ABSTRACT

Ecodramaturgy includes both critical and creative practices, and theorizes the intersections between performance studies and ecocriticism. Ecodramaturgy analyzes ecological performance-making, and studies the materialecological implications of cultural performances. Ecodramaturgy also examines the presentation and representation of nonhuman animals in performance, and ƒeshes out various and wideranging ecological and performance-based connections. Such links vary, but can include drawing complex connections between global warming, environmental justice, food security, globalization, watershed democracy, and the natural resources that go into theater-making. Ecodramaturgy refers also to “theatre and performance making that puts ecological reciprocity and community at the center of its theatrical and thematic intent” (Arons and May 2012, 4).