Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance, and: Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts (review)

Simmons notes that despite the corporation?s scripting of the correct response to an emergency situation and its reiterated discourse of safety, when a real toxic event occurred, the community actors/ audience responded in unpredictable and unmanageable ways, and ?what took place . . . was not simply a failure of many of the actors to perform the ritual but a failure of the ritual itself to produce disciplined performances? (89).\n The volume contains twenty-one essays organized into four ?epistemological frameworks?: Spectacle, World, Environment, and Void.