New book - Staging Science

Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen has recently been published by Palgrave Macmillan's 'Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine' series (see here for the full list), including a contribution from former Reading Group member Kirsten Shepherd-Barr on '"Unmediated" Science Plays: Seeing What Sticks':

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr examines contemporary science theatre, with particular attention paid to interdisciplinary and experimental theatre emerging across Europe. These dramas reveal, Shepherd-Barr argues, that it is the process of working towards a piece of theatre rather than the finished product that is of greatest interest, both to audiences and to the theatre-makers themselves. Such theatrical performances invite extensive participation in meaning-making amongst all of those involved, including a range of scientific consultants. In conclusion, Shepherd-Barr reads these new dramas as extensively interdisciplinary and co-produced, leading to a new form of productively entangled epistemological experience.