Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of MelbournePeter Eckersall is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), NYJen Parker-Starbuck is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroductionChapter 1. Climate Theatre: Ecology and Performance in a Climate Emergency by Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall and Jen Parker-StarbuckThinking about climate and performanceChapter 2. AnthropoScenes on Campus: Ecospheric Knowledge Production, by Una ChaudhuriChapter 3. Theatre and Climate Change: Constellating a New Lexicon by Minty Donald and Carl LaveryChapter 4. Hope and Trust in the Future: Human to Nonhuman in Australian Drama by Peta TaitProvocations in the Anthropocene: More-than-humanChapter 5. The Sea is on Fire: Machinic Crustaceans and Ecological Promises by Jen Parker-StarbuckChapter 6. Being Prey at the End of the World: Kris Verdonck in Conversation with Lara Stevens about his latest work, PREY (2023) by Kris Verdonck and Lara StevenChapter 7. Ecospheric Affect in Solo Pour Octopus by Sarah LucieChapter 8. Performing lunar climates by Felipe CerveraChapter 9. Re-staging Cabinets of Curiosities in the Age of Anthropocene by Cen LiuEnvironmental violence and inequityChapter 10. Slow Violence in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints by Elin DiamondChapter 11. Urban Ecologies in Performance: from Colonialism to Community in Peter Morin’s Cultural Graffiti and Fast Familiar’s The Strategy Room by Lisa WoynarskiChapter 12. Mutating Performance: On Monira Al Qadiri’s Speculative Petroaesthetics by Katia ArfaraClimate risk, activism & eco-performanceChapter 13. Performing Fading: Postvisual Dramaturgy in Durational Catastrophes by Kyoko IwakiChapter 14. Performing Across Time: Jill Orr in Conversation with Peta Tait by Jill Orr and Peta TaitChapter 15. Dramaturgy for Community Renewal and Environmental Care by Linda HassallChapter 16. Performing climate activism by Deborah HartChapter 17. Wilderness Acts: Dorothy Molter and Performing the Boundary Waters by Eero LaineCulture, community & survivalChapter 18. Hyphenated Thinking in Performance-Pedagogical Prototypes: Maria Lucia Correia’s Common Dreams Flotation School and Natural Contract Lab by Christel StalpaerChapter 19. Burning Man’s Climate: Eco-utopic Confluences and Contradictions by Sarah Ann StandingChapter 20. Tacuabé’s Bow: Surviving through Absence by Maria LitvanThe recalcitrant politics of climate changeChapter 21. Climate Control: Gender, Nature, and Stories of the Snow Queen by Clara WilchChapter 22. It doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. But it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work’: David Finnigan’s Dramaturgy of Errors by Milo HarriesChapter 23. Just and sustainable futures: How will we do it? by Anitra NelsonIndex