Earth Matters tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the 20th century. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters illuminate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the 20th century in the US.
Earth Matters tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the 20th century. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters illuminate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the 20th century in the US.
Theresa J. May is the author of Salmon Is Everything: Community-based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed , the co-editor of Readings in Performance and Ecology , the co-author of Greening Up Our Houses , and the co-founder and artistic director of the EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival. She is an associate professor of theater at the University of Oregon.
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Acknowledgements Preface From Ecotheatre to Ecodramaturgy Introduction Where Has Theater been while the World's been Falling Apart? Chapter 1 Stories that Kill ~ The Frontier as Ecological Ethos in Augustin Daly's Horizon and William F.Cody's Wild West: The Drama of Civilization Chapter 2 Sabine Wilderness ~ David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide Chapter 3 Dynamos, Dust and Discontent ~ Eugene O'Neal's Dynamo, and the Federal Theatre Project's Living Chapter 4 We Know We Belong to the Land ~ Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Chapter 5 (Re)Claiming Home ~ Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun; Luis Valdez' Bernabé; Sam Shepard's Buried Child Chapter 6 Stories in the Land / Legacies in the Body ~ Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle; Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and Saints; Anne Galjour's Alligator Tales Chapter 7 Kinship, Community and Climate Change ~ Marie Clements' Burning Vision and Chantal Bilodeau's Sila Epilogue Theater as a Site of Civic Generosity Index
Acknowledgements Preface From Ecotheatre to Ecodramaturgy Introduction Where Has Theater been while the World's been Falling Apart? Chapter 1 Stories that Kill ~ The Frontier as Ecological Ethos in Augustin Daly's Horizon and William F.Cody's Wild West: The Drama of Civilization Chapter 2 Sabine Wilderness ~ David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide Chapter 3 Dynamos, Dust and Discontent ~ Eugene O'Neal's Dynamo, and the Federal Theatre Project's Living Chapter 4 We Know We Belong to the Land ~ Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Chapter 5 (Re)Claiming Home ~ Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun; Luis Valdez' Bernabé; Sam Shepard's Buried Child Chapter 6 Stories in the Land / Legacies in the Body ~ Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle; Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and Saints; Anne Galjour's Alligator Tales Chapter 7 Kinship, Community and Climate Change ~ Marie Clements' Burning Vision and Chantal Bilodeau's Sila Epilogue Theater as a Site of Civic Generosity Index
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