Theatre and Animals

Lourdes Orozco is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK. She co-edited two special issues of Contemporary Theatre Review focussing on Catalan Theatre and Flemish Theatre, and is currently working on an edited collection, Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices, with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck.

Series Editors' Preface.- Introduction: A Night in the Theatre.- 1. Theatre and Performance: the 'Odd Fish' within Animal Studies.- 2. Animals in Art, Spectacle and Text: A Brief History.- 3. Animals, Philosophy and Ecology.- 4. Companion Performers and Bio Art: Humans and Animals Share the Stage.- 5. Towards an Ethics of Animals in Performance.- 6. Does the Animal Want to be There?: Agency and Responsibility.- 7. Risks, Accidents and Economics in Animal Performance.- 8. Animals and their Representations in Performance.- Further Reading.- Index.