Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh, eds. Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage.

Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh, eds. Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. x + 312. $104.00.

This volume begins with a list of illustrations (ix-x) and an introduction by the editors (1-58). The primary text includes the following essays: Elaine Aston, "Caryl Churchill's 'Dark Ecology'" (59-76); Stephen Bottoms, "The Garden in the Machine: Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and the American Absurd" (77-104); Ralph Yarrow, "Mutant Bodies: The Absurd in Eastern European Experience" (105-26); Joe Kelleher, "Recycling Beckett" (127-46); Franc Chamberlain, "Rare Butterflies, Persecution and Pinball Machines: Environment, Subjectivity and Society in the Theatre of Arthur Adamov" (147-64); Carl Lavery, "Ionesco's Green Lesson: Toxic Environments, Ecologies of Air" (165-90); Clare Finburgh, "Nettles in the Rose Garden: Ecocentrism in Jean Genet's Theatre" (191-218); Mark Taylor-Batty and Carl Lavery, "The Secluded Voice: The Impossible Call Home in Early Pinter" (219-40); David Williams, "Epilogue: 'The ruins of time (I've forgotten this before)'" (241-50). The text concludes with notes (251-96), notes on contributors (297-302), and an index (303-12).