Theatres of Dust

Climate Gothic Analysis in Contemporary Australian Drama and Performance Landscapes

Linda Hassall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

134 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-6158-7 (ISBN)

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Through a contemporary Gothic lens, the book explores theatre theories, processes and practices that explore; the impacts of continuing drought and natural disaster, the conflicts concerning resource extraction and mining and current political debates focussed on climate change denial. While these issues can be argued from various political and economic platforms, theatrical investigations as discussed here suggest that scholars and theatre makers are becoming empowered to dramaturgically explore the ecological challenges we face now and may face in the future. In doing so the book proposes that theatre can engage in not only climate change analysis and discussion but can develop climate literacies in a broader socio-cultural context.

Linda Hassall is Field of Study Coordinator Drama Major at Griffith University, Australia. She is a theatre scholar and an award-winning playwright (Post Office Rose 2008) and director (Salvation 2013). Linda worked in the performing arts for 25 years before joining Griffith University. Her research interest lies is in the binary between performance landscapes and climate change themes and aims to provoke social discussion and cultural change.

Chapter 1: Theatres of Dust.- Chapter 2: Mutating the Climate Gothic into Australian Gothic.- Chapter 3: The Monstrous Gothic.- Chapter 4: Gothic Atmosphere and Extinction.- Chapter 5: The Mythic Space.- Chapter 6: Romatic Legacies: Eco-cricism in Australian Performance.- Chapter 7: Greening Theatre Landscapes – Sustainable Australian Theatre Production.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Theatres of Hope.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 134 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Schlagworte	Australian Playwrighting • Climate Change Performance in Australia • Contemporary Performance Culture • Eco criticism in theatre • Gothic Theatre and ecolological analysis • Performing Ecologies and Landscape Gothic • post-colonial theatre
ISBN-10	981-16-6158-8 / 9811661588
ISBN-13	978-981-16-6158-7 / 9789811661587
Zustand	Neuware