Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis. This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its conventional object, the human narrative, broadly considered.In order to respond ethically to the climate crisis, it must expand its range to include performing as/in response to the nonhuman.Conrad Alexandrowicz concisely explores theoretical approaches to the other-than-human, found in the work of, among others, Jane Bennett, Timothy Morton, Rosi Braidotti, and Cary Wolfe.The implications of this move are far-reaching and commence with displacing realism from its traditional position of dominance.The practices of 20th century physical theatre visionaries such as Tadeusz Kantor, Jacques Lecoq, and Jerzy Grotowski are revisited and reconsidered for their applicability to forms of theatre that