Earth Matters on Stage

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 

Autoreninfo

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.