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Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-80) and index.

Foreword / Richard Gregory -- Introduction : a night in the theatre -- Theatre and performance studies within animal studies -- A note on language -- Animals in art, spectacle and text : a brief history -- Animals, philosophy and ecology -- Companion performers and bio-art : humans and animals share the stage -- Towards an ethics of animals in performance -- Risks, accidents and economics in animal performance -- Animals and their representations in performance -- Further reading -- Index.

"All animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other. This cutting-edge text addresses the implications of involving animals in performance. It demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre's capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expose theatre's negotiations with wider ethical, social and economic questions. Ultimately, the book argues that incorporating animals into performance brings about a reassessment of the ways in which theatre is produced and received." -- Publisher website.