Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments

by Lisa FitzGerald

Overview

This book proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre, one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture. Broadening the scope of theatrical environments to encompass radiophonic and digital landscapes, amongst others, Re-Place is a timely and innovative interrogation of how we understand the theatrical space.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787073593
Publisher:	Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	08/08/2017
Series:	Reimagining Ireland , #84
Edition description:	New
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lisa FitzGerald is an environmental historian and ecocritic whose research interests include the role of nature in theatre and performance, environmental art practice, eco-digital art, urban ecologies and the relationship between nature and technology. She holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway and is a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich. Her forthcoming project, Eco-Digital Art: Nature and New Media Aesthetics, examines the ecological implications of artistic representations of the natural world in digital and new media art and the emergence of «new natures» from within the digital sphere.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Conceptual Ecological Environments – J. M. Synge and the Emergence of Irish Ecodrama – «Oh to be in Atoms»: Samuel Beckett’s Material Exchanges – Ballybeg and the Conceptual Fifth Province – Digital Environments and Performance Documentation – Making a Space for Ecological Thinking.