There is not any doubt that Climate Change is a reality, and people are a significant factor in global warming. Scientists understand a man as the essential geological agent of our era. According to contemporary phenomena of growing interest in the environment, artists from the theatre field have started to jump into the issue and practise the “green”. Hence, the contemporary theatre offers a spectrum of eco-approaches that make a step towards environmental thinking. The paper focuses on these artistic works on the level of theatre studies – it contemplates the methods of theatre researchers, which are able to help with analysing the performances interwoven with environmental topics. It shows how the application of some existing methodology could help to understand the drama, performance, or performative event from an ecological point of view and try to find new interdisciplinary ways for contemporary theatre research.
Since 2016, Juráni had been working as the chief editor of the kød journal. At the turn of the years 2017 and 2018, he visited Ruhr Universität in Bochum, Germany, where he led a seminar about the effects of ecology on performative arts. He also worked with the Armada Theater as a mentor on environmental issues. As an editor and curator, Juráni regularly collaborates on the publication of Slovak and Czech festival journals and programme choices. At the moment, he works for the Theatre Institute Bratislava and participates in the Institute’s projects – Green Drama Initiative, The Ecology and Environment in Performing Arts conference. He is also a member of the young criticism platform called Mloki.sk and a PhD student at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His doctoral research is oriented on the approaches and influences of environmental thinking in contemporary theatre; how the old medium reacts to the new challenges.
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