Human /nature: Eco -theatre politics and performance.
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Title
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Human /nature: Eco -theatre politics and performance.
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Identifier
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AAI3310644
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identifier
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3310644
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Creator
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Standing, Sarah.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marvin A. Carlson
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Date
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2008
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater
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Abstract
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The intersection of theatre and ecology (eco-theatre) is a new sub-genre of theatre and performance studies. Eco-theatre, I argue, sheds important light on ecological issues, and also furthers the theatrical paradigm and its attendant theory. Specifically, this dissertation investigates work that uses nature as a performative element as a generative combination for both theatre and ecology. I also argue that this particular kind of work provides an opportunity to reexamine the human/nature relationship, shedding light on alternate possibilities.;The practitioners profiled in this dissertation: R. Murray Schafer, Greenpeace International, and Rachel Rosenthal, each have different foci, concerns and methods, but they all practice versions of eco-theatre that use nature as a performative element. R. Murray Schafer seeks to reintegrate the human into the natural, Greenpeace seeks often to separate the two (legislating for "wild" and "untouched" areas), and Rachel Rosenthal sets the site of the conflict and integration within the human body itself. Looking at how theatre in the United States and Canada is investigating ecology shows us a changing relationship between humans and nature. We need to find different ways of relating to nature in order to conceive of new solutions to the very real environmental problems occurring today. Theatre is a flexible and useful tool for just such a venture.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
