The Cambridge companion to theatre and science / edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.
| Call Number | 808.2/936 |
| Title | The Cambridge companion to theatre and science / edited by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge companions to theatre and performance |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021). |
| Contents | Objectivity & observation / Dan Rebellato -- Staging consciousness : metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of Beware of pity / Jane Goodall -- The experimental/experiential stage : extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre / Carina Bartleet -- A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit : theatre in the anthropocene / Carl Lavery -- The play at the end of the world : Deke Weaver's Unreliable bestiaryand and the theatre of extinction / Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams -- Bodies of knowledge : theatre and medical science / Stanton B. Garner, Jr. -- Pathogenic performativity : urban contagion and fascist affect / Fintan Walsh -- Theatres of mental health / Jonathan Venn -- Devised theatre and the performance of science / Mike Vanden Heuvel -- Theatre and science as social intervention / Michael Carklin -- Acting and science / Rhonda Blair Rhonda Blair -- Staging cognition : how performance shows us how we think / Amy Cook -- Clouds and meteors : recreating wonder on the early modern stage / Frédérique Aït-Touati -- "The stage hand's lament" : scenography, technology and off-stage labour / Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Added Author | Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten, 1966- editor. |
| Subject | Drama History and criticism. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Theaters Stage-setting and scenery. Scientists in literature. Science in literature. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021). |
| Contents | Objectivity & observation / Dan Rebellato -- Staging consciousness : metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of Beware of pity / Jane Goodall -- The experimental/experiential stage : extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre / Carina Bartleet -- A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit : theatre in the anthropocene / Carl Lavery -- The play at the end of the world : Deke Weaver's Unreliable bestiaryand and the theatre of extinction / Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams -- Bodies of knowledge : theatre and medical science / Stanton B. Garner, Jr. -- Pathogenic performativity : urban contagion and fascist affect / Fintan Walsh -- Theatres of mental health / Jonathan Venn -- Devised theatre and the performance of science / Mike Vanden Heuvel -- Theatre and science as social intervention / Michael Carklin -- Acting and science / Rhonda Blair Rhonda Blair -- Staging cognition : how performance shows us how we think / Amy Cook -- Clouds and meteors : recreating wonder on the early modern stage / Frédérique Aït-Touati -- "The stage hand's lament" : scenography, technology and off-stage labour / Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr. |
| Subject | Drama History and criticism. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Theaters Stage-setting and scenery. Scientists in literature. Science in literature. |
| Multimedia |