Climate Theatre

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1. Climate Theatre: Ecology and Performance in a Climate Emergency by Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall and Jen Parker-Starbuck

Thinking about climate and performance

Chapter 2. AnthropoScenes on Campus: Ecospheric Knowledge Production, by Una Chaudhuri

Chapter 3. Theatre and Climate Change: Constellating a New Lexicon by Minty Donald and Carl Lavery

Chapter 4. Hope and Trust in the Future: Human to Nonhuman in Australian Drama by Peta Tait

Provocations in the Anthropocene: More-than-human

Chapter 5. The Sea is on Fire: Machinic Crustaceans and Ecological Promises by Jen Parker-Starbuck

Chapter 6. Being Prey at the End of the World: Kris Verdonck in Conversation with Lara Stevens about his latest work, PREY (2023) by Kris Verdonck and Lara Steven

Chapter 7. Ecospheric Affect in Solo Pour Octopus by Sarah Lucie

Chapter 8. Performing lunar climates by Felipe Cervera

Chapter 9. Re-staging Cabinets of Curiosities in the Age of Anthropocene by Cen Liu

Environmental violence and inequity

Chapter 10. Slow Violence in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and Saints by Elin Diamond

Chapter 11. Urban Ecologies in Performance: from Colonialism to Community in Peter Morin's Cultural Graffiti and Fast Familiar's The Strategy Room by Lisa Woynarski

Chapter 12. Mutating Performance: On Monira Al Qadiri's Speculative Petroaesthetics by Katia Arfara

Climate risk, activism & eco-performance

Chapter 13. Performing Fading: Postvisual Dramaturgy in Durational Catastrophes by Kyoko Iwaki

Chapter 14. Performing Across Time: Jill Orr in Conversation with Peta Tait by Jill Orr and Peta Tait

Chapter 15. Dramaturgy for Community Renewal and Environmental Care by Linda Hassall

Chapter 16. Performing climate activism by Deborah Hart

Chapter 17. Wilderness Acts: Dorothy Molter and Performing the Boundary Waters by Eero Laine

Culture, community & survival

Chapter 18. Hyphenated Thinking in Performance-Pedagogical Prototypes: Maria Lucia Correia's Common Dreams Flotation School and Natural Contract Lab by Christel Stalpaer

Chapter 19. Burning Man's Climate: Eco-utopic Confluences and Contradictions by Sarah Ann Standing

Chapter 20. Tacuabe's Bow: Surviving through Absence by Maria Litvan

The recalcitrant politics of climate change

Chapter 21. Climate Control: Gender, Nature, and Stories of the Snow Queen by Clara Wilch

Chapter 22. It doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. But it doesn't matter that it doesn't work': David Finnigan's Dramaturgy of Errors by Milo Harries

Chapter 23. Just and sustainable futures: How will we do it? by Anitra Nelson

Index