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.
Marginality Beyond Return: US Cuban Performances in the 1980s and 1990s
1st Edition
By Lillian Manzor
January 29, 2024
This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000. Lillian Manzor analyzes early plays by Magali Alabau, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, María Irene Fornés, Eduardo Machado, Manuel Martín Jr., and Carmelita Tropicana as well as these ...
Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire
1st Edition
By Vicky Angelaki
January 29, 2024
This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and ...
Mysticism in the Theater: What’s Needed Right Now
1st Edition
By Tom Block
January 29, 2024
Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas developed by recognized spiritual thinkers in all religions and time periods: individuals who stilled ...
Old Norse Poetry in Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian McMahon, Annemari Ferreira
January 29, 2024
This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. The contributors examine both eddic and skaldic poems and consider the surviving evidence for how they were originally recited or otherwise performed in medieval Scandinavia, Iceland and at royal courts across...
Performance at the Urban Periphery: Insights from South India
1st Edition
Edited
By Cathy Turner, Sharada Srinivasan, Jerri Daboo, Anindya Sinha
January 29, 2024
This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes on their cultural ...
Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art
1st Edition
By Sylwia Dobkowska
January 29, 2024
This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of ...
Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain
1st Edition
By Meghan Moe Beitiks
January 29, 2024
How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies? While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist ...
Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming
1st Edition
By Niki Tulk
January 29, 2024
This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuña. Each artist engages in a multi-media, or “combination” performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied ...
Playwriting in Europe: Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi
1st Edition
By Margherita Laera
January 29, 2024
This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is...
Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance: Spirit Bodies Moving
1st Edition
By 'H' Patten
January 29, 2024
This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual...
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage
1st Edition
By Amit Sarwal
January 29, 2024
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance and music blessed ...
Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture
1st Edition
By Zornitsa Dimitrova
January 29, 2024
Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of theatrical potentiality. Creating a passage towards a reconstitution of the given, a theatre of the virtual opens bodies in motion to a region of an ongoing genesis of forces. The...