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 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...
Archaeology of the Political Unconscious: Theater and Opera in East Berlin, 1967–1977
1st Edition
By Jennifer Williams
September 03, 2024
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. This volume investigates three case studies of how leading East Berlin stages ...
Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation
1st Edition
By Conrad Alexandrowicz
September 02, 2024
This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis. This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its ...
Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage: An Exploration of Metatheatrical Techniques
1st Edition
By Rebecca Clode
August 26, 2024
This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing ...
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 ...
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 ...