Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
- Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
- The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Objectivity and Observation
- 2 Staging Consciousness
- 3 The Experimental/Experiential Stage
- 4 A Cave, a Skull, and a Little Piece of Grit
- 5 The Play at the End of the World
- 6 Bodies of Knowledge
- 7 Pathogenic Performativity
- 8 Theatres of Mental Health
- 9 Devised Theatre and the Performance of Science
- 10 Theatre and Science as Social Intervention
- 11 Acting and Science
- 12 Staging Cognition
- 13 Clouds and Meteors
- 14 ‘The Stage Hand’s Lament’
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
- Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
- The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Objectivity and Observation
- 2 Staging Consciousness
- 3 The Experimental/Experiential Stage
- 4 A Cave, a Skull, and a Little Piece of Grit
- 5 The Play at the End of the World
- 6 Bodies of Knowledge
- 7 Pathogenic Performativity
- 8 Theatres of Mental Health
- 9 Devised Theatre and the Performance of Science
- 10 Theatre and Science as Social Intervention
- 11 Acting and Science
- 12 Staging Cognition
- 13 Clouds and Meteors
- 14 ‘The Stage Hand’s Lament’
- Index
Summary
An audience follows a park ranger into the woods looking for wolves … A young Danish prince contemplates a skull in a dug-up grave … A wheelchair-bound blind man spars verbally with the carer who is about to leave him … A woman with a deformed spine is murdered by a fanatical doctor who wants to dissect her corpse … A bald, cancer-ridden woman recites the poetry of Donne as she lies dying … Two pairs of couples in Regency dress dance a waltz as the lights gradually fade …
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- The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science , pp. 1 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020