• Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism

    Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism


the Black Theatre Review takes up the theme of environmentalism for Vol. 2.2. The contributors to this issue and some of the agents they cover through their work offer readers several considerations for why theatre as a medium is an important mode through which to explore this theme, namely its power to raise awareness about environmental issues, spark dialogue, and encourage audiences to act within their communities.

Front Matter


Editor-in-Chief: Introduction to the Black Theatre Review, Environmentalism

Editor-in-Chief: Introduction to the Black Theatre Review, Environmentalism

Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • i-ii

Articles


Prefiguring the Environmental Justice Movement: the  Ecodramaturgy of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Prefiguring the Environmental Justice Movement: the Ecodramaturgy of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Theresa J. May

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • 1-18

Bound to the Banana: Re-Evaluating the Discourse Surrounding Josephine Baker’s “Banana Dance”

Bound to the Banana: Re-Evaluating the Discourse Surrounding Josephine Baker’s “Banana Dance”

Stephanie Engel

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • 19-33

Performance for Environmental Sustainability in Uganda: A Collective Community Engagement Approach through Theatre for Development

Keneth Bamuturaki

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • 34-43

Book Reviews


A Review of Towards an Ecocritical Theatre: Playing the Anthropocene

A Review of Towards an Ecocritical Theatre: Playing the Anthropocene

Iris Goode-Middleton

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • 44-47

Notes from the Field


Dirty Work: An Ecocritical Reflection on Human Feces as a Tool of Protest and Performance

Dirty Work: An Ecocritical Reflection on Human Feces as a Tool of Protest and Performance

Gibson Alessandro Cima

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • 48-51

Artistic Practice as Scholarship


Waters Wisdoms: Honoring and Reclaiming Indigenous and Ancestral Practices in the Face of Climate Disaster

Waters Wisdoms: Honoring and Reclaiming Indigenous and Ancestral Practices in the Face of Climate Disaster

Ann Mazzocca Bellecci

2024-03-26 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2024 • Environmentalism • 52-53