Theatres of Compost

Abby Schroering

ISBN 10: 1032771836 / ISBN 13: 9781032771830

Published by Routledge Jun 2025, 2025

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Theatres 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.Examining a unique archive of agricultural performances-plays, theatre collectives, and activist rituals that engage questions of how humans use the land and produce food-this 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 show that what has come before can be composted: broken down and reconstituted as the fertile foundation for a more livable life in the Anthropocene. Theatres of Compost will appeal to the new but quickly growing subfield of performance and ecology. As the climate and ecological crises worsen, more scholars and students in theatre and performance will be searching for ways to make their work meaningful and relevant.This book will be a helpful resource for graduate-level courses in performance studies, performance and ecology, and the environmental humanities. 196 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Theatres of Compost
• Publisher: Routledge Jun 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032771836
• ISBN 13: 9781032771830
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 14D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 385 grams

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Synopsis

Theatres 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.

Examining a unique archive of agricultural performances―plays, theatre collectives, and activist rituals that engage questions of how humans use the land and produce food―this 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 show that what has come before can be composted: broken down and reconstituted as the fertile foundation for a more livable life in the Anthropocene. Theatres of Compost will appeal to the new but quickly growing subfield of performance and ecology. As the climate and ecological crises worsen, more scholars and students in theatre and performance will be searching for ways to make their work meaningful and relevant.

This book will be a helpful resource for graduate-level courses in performance studies, performance and ecology, and the environmental humanities.

About the Author

Abby Schroering (she/her) earned a doctorate in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University in the City of New York. Her writingcan be found in Modern Drama, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, American Theatre Magazine, Public Books, and elsewhere.