Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology, Environment and American Theatre.
Routledge/Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2021.
Read the Preface and Introduction to Earth Matters on Stage
“Every passionate page of this book and each of its illuminating readings of the ecotheatrical American canon that it unearths, critiques, and celebrates, are deeply rooted in Theresa May’s fierce loyalty to – and decades-long leadership of – the American eco-theater movement. Her firm grasp of the vital connection between story-telling and policy making, alongside her inspiring conviction that the theatrical imagination is an ecological force, makes her exposition of “eco-dramaturgy” as practically valuable as it is theoretically rigorous. Equally importantly, the book’s historical range makes it a rare contribution to the urgent task of reckoning with the culturally embedded, deep-structural causes of the climate crisis. It is hard to imagine a timelier or a more ground-healing work in our field today.”
Una Chaudhuri, author of
Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama
