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This chapter includes essays on the Ecocide workshop and the Carla and Lewis production process from Josh Hoglund, the co-director, Sunita Prasad, the video designer, and Shonni Enelow, the playwright, and a roundtable discussion with Meng Ai and Nick Cregor, performers. Hoglund’s essay describes the guiding ideas behind the directorial process and the way he worked with actors. Prasad’s documents her working process, personal history with the material, and decision to use GIF animations for Carla and Lewis’s drawings. Meng Ai and Nick Cregor describe the unique challenges of performing the non-human and their discoveries throughout the workshop and production process of how to do so. Shonni Enelow explains her writing process and the play’s intertextual resonances with theories of modern and postmodern drama.
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See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, trans. Chris Andrews (New York: New Directions, 2006), 66.
Heiner Müller, Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage, ed. and trans. Carl Weber (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1984), 54.
Gertrude Stein, Last Operas and Plays, ed. Carl Van Vechten (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), XLVI.
Jean Genet, The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews, ed. Albert Dichy, trans. Jeff Fort (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), 48.
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Hoglund, J., Prasad, S., Cregor, N., Ai, M., Enelow, S. (2014). Staging Carla and Lewis. In: Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project: A Casebook. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137396624_4
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