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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 15.00cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781108700986ISBN 10: 1108700985 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 03 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 1. Objectivity & observation Dan Rebellato; 2. Staging consciousness: Metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall; 3. The experimental/experiential stage: extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre Carina Bartleet; 4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit: theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery; 5. The play at the end of the world: deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams; 6. Bodies of knowledge: theatre and medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 7. Pathogenic performativity: urban contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh; 8. Theatres of mental health Jonathan Venn; 9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike Vanden Heuvel; 10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael Carklin; 11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair; 12. Staging cognition: how performance shows us how we think Amy Cook; 13. Clouds and meteors: recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati; 14. The stage hand's lament”: scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.Reviews'This is a mind-expanding book. It not only shows that theatre and science have been interacting for centuries but offers a series of pathfinding essays on subjects ranging from mental health to plague and infection. It establishes beyond doubt that theatre and science are indissolubly linked and challenges, informs and stimulates the reader at every turn.' Michael Billington 'The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science is a masterpiece of interdisciplinarity, bringing together any number of disciplines perhaps formerly thought to have nothing in common. And no one is currently better situated than Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr to undertake such a project. The choice of essay topics is varied and expansive, and the selected contributors are drawn from an international list of the most exciting thinkers currently pursuing ways to see, understand, and enjoy the rich interplay between theatre and science.' William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 'This Companion is a powerful contribution to the field. From experiments to the Anthropocene, bestiaries to bodies, pathogens to meteors to back-stage technologies, it demonstrates the enormous range of contemporary thinking on the connections running between theatre and science - and delivers this in a way that manages to be both invigorating and deeply enjoyable.' Tiffany Watt-Smith, Queen Mary University of London 'This is a mind-expanding book. It not only shows that theatre and science have been interacting for centuries but offers a series of pathfinding essays on subjects ranging from mental health to plague and infection. It establishes beyond doubt that theatre and science are indissolubly linked and challenges, informs and stimulates the reader at every turn.' Michael Billington 'The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science is a masterpiece of interdisciplinarity, bringing together any number of disciplines perhaps formerly thought to have nothing in common. And no one is currently better situated than Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr to undertake such a project. The choice of essay topics is varied and expansive, and the selected contributors are drawn from an international list of the most exciting thinkers currently pursuing ways to see, understand, and enjoy the rich interplay between theatre and science.' William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 'This Companion is a powerful contribution to the field. From experiments to the Anthropocene, bestiaries to bodies, pathogens to meteors to back-stage technologies, it demonstrates the enormous range of contemporary thinking on the connections running between theatre and science - and delivers this in a way that manages to be both invigorating and deeply enjoyable.' Tiffany Watt-Smith, Queen Mary University of London '… a compact, wide-ranging survey of some of the key issues in this diverse set of interactions … these assured, stimulating essays offer a wide-ranging snapshot of current trends in how science touches theatre and vice versa.' Jonathan W. Marshall, Performance Research Author InformationKirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016), and Twentieth-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern (2016), coedited with Laura Marcus and Michèle Mendelssohn and shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association book prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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