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.
Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change: Activist Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Emer O'Toole
October 08, 2024
This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as backdrop to examine relationships between activism and contemporary Irish theatre and performance. It studies art explicitly ...
Transcultural Theater
1st Edition
By Günther Heeg
October 08, 2024
Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and practices of xenophobia worldwide, this ...
Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary Dance
1st Edition
By Eric Mullis
October 07, 2024
Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance. It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume ...
Crisis and Communitas: Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera
October 04, 2024
This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes. This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully ...
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way
October 04, 2024
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so,...
Performing Human Consciousness: A Philosophical Investigation into the Staging of the Mind
1st Edition
By Vanessa Dodd
September 30, 2024
Is the mind like a theatrical performance? This comparison has often been used as a conceptual tool by neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists in trying to understand what constitutes the human mind, and in particular how the comings and goings and the character transformations on the stage...
The Human Touch: Redefining the Art of British Contemporary Improvisational Theatre
1st Edition
By Chloé Arros
September 27, 2024
The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, and their relationships to each other. Vulnerability is a main feature of ...
Who Is In the Room?: Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director
1st Edition
By Brooke O'Harra
September 25, 2024
With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward. O’Harra investigates a series of important questions: How do we wrest our work from institutional imperatives of public ...
Applied Theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals: Crises, Collaboration, and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib, Bobby Smith
September 23, 2024
This book is the first definitive publication to consider the intersections of applied theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a series of goals which have shaped development and social justice initiatives from 2015 to 2030. It brings together emerging and leading scholars and ...
The Adaptable Degree: How Education in Theatre Supports the Economy of The Future
1st Edition
By Melanie Dreyer-Lude
September 20, 2024
This book utilized a mixed-methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction. With a population of over 1,000 participants, this study examined where graduates were working, how their careers had changed ...
Post-choreography: Jérôme Bel’s Choreography and Movement in Malfunction
1st Edition
By Shuntaro Yoshida
September 10, 2024
This book sheds light on the practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art.Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur workshop participants. The focus is on ...
Arabs, Politics, and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Roaa Ali, George Potter, Samer Al-Saber
September 06, 2024
This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre. Through three sections discussing occupation and resistance, diaspora, migration, and refugees, and nationalism and belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between Arab...