Re-place : Irish theatre environments / Lisa FitzGerald.
By: FitzGerald, Lisa (Environmental historian) [author]
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BookSeries: Reimagining Ireland: 84.Publisher: Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: x, 202 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781787073593 (paperback).Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation | Friel, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation | Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909 -- Criticism and interpretation | Theater -- Ireland -- History | English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Ecocriticism in literatureDDC classification: 792.09415 Summary: "What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance." -- back cover.
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What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
"What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance." -- back cover.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. vii)
- Preface (p. ix)
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Conceptual Ecological Environments (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 J. M. Synge and the Emergence of Irish Ecodrama (p. 21)
- Chapter 3 'Oh to be in Atoms': Samuel Beckett's Material Exchanges (p. 63)
- Chapter 4 Ballybeg and the Conceptual Fifth Province (p. 109)
- Chapter 5 Digital Environments and Performance Documentation (p. 145)
- Chapter 6 Making a Space for Ecological Thinking (p. 175)
- Bibliography (p. 183)
- Index (p. 199)