The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling, and making art offered by animals and animality, bringing insights from theatre practice and theory to animal studies as well as exploring what animal studies can bring to the study of theatre and performance.
The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling, and making art offered by animals and animality, bringing insights from theatre practice and theory to animal studies as well as exploring what animal studies can bring to the study of theatre and performance.
Una Chaudhuri is a Professor of English, Drama, and Environmental Studies at New York University. She has lectured and published internationally on modern drama, performance theory, animal studies, and eco-criticism.
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Introduction 1. (De)Facing The Animals: Zooësis and Performance 2. Animal Rites: Performing Beyond the Human 3. Animal Geographies: Zooësis and the Space of Modern Drama 4. "Awk!": Extremity, Animality, and the Aesthetic of Awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein 5. Zoo Stories: Boundary Work in Theater History Animalizing Interlude: Zoöpolis 6. Becoming Rhinoceros: Therio-Theatricality as Problem and Promise in Western Drama 7. Bug Bytes: Insects, Information, and Interspecies Theatricality 8. The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species 9. Queering the Green Man, Reframing the Garden: Marina Zurkow's Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) and the Theater of Species 10. War Horses and Dead Tigers: Embattled Animals in a Theater of Species 11. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean Oriented Ontology
Introduction 1. (De)Facing The Animals: Zooësis and Performance 2. Animal Rites: Performing Beyond the Human 3. Animal Geographies: Zooësis and the Space of Modern Drama 4. "Awk!": Extremity, Animality, and the Aesthetic of Awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein 5. Zoo Stories: Boundary Work in Theater History Animalizing Interlude: Zoöpolis 6. Becoming Rhinoceros: Therio-Theatricality as Problem and Promise in Western Drama 7. Bug Bytes: Insects, Information, and Interspecies Theatricality 8. The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species 9. Queering the Green Man, Reframing the Garden: Marina Zurkow's Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) and the Theater of Species 10. War Horses and Dead Tigers: Embattled Animals in a Theater of Species 11. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean Oriented Ontology
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