspectives.

Introduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
1. Objectivity & observation Dan Rebellato
2. Staging consciousness
Metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall
3. The experimental/experiential stage
extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre Carina Bartleet
4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit
theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery
5. The play at the end of the world
deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams
6. Bodies of knowledge
theatre and medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr
7. Pathogenic performativity
urban contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh
8. Theatres of mental health Jonathan Venn
9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike Vanden Heuvel
10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael Carklin
11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair
12. Staging cognition
how performance shows us how we think Amy Cook
13. Clouds and meteors
recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati
14. The stage hand's lament”
scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.