Sustainable Theatre: Theory, Context, Practice av Iphigenia Taxopoulou

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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.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 G¿teborg 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¿.Spanning almost three decades, the book approaches the topic from multiple angles and through an international perspectiv