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Theatre About Science

TITLE
Theatre About Science

coordination
Mário Montenegro, Fernando Matos Oliveira, M. Teresa Girão da Cruz, Sara Varela Amaral, Francisca Moreira

AUTHORS

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr

Hannah Simpson

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Enric Pérez Canals

Jasper Delbecke

José Maria Vieira Mendes

Nathan D. Jerpe

Nigel Townsend

Daniel Gamito-Marques

Wanda Hamilton

Carla Almeida

Sadie Bowman

Rossella Spiga

Claudia Mignone

Andrea Brunello

Rudolf Rosa

Daniel Hrbek

Piotr Mirowski

Kory Mathewson

Boyd Branch

Antonia Tretter

Cláudia Rodrigues

Ana Cristina Tavares

Nuno Geraldo

Francisca Moreira

Mário Montenegro

Daniel Erice

Annemarie Hagenaars

Andreia Albernaz Valente

Rui Miguel Carvalho

SYNOPSIS

This volume reflects the great diversity and different perspectives related to the connections between theatre and the sciences, both regarding the performative practice and the academic thought upon that practice. It also gathers contributions from Literary Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies and Science Communication. It reveals a diverse group of practices, varied stages, different formats, different sized productions and diverse target audiences, that suggest a common quality or characteristic in these intersections that can be activated in varied contexts and with different levels of production. The diversity of voices and experiences present in this volume also carries with it a strong geographical perspective, with reports of practices in different regions of the globe, sketching a wider panorama of theatre and sciences intersections.

The book is in open access and available HERE.

AVAILABILITY
Available

YEAR
2023

ISBN
972-989-26-2506-5

TYPOLOGY
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PUBLISHER
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra

biography

Although we can trace science in theatre at least to the beginnings of modern science itself, the scholarship on this intersection started essentially in this century. It is an academic subject with, roughly, two decades. In a set of two special volumes published in the Interdisciplinary Science Reviews entitled New Directions in Theatre and Science (2013, 2014), Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Carina Bartleet, the guest editors, gathered a collection of articles which reflected the liveliness and diversity of this area (essentially in the anglophone world) and pointed out some future trends for science-related performance. These volumes, along with several meetings on the subject, such as the “Communicating Science to the Public through the Performing Arts” conference (New York / USA, 2010) and the “Performing Science: Dialogues Across Cultures” conference (Lincoln / UK, 2014) stand as recent landmarks in the study and reflection upon the field.

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