Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Performing the Transition to Democracy: Theater and Performance in 1970s Spain
1st Edition
By David Rodríguez-Solás
August 08, 2024
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy. This period, spanning 1968 to 1982, is considered the historical moment that most directly shaped ...
Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Peck, Evi Stamatiou
August 01, 2024
Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches invites readers to think about pedagogy in actor training as a research field in its own right: to sit with the complex challenges, risks, and rewards of the acting studio; to recognise the shared vulnerability, courage, and love that defines our ...
The Art and Occupation of Stage Design in Finnish Theatres: The Rise and Fall of a Professional Community
1st Edition
By Laura Gröndahl
August 01, 2024
This study explores the formation, establishment, expansion, and disintegration of stage design as a modern profession and a recognized artform in Finnish theatres. Drawing on oral or written recollections and thoughts of stage designers from different decades, the author asks how their artistic ...
1964, A Year in African American Performance History
1st Edition
By David Krasner
July 26, 2024
This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964. The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement, making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter considers individually politics, rhetoric, sports...
Transfiguring Tragedy: Schopenhauer, Stirner, and Nietzsche in Eugene O’Neill’s Early Plays
1st Edition
By Ryder Thornton
July 19, 2024
This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, concluding with The Hairy Ape, completed in 1921, as an illustration of the mastery he had achieved in dramatizing key concepts of philosophy. Analyses of...
Creative Production and Management in the Performing Arts: Modus Operandi
1st Edition
By Vânia Rodrigues
June 24, 2024
This volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and work models of producing and managing theatre, dance, and performance – through the lenses of creative producers. This book suggests that ...
Dancing with Georges Perec: Embodying Oulipo
1st Edition
By Leslie Satin
June 14, 2024
This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936–1983) to dance. "Dancing" addresses art-making parallels and their personal and sociocultural contexts, including Perec’s childhood loss of his parents in the Holocaust and its ...
Dramaturgy to Make Visible: The Legacies of New Dramaturgy for Politics and Performance in Our Times
1st Edition
By Peter Eckersall
June 14, 2024
This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating ...
Sophia Robot: Post Human Being
1st Edition
By Thomas Riccio
June 14, 2024
This book considers David Hanson’s robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots. Mechanical beings have occupied the human imagination since antiquity. Now, they inhabit the pop-cultural imagination, embodying the ...
The Canon in Contemporary Theatre: Plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht in Contemporary Directors’ Theatre
1st Edition
By Lars Harald Maagerø
June 04, 2024
This book explores the relationship between contemporary theatre, particularly contemporary theatre directors, and the dramatic canon of plays. Through focusing on productions of plays by three canonical playwrights (Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht) by eight contemporary European directors (Michael ...
Becomings: Pregnancy, Phenomenology, and Postmodern Dance
1st Edition
By Johanna Kirk
June 03, 2024
This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years. Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their ...
Giving Voice: The Power of Theatre for Positive Change
1st Edition
By Carol J. Maples
June 03, 2024
This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment. Giving Voice charts a roadmap for the process of establishing a troupe, including auditioning members, utilizing authentic source ...