Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016), and Twentieth-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern (2016), coedited with Laura Marcus and Michèle Mendelssohn and shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association book prize.

• Introduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 1. Objectivity & observation Dan Rebellato; 2. Staging consciousness: Metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall; 3. The experimental/experiential stage: extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre Carina Bartleet; 4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit: theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery; 5. The play at the end of the world: deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams; 6. Bodies of knowledge: theatre and medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 7. Pathogenic performativity: urban contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh; 8. Theatres of mental health Jonathan Venn; 9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike Vanden Heuvel; 10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael Carklin; 11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair; 12. Staging cognition: how performance shows us how we think Amy Cook; 13. Clouds and meteors: recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati; 14. The stage hand's lament”: scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.

'This is a mind-expanding book. It not only shows that theatre and science have been interacting for centuries but offers a series of pathfinding essays on subjects ranging from mental health to plague and infection. It establishes beyond doubt that theatre and science are indissolubly linked and challenges, informs and stimulates the reader at every turn.' Michael Billington

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016), and Twentieth-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern (2016), coedited with Laura Marcus and Michèle Mendelssohn and shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association book prize.

• Introduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 1. Objectivity & observation Dan Rebellato; 2. Staging consciousness: Metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall; 3. The experimental/experiential stage: extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre Carina Bartleet; 4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit: theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery; 5. The play at the end of the world: deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams; 6. Bodies of knowledge: theatre and medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 7. Pathogenic performativity: urban contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh; 8. Theatres of mental health Jonathan Venn; 9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike Vanden Heuvel; 10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael Carklin; 11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair; 12. Staging cognition: how performance shows us how we think Amy Cook; 13. Clouds and meteors: recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati; 14. The stage hand's lament”: scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.

'This is a mind-expanding book. It not only shows that theatre and science have been interacting for centuries but offers a series of pathfinding essays on subjects ranging from mental health to plague and infection. It establishes beyond doubt that theatre and science are indissolubly linked and challenges, informs and stimulates the reader at every turn.' Michael Billington

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (2016), and Twentieth-Century Approaches to Literature: Late Victorian into Modern (2016), coedited with Laura Marcus and Michèle Mendelssohn and shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association book prize.

• Introduction Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr; 1. Objectivity & observation Dan Rebellato; 2. Staging consciousness: Metaphor as thought-experiment in McBurney's staging of beware of pity Jane Goodall; 3. The experimental/experiential stage: extreme states of being of and knowing in the theatre Carina Bartleet; 4. A cave, a skull, and a little piece of grit: theatre in the anthropocene Carl Lavery; 5. The play at the end of the world: deke weaver's unreliable bestiary and the theatre of extinction Una Chaudhuri and Joshua Williams; 6. Bodies of knowledge: theatre and medical science Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 7. Pathogenic performativity: urban contagion and fascist affect Fintan Walsh; 8. Theatres of mental health Jonathan Venn; 9. Devised theatre and the performance of science Mike Vanden Heuvel; 10. Theatre and science as social intervention Michael Carklin; 11. Acting and science Rhonda Blair; 12. Staging cognition: how performance shows us how we think Amy Cook; 13. Clouds and meteors: recreating wonder on the early modern stage Frédérique Aït-Touati; 14. The stage hand's lament”: scenography, technology, and off-stage Labour Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.

'This is a mind-expanding book. It not only shows that theatre and science have been interacting for centuries but offers a series of pathfinding essays on subjects ranging from mental health to plague and infection. It establishes beyond doubt that theatre and science are indissolubly linked and challenges, informs and stimulates the reader at every turn.' Michael Billington