Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis
Conrad Alexandrowicz, David Fancy (ed.)
ISBN 9780367541545
Routledge
226 Pages
£120.00
PRESENTATION
This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis.
Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy present an innovative re-imagining of the ways in which the art of theatre, and the pedagogical apparatus that feeds and supports it, might contribute to global efforts in climate protest and action. Comprised of contributions from a broad range of scholars and practitioners, the volume explores whether an adherence to aesthetic values can be preserved when art is instrumentalized as protest and considers theatre as a tool to be employed by the School Strike for Climate movement. Considering perspectives from areas including performance, directing, production, design, theory and history, this book will prompt vital discussions which could transform curricular design and implementation in the light of the climate crisis.
Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of climate change and theatre and performance studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: In the Midst of a Pandemic and a Reckoning on Racial Injustice
Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy
Part 1: Applied Theatre/Drama in Education
1. Nurturing Hopeful Agency: Applied Theatre Pedagogy in Collaboration with Social Movements
Rachel Rhoades
2. Strategies for Climate Crisis Adaptation: Bringing Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems Together through Theatre
Lara Aysal
3. Voices We Carry within Us: A Trialogue about Climate Change, Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Activism
Lara Aysal and Dennis D. Gupa in Conversation with Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta
4. Voicing Student Perspectives in the Transformation of Theatre Pedagogy for Climate Justice
Alexandra (Sasha) Kovacs
Part 2: Playwriting and Collective Storytelling
5. Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy in Conversation with Caridad Svich
Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy
6. Devising in the Era of Climate Crisis: Staging the "Eco-Performative"
Conrad Alexandrowicz
7. Anthropogenic Anxiety and the Pedagogy of Climate Crisis in Wake Up Everyone
Gloria Akayi Asoloko and Soji Cole
8. "Can We Talk?" Forum Theatre as Rehearsal for Climate Change Interventions
Derek Davidson
Part 3: Actor Training
9. "Eco-Atonement": Performing the Nonhuman
Conrad Alexandrowicz
10. The Actor as Geoartist
David Fancy
Part 4: Theatre and Performance Studies/Praxis
11. Drawing What You Can’t See: Meditations on Theatre and Derangement
Mary Anderson
12. Coproducing Mimesis
Katrina Dunn and Malus Fusca
Part 5: Design and Production
13. Eco-Scenography and Sustainable Theatre Production
David Fancy in Conversation with Tanja Beer and David Vivian
Epilogue: Theatre Pedagogy and the Climate Crisis--a Manifesto
Conrad Alexandrowicz, Mary Anderson, Gloria Akayi Asoloko, Lara Aysal, Tanja Beer, Soji Cole, Derek Davidson, Katrina Dunn, David Fancy, Dennis D. Gupa, Alexandra (Sasha) Kovacs, Rachel Rhoades, Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, Caridad Svich, and David Vivian