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.
Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilli Bush-Bailey, Kate Flaherty
January 29, 2024
This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus—removing ...
Włodzimierz Staniewski and the Phenomenon of “Gardzienice”
1st Edition
Edited
By S. E. Gontarski, Tomasz Wiśniewski, Katarzyna Kręglewska
January 29, 2024
This book offers a broad, comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the Gardzienice theatrical company and its evolution. Their most recent production, The Wedding, is taken as a focal point for a retrospective discussion on the company’s development. Premiered at the festival ...
Ethical Agility in Dance: Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance
1st Edition
Edited
By Noyale Colin, Catherine Seago, Kathryn Stamp
November 24, 2023
This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience. This volume draws together a range of critical voices...
Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays
1st Edition
By L. Monique Pittman
September 25, 2023
Shakespeare’s Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation’s story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus ...
360° Circus: Meaning. Practice. Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Franziska Trapp
June 01, 2023
This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a ...
American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces
1st Edition
Edited
By Katrin Horn, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, Pia Wiegmink
May 31, 2023
This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. Structured around key concepts of performance studies––commons, skills, and traces––this edited collection addresses the political, normative, and historical implications of cultural performances ...
Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage: Performance, Memory, Affect
1st Edition
By Remco Ensel
May 31, 2023
This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness. Despite its overwhelming success, criticism of the Broadway makeover has been ...
Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christel Weiler, Torsten Jost
May 31, 2023
Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts. Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater...
D’Oyly Carte: The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company
1st Edition
By Paul Seeley
May 31, 2023
This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D’Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982. In this book, Paul Seeley follows the analytical model ...
Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s: Femininity, Celebrity, and Glamour
1st Edition
By Kate Holmes
May 31, 2023
Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of ‘the’ ...
Forms of Emotion: Human to Nonhuman in Drama, Theatre and Contemporary Performance
1st Edition
By Peta Tait
May 31, 2023
Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect, which make up a spectrum of ‘emotion’, to illuminate theatrical knowledge and practice and reflect ...
Hellenic Common: Greek Drama and Cultural Cosmopolitanism in the Neoliberal Era
1st Edition
By Philip Zapkin
May 31, 2023
Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan cultural commonwealth. Analyzing plays by Femi Osofisan, Moira Buffini, Marina Carr, Colin Teevan, and Yael Farber, this book shows how contemporary adapters draw tragic and mythic ...