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Theatre and Animals

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This text addresses demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre’s capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expose theatre’s negotiations with wider ethical, social and economic questions.

Artist / Author Dr Lourdes Orozco
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-0230361430
Reference P3020
Date 2013
Type Publication

Keywords

animal animal performance Bartabas circus Donna Haraway Jacques Derrida Mal Pelo Rachel Rosenthal Romeo Castellucci taxidermy

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