Ecologies of Theater

This collection of essays elaborates a new perspective on performance that links ecology and art practice. From the play of landscape in Gertrude Stein's theatre and the mus/ecology of John Cage, to Robert Wilson's dramaturgy as an ecology. Other essays cover Meredith Monk, Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, Heiner Muller, world events and cultural forms of expression.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Species of Thought: Ecology and the Theater	p. xiii
Ecologies of Theater I Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Robert Wilson: The Play of Landscape
Presence of Mind	p. 3
The Mus/ecology of John Cage	p. 25
Robert Wilson and the Idea of the Archive: Dramaturgy as an Ecology	p. 34
St. Gertrude	p. 49
Natural Histories of the Drama
A Cosmography of Herself: The Autobiology of Rachel Rosenthal	p. 59
Despoiled Shores: Heiner Müller's Natural History Lessons	p. 71
The State of Grace: Maria Irene Fornes at Sixty-two	p. 80
Performance World, Performance Culture	p. 87
All the Football Field's a Stage	p. 96
New England Still Life: Fornes's Evelyn Brown	p. 101
Self-portrait in Gray	p. 103
PAJ, A Personal History	p. 105
The Controversial 1985-1986 Theater Season: A Politics of Reception	p. 127
Theater and the University at the End of the Twentieth Century	p. 157
Private Landscapes
Garden/Theater	p. 181
A Hudson Valley Life	p. 185
Ecologies of Theater II Continental Drift
The Century Turning (International Events)	p. 197
Thinking about Interculturalism	p. 207
Meredith Monk's Atlas of Sound: New Opera and the American Performance Tradition	p. 224
The Forest: Robert Wilson and Interculturalism	p. 233
The Culture of Perestroika	p. 242
Berlin Theatertreffen, 1984	p. 254
Isak Dinesen in Three Parts	p. 258
The Virtual Theater of Herbert Blau	p. 277
Acts of Criticism	p. 286
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