Performing Animals:: History, Agency, Theater School stories (Children's / Teenage) Melded with social commentary around

Melded with social commentary around race

Little did Lucy or her family know that the greatest Cuban spy of all was sitting right next to them at Thanksgivings

including conversations with some of the decade’s legendary artists

but a beguiling and necessary one

the price paid for ill-placed trust and the lessons that come with having it and losing it all

Performing Animals:: History, Agency, Theater School stories (Children's / Teenage) Melded with social commentary aroundFrom bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth century hunt, animals have been used in human orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship. In exploring the human animal relationship from the early modern period to the nineteenth century,