Towards an Ecocritical Theatre: Playing the Anthropocene

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of changing interactions between humans and the nonhuman world.

To explore these problems, the book investigates international Anglophone plays and performances by Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, An...