Theatre & animals /

"All animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other. This cutting-edge text addresses the implications of involving animals in performance. It demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre's capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expos...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Orozco García, Lourdes (Autor)
Format: Knjiga
Izdano: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Serija:Theatre&.
Teme:
Sadržaj:
  • Foreword / Richard Gregory
  • Introduction : a night in the theatre
  • Theatre and performance studies within animal studies
  • A note on language
  • Animals in art, spectacle and text : a brief history
  • Animals, philosophy and ecology
  • Companion performers and bio-art : humans and animals share the stage
  • Towards an ethics of animals in performance
  • Risks, accidents and economics in animal performance
  • Animals and their representations in performance
  • Further reading
  • Index.