Science in Performance
Theatre and the Politics of Engagement
Published on 18. August 2020
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7190-9920-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change.
The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science.
Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science.
Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 black & white figures, 2 tables
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-9920-5 (9780719099205)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Simon Parry is a Lecturer in Drama and Arts Management at the University of Manchester -- .
Content
Preface: about this book
1 Science in performance: convergence, emergence, divergence
2 Laughing at science in the theatre: Gob Squad, a funny robot and dancing scientists
3 Speculative theatricality: dystopian performatives and vertigo aesthetics in popular theatre
4 Theatre, education and the politics of life itself: Theatre of Debate
5 Commoning sense: translating globalised knowledge in performance
6 Performing cosmopolitics -- .
1 Science in performance: convergence, emergence, divergence
2 Laughing at science in the theatre: Gob Squad, a funny robot and dancing scientists
3 Speculative theatricality: dystopian performatives and vertigo aesthetics in popular theatre
4 Theatre, education and the politics of life itself: Theatre of Debate
5 Commoning sense: translating globalised knowledge in performance
6 Performing cosmopolitics -- .