Theater
WA Staging of Gretchen E. Minton's Salt Waves Fresh
Salt Waves Fresh: Murdoch Creative Arts Showcase (Nexus Theatre, Murdoch)
21/11/2025
Abstract
This creative research output mobilises historically informed performance as a methodological lens for climate-responsive adaptation, testing how early modern theatrical aesthetics, such as live music, candlelit intimacy, and the sensory conditions of indoor late Renaissance playhouses, can be reactivated to think through contemporary ecological crisis. By situating Twelfth Night within a distinctly Western Australian coastal imaginary, Gretchen E. Minton's Salt Waves Fresh translates Shakespeare’s preoccupation with shipwreck, fluid identity, and maritime uncertainty into an embodied exploration of climate precarity, rising seas, and environmental instability. The production advances adaptation as an epistemic practice rather than a representational update, demonstrating how early modern dramaturgy can function as a critical apparatus for environmental humanities research. As the first staging of this adaptation in Western Australia, the work intervenes in local Shakespearean performance history while contributing a regionally specific model of eco-adaptive theatre that aligns global Shakespeare studies with place-based climate discourse.
Details
- Title
- WA Staging of Gretchen E. Minton's Salt Waves Fresh
- Authors/Creators
- Alys Daroy (Director)Gretchen E. Minton (Author)Jasper Prestage (Composer)
- Event
- Salt Waves Fresh: Murdoch Creative Arts Showcase (Nexus Theatre, Murdoch)
- Format
- Live Performance
- Identifiers
- 991005845663107891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Theater
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