Theatres of Compost by Abby Schroering - 9781032771830

Theatres of CompostPerformance and Ecology for the Anthropocene\nAuthor(s): Abby Schroering\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032771830, 978-1032771830\nSynopsis\nTheatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.\n\nExamining a unique archive of agricultural performancesplays, theatre collectives, and activist rituals that engage questions of how humans use the land and produce foodthis book lays out a framework for how theatre and performance contribute to a cultural shift toward ecological awareness. Theatre of compost is performance that directly engages ideologies of exploitation, mass production, and accumulation. Instead of discarding the forms, themes, methodologies, and histories that have perpetuated ecological destruction, the case studies in this book sho.