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Drawing on the discourse surrounding third-wave ecotheatre, this paper discusses ecodramaturgies constitutive of works such as Lucy+Jorge Orta’s Symphony of Absent Wildlife (beginning in 2014), Violeta Luna’s NK603: Action for Performer & e-Maiz (2014), and Chantal Bilodeau’s Sila (2015). Next, it attempts to show why and how the ecodramaturgies found therein may ally with and inform ecopedagogy and, more specifically, theatre ecopedagogy. Finally, it sets forth the argument that an alliance between ecodramaturgies and theatre ecopedagogy may, on the one hand, reconfigure contemporary educational needs through updated ecological, ethical, and aesthetic lenses in/across diverse applied arts contexts and help educators respond to those needs. On the other hand, it may allow learners and learning communities to push for material, structural changes by bringing the compound education+art to the center of actual political action on environmental issues.
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Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou
assistant professor at the Department of English Language and Literature NKUA, received her PhD in contemporary anglophone theatre from the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She conducted postdoctoral research on applications of digital theatre in adult education at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens, on a full scholarship by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. She serves as sessional academic, while she also works as independent dramaturge and assistant editor for Critical Stages, the journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. Her first monograph, Latinx Reception of Greek Tragic Myth: Healing (and) Radical Politics, was published by Peter Lang in 2020. She is currently putting together, with Dr. Dimitra Nikolaidou, an edited volume on the intersection of and crossovers between theatre and digital games. Her research interests include applied, digital, and ecologically responsive theatre, intermediality, education, and myth studies.
