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.
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects: Volume II Contemporary Branchings: Secular Benedictions, Activated Energies, Uncanny Faiths
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Orenstein, Tim Cusack
October 17, 2024
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, ...
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology: New Myths and Performative Rituals between XR, Robots and AI
1st Edition
By Ester Fuoco
October 14, 2024
This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system. This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and communicate beyond spatial and temporal ...
Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Pettersen Lantz, Angela Sweigart-Gallagher
October 14, 2024
Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance explores how children and young people fit into national political theatre and, moreover, how youth enact interrogative, patriotic, and/or antagonistic performances as they develop their own relationship with nationhood. Children are often seen as ...
Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter
1st Edition
By Marty Gould
October 14, 2024
In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated ...
Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject
1st Edition
Edited
By Fintan Walsh, Matthew Causey
October 14, 2024
This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with ...
Theatre Translation in Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Bigliazzi, Paola Ambrosi, Peter Kofler
October 14, 2024
This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator, the director, and the actors. Exploring the role and function of the translator as ...
Theatre and National Identity: Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadine Holdsworth
October 14, 2024
This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad ...
Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Katja Krebs
October 14, 2024
This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage of the concepts of translation and adaptation in terms of theatre and film. At the heart of this ...
Beyoncé and Beyond: 2013–2016
1st Edition
By Naila Keleta-Mae
October 09, 2024
This book examines three years of Beyoncé’s career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. The book explores how the careful choreography of Beyoncé’s image, voice and public persona, coupled with her intelligent use of audio and visual mediums, makes...
Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic
1st Edition
By Ciara L. Murphy
October 09, 2024
This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines how moments of significant change influence not only the content of performance practice but also the form ...
Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play: Tradition as Trademark
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Mohr, Julia Stenzel
October 09, 2024
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards. Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology initiate an interdisciplinary discussion of ...
The Immersive Theatre of GAle GAtes
1st Edition
By Daniella Mooney
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on experimental theatre company, GAle GAtes, credited as "the true innovator" of the contemporary immersive movement. The Immersive Theatre of GAle GAtes is a case-study of this little-known but visionary company, with a focus on its development and dramaturgy. Through rare ...