What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance.
| ISBN: | 9781787073593 |
| Publication date: | 8th August 2017 |
| Author: | Lisa FitzGerald |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Reimagining Ireland |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards) Literary studies: plays and playwrights Environmentalist thought and ideology |
What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance.
Re-Place features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Environmentalist thought and ideology
Re-Place is available in Paperback
Re-Place was written by Lisa FitzGerald and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Re-Place has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Reimagining Ireland series
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