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.
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 ...
Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight
1st Edition
By Mark Broomfield
August 20, 2024
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden ...
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 ...
A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Activators, Activists, Archives, All
1st Edition
By Joey Orr
May 27, 2024
A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works. This book reorients well-known works of contemporary performance and social practice around the workers who have shaped, enacted, and supported them. It emerges from perspectives on ...
Appropriations of Irish Drama in Modern Korean Nationalist Theatre
1st Edition
By Hunam Yun
May 27, 2024
This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised. By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this study shows how the intervention of the competing agents – both the ...
Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance
1st Edition
By Hongwei Bao
May 27, 2024
In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. This book documents various forms of queer performance – including music, film, theatre, and political activism – in the first two decades of the twenty first century. In doing so, Bao argues ...
Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Carla Fernandes, Vito Evola, Cláudia Ribeiro
May 27, 2024
Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication is the result of a collaborative and transdisciplinary effort towards a first definition of "dance data", with its complexities and contradictions, in a time where cognitive science is growing in parallel to the need of a renewed awareness of the ...
Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance: Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts
1st Edition
By Telory D Arendell
May 27, 2024
This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this journey with a brief history of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Living Newspapers through ...
Harold Pinter's Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter
1st Edition
By Charles Morton
May 27, 2024
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright. This exploration traces Shakespeare’s influence through Pinter’s pre-theatre writings (1950-1956), to his collaboration with Sir Peter Hall (starting properly at the RSC in 1962 and continuing until 1983),...