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.
Rapa Nui Theatre: Staging Indigenous Identities in Easter Island
1st Edition
By Moira Fortin Cornejo
May 27, 2024
This book examines the relationships between theatrical representations and socio-political aspects of Rapa Nui culture from pre-colonial times to the present. This is the first book written about the production of Rapa Nui theatre, which is understood as a unique and culturally distinct ...
Shakespeare and Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Ormsby, Valerie Clayman Pye
May 27, 2024
Shakespeare and Tourism provides a dialogical mapping of Shakespeare studies and touristic theory through a collection of essays by scholars on a wide range of material. This volume examines how Shakespeare tourism has evolved since its inception, and how the phenomenon has been influenced and ...
Staging Rebellion in the Musical, Hair: Marginalised Voices in Musical Theatre
1st Edition
By Sarah Elisabeth Browne
May 27, 2024
This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving voice to those who are historically considered to be on the margins of musical theatre history. Sarah Browne interrogates key scenes from the musical which will seek to identify ...
The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-Political Movement of Theatre and Performance: An Intercultural Perspective
1st Edition
By Min Tian
May 27, 2024
This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds. In contrast to the predominantly Western approaches, which look at traditions (Western and non-Western) from a predominantly (Western) modernist perspective, this book...
LO: TECH: POP: CULT: Screendance Remixed
1st Edition
Edited
By Priscilla Guy, Alanna Thain
April 24, 2024
This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and ...
The Art of Entertainment: Popular Performance in Modern British Art, 1880 to 1940
1st Edition
By Jason Price
April 23, 2024
In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940, focusing on the ways in which figures from popular entertainments, such as music hall serio-comics, clowns, and circus acrobats, ...
To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater
1st Edition
By Mary B. Robinson
April 05, 2024
This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country. Dianne Wiest, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, and ...
ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Carter Harrison, Michael Harris, Pellom McDaniels III
January 29, 2024
‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology ...
Aesthetic Collectives: On the Nature of Collectivity in Cultural Performance
1st Edition
By Andrew Wiskowski
January 29, 2024
This book focuses attention on groups of performing people that are unique aesthetic objects, the focus of an artist’s vision, but at the same time a collective being; a singular, whole mass that exists and behaves like an individual entity. This text explores this unique experience, which is far ...
Borderlands Children’s Theatre: Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre
1st Edition
By Cecilia Josephine Aragón
January 29, 2024
This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience. Borderlands Children’s Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o theatre culture. Drawing from historical and ...
Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s
1st Edition
By Tanya Calamoneri
January 29, 2024
Butoh America unearths the people and networks that popularized Butoh dance in the Americas through a focused look at key artists, producers, and festivals in the United States and Mexico. This is the first book to gather these histories into one narrative and look at the development of American ...
Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan: Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations
1st Edition
By Guo Chao
January 29, 2024
This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in Chinese history, Guo Chao reflects the transformations in the social zeitgeist in China, especially the politics of gender and sexuality. The breadth of...