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Eco-theater

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Ecotheater, eco-theatre, or ecological theater, is a dramatic genre concerned with environmental issues. The genre was first proposed by scholar Una Chaudhuri in a 1994 issue of Yale's Theatre Magazine,[1] who located it as a key concern in Western Canonical dramas, including Henrik Ibsen's the Wild Duck (1884), and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (1896). Since then, Chaudhuri's theorization has paved the way for the field of Performance and Ecology, an interdisciplinary area between Theatre and Performance Studies and the Environmental Humanities. It has also offered a lens with which to study works written before the advent of modern environmentalism in the 1970s[2][3]. Alongside this stream of scholarship, the number of works by playwrights, solo artists, and companies focused on this topic has boomed in recent decades.

Notable works

The following list is not exhaustive. Works are grouped by period and dated by first production unless otherwise noted.

Before 1900

1900–1945

1945–1979

1980–1999

2000–2009

2010–2019

2020–present

  • A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (2020) by Miranda Rose Hall
  • Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying (2020) by Jessica Huang
  • Somewhere (2020) by Marisela Treviño Orta
  • Heavy Weather (2020) by Lizzie Nunnery
  • Don't Worry, Be Happy (2020) by Kevin Dyer
  • Like There's No Tomorrow (2020), devised at the Belgrade Theatre
  • The Visitors (2020) by Jane Harrison
  • Cullud wattah (2021) by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
  • Walden (2021) by Amy Berryman
  • The Trials (2021) by Dawn King
  • Paradise (2021) by Kae Tempest, after Sophocles
  • Extinct (2021) by April De Angelis
  • The Forcings (2021) by Kevin Artigue
  • Not the End of the World (2021) by Chris Bush
  • How to Save the World When You're a Young Carer and Broke (2021) by Nessah Muthy
  • Cómo Convertirse en Piedra (2021) by Manuela Infante
  • Trash Talks with Polly Mermaid and Basurana (2021), puppetry by Glass Half Full Theatre
  • Mammelephant (2022) by Lanxing Fu
  • Was Ihr Nicht Sehen Konnt (2023) by Manuela Infante
  • The Apiary (2024) by Kate Douglas
  • Kyoto (2024) by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
  • VAMPYR (2024) by Manuela Infante
  • Redwood (2025) by Tina Landau and Kate Diaz
  • Bigfoot (2026) by Amber Ruffin, Kevin Sciretta and David A. Schmoll
  • Basura (2026) by Gloria Estefan and Emily Estefan

History and Development

The earliest documentation of the genre as such includes journalistic coverage by Lynn Jacobson[4] and a festival by Larry K. Fried and Theresa May called Theatre in the Wild [5] . The 1994 issue of Theater paved the way for the genre to be recognized as such, leading to increasing scholarly and artistic interest in it.

References

  1. ↑ Chaudhuri, Una (1994-02-01). ""There Must Be a Lot of Fish in That Lake": Toward an Ecological Theater". Theater. 25 (1): 23–31. doi:10.1215/01610775-25-1-23. ISSN 0161-0775.
  2. ↑ Cless, Downing (2010). Ecology and environment in European drama. Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-85181-4. Search this book on
  3. ↑ May, Theresa J. (2020-08-09). Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003028888. ISBN 978-1-003-02888-8. Search this book on
  4. ↑ Jacobson, Lynn (February 1st, 1992). "Green Theatre: Confessions of an Eco-Reporter". American Theater. Retrieved September 6th, 2026. Check date values in: |access-date=, |date= (help)
  5. ↑ May, Theresa (1999). ""Bahktin on Site: Chronotopes in Theatre in the Wild's Dragon Island."" (PDF). Retrieved Sep 6, 2026.


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