Sustainable Theatre: Theory Context Practice

<p>How does the world of theatre and the performing arts intersect with the climate and environmental crisis? This timely book is the first comprehensive account of the sector's response to the defining issue of our time. <p/>The book documents a sector in transition and presents theatre professionals practitioners and organizations with a synthesis of information knowledge and expertise to guide them to their own endorsement of sustainable thinking and practice. It is illustrated with inspiring case studies and interviews from London's National Theatre to Sydney Theatre Company to the Göteborg Opera and the American Repertory Theatre. These foreground the work of pioneering institutions and individual practitioners whose artistic ingenuity creative activism and sense of public mission have given shape content and purpose to what we can now call 'sustainable theatre'. <p/>Spanning almost three decades the book approaches the topic from multiple angles and through an international perspective recording how climate and environmental concerns have been expressed in cultural policy arts leadership and organizational ethics; in the greening of infrastructure and daily operations; in the individual and institutional practice of sustainable theatre-making; in performing arts education; and in touring practices and international collaboration. It investigates too how the climate crisis influences theatre as a story-teller - on stage and beyond. <p/>Written by a leading expert in the field of culture and environmental sustainability and distilling many years of research and hands-on experience <i>Sustainable Theatre: Theory Context Practice</i> is intended to be relevant and useful to professionals involved in the theatre and performing arts sector in many different capacities: from policy-makers arts leaders and managers to administrators technicians artists scholars and educators.</p>