Dancing to the End of Humanity: Environmental Catastrophe in Earthquakes in London

Human beings frequently exhibit destructive behaviours toward the physical environments in most of their institutions, including art. Within this context, some performance arts display the abject situation as a result of the bizarre encounters with the feared and disgusted other. This encounter consecutively determines the relational payoff of human beings. Such display also preserves the so-called distinction between human and Nature as nonhuman is presented as a piece of art separated from the self. Moreover, the exhibition of the Other as a cultural product unwittingly underlines that human beings reveal Nature as the Other prompted for the Cultural gaze. This categorisation feeds on any nonchalance of human beings towards a potential environmental catastrophe created by the very categorisation between Nature and Culture. Within this framework, this study will focus on the nonchalance of humanity towards an unavoidable environmental catastrophe they created, which creates an anthropocentric dilemma. To exemplify this dilemma, this study will make use of examples from Mike Barlett's play entitled Earthquakes in London (2010).