Caught in the Anthropocene: Theatres of Trees, Place and Politics.
This article investigates live performance in the broad geo-historical context of the Anthropocene, a contested term in recent scholarship, but one that offers a breadth of focus on human relations with its coexistent non-human other. These interrelations are examined through a range of theatrical a...
| Publicado en: | Theatre Research International Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 7 - 28 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2022
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