The stage lives of animals
Subtitle: zooësis and performance
By: Una Chaudhuri
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781138818453; 9781138818477
Subjects: Animals in the performing arts; Animal welfare; Human-animal relationships in the performing arts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: (De)facing the animals: zooësis and performance; title: Animal rites: performing beyond the human; title: Animal geographies: zooësis and the space of modern drama; title: "Awk!": extremity, animality, and the aesthetic of awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein; title: Zoo stories: boundary work in theater history; title: Animalizing interlude: zoöpolis. Becoming rhinoceros: therio-theatricality as problem and promise in western drama; title: Bug bytes: insects, information, and interspecies theatricality; title: The silence of the polar bears: performing (climate) change in the theater of species; title: Queering the green man, reframing the garden: Marina Zurkow's Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) and the theater of species; title: War horses and dead tigers: embattled animals in a theater of species; title: Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters: performing an ocean oriented ontology.