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This paper investigates how a variety of issues raised during the course of a Canadian university-based theatre production of English author Caryl Churchill’s play The Skriker (1994) can contribute to the discussion of the role of creative practice in environmental education. Immanentist perspectives on embodied performance practice and on the environment, informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, will be foregrounded in a discussion of the play, its rehearsal, and some potential implications of its staging.
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Fancy, D. (2015). Sustainability, Immanence and the Monstrous in Caryl Hurchill’s the Skriker. In: Mitchell, R.C., Moore, S.A. (eds) Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-214-1_5
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