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Animal Presence in Contemporary British Theatre: Beyond the Human

Animal Presence in Contemporary British Theatre: Beyond the Human

Soncini, Sara
Taylor-Batty, Mark
Brater, Enoch

Hardcover

Series: Methuen Drama Engage

Theater HistoryPlaysTechnical Theater

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 4, 2027

ISBN10: 1350503142
ISBN13: 9781350503144
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Feb 4 2027
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The first comprehensive study of the presence of animals in contemporary British drama and theatre, and their thought-provoking intersections with the human characters and actors with whom they have increasingly come to share the stage.

Why have animals become so ubiquitous on the contemporary stage? What are theatre-makers trying to achieve by increasingly populating their landscapes with nonhuman figures and, indeed, actors? Taking stock of the expanding presence, role and agency of animals in British theatre and drama over recent decades, this book investigates the payoffs - conceptual, cognitive, aesthetic and political - of an art practice that purposefully relocates the animal within a culturally powerful anthropocentric stronghold. In their simultaneous engagement with the boundaries of subjectivity and the boundaries of theatre, the plays considered in this volume provide a larger framework for thinking humanity beyond the human.

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