Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd : Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage (Hardcover)

Introduction: Greening the Absurd - Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh 1. Caryl Churchill's 'Dark Ecology' - Elaine Aston 2. The Garden in the Machine: Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, and the American Absurd - Stephen Bottoms 3. Mutant Bodies: the Absurd in Eastern European Experience - Ralph Yarrow 4. Recycling Beckett - Joe Kelleher 5. Rare Butterflies, Persecution, and Pinball Machines: Environment, Subjectivity, and Society in the Theatre of Arthur Adamov - Franc Chamberlain 6. Ionesco's Green Lesson: Toxic Environments, Ecologies of Air - Carl Lavery 7. Nettles in the Rose Garden: Ecocentrism in Jean Genet's Theatre - Clare Finburgh 8. The Secluded Voice: The Impossible Call Home in Early Pinter - Mark Taylor Batty and Carl Lavery Epilogue: David Williams Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index