Theatre & animals /
"All animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other. This cutting-edge text addresses the implications of involving animals in performance. It demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre's capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expos...
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Richard Gregory
- Introduction : a night in the theatre
- Theatre and performance studies within animal studies
- A note on language
- Animals in art, spectacle and text : a brief history
- Animals, philosophy and ecology
- Companion performers and bio-art : humans and animals share the stage
- Towards an ethics of animals in performance
- Risks, accidents and economics in animal performance
- Animals and their representations in performance
- Further reading
- Index.
