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.
Home and Away: Lived Experience in Performative Narratives
1st Edition
Edited
By Leigh Anne Howard
May 31, 2023
Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding. By combining aesthetic expression and inquiry with critical reflection, the contributors in this volume use a variety ...
Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen: Five Encounters with the Sages
1st Edition
By Juliusz Tyszka
May 31, 2023
The book contains three accounts of five public speeches and conversations with the public of two outstanding figures of theatre and performance, Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen, from 1993 to 1997. Their speeches concern their output and their current research. The content of Ludwik Flaszen's ...
Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions
1st Edition
By Clemens Risi
May 31, 2023
Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers’ bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well...
Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Kendra Capece, Patrick Scorese
May 31, 2023
Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global pandemic. Covering artists and events from across the United States: from New York to California and from South Dakota to Texas, the chapters are equal parts theory and practice, weaving...
Performances that Change the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Alexander Day
May 31, 2023
This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas—from Canada to the Southern Cone. Through the study of specific examples from numerous countries, the authors of this volume demonstrate a crucial, shared ...
Poetic Images, Presence, and the Theater of Kenotic Rituals
1st Edition
By Enikő Sepsi
May 31, 2023
This book explores the interrelation of contemporary French theatre and poetry. Using the pictorial turn in the various branches of art and science, its observable features, and the theoretical framework of the conceptual metaphor, this study seeks to gather together the divergent manners in ...
Surviving Theatre: The Living Archive of Spectatorship
1st Edition
By Marco Pustianaz
May 31, 2023
Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of ...
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul
1st Edition
By Melin Levent Yuna
May 31, 2023
Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdoğan. In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a ...
The Piscatorbühne Century: Politics and Aesthetics in the Modern Theater After 1927
1st Edition
By Drew Lichtenberg
May 31, 2023
This study of the Piscatorbühne season of 1927–1928 uncovers a vital, previously neglected current of radical experiment in modern theater, a ghost in the machine of contemporary performance practices. A handful of theater seasons changed the course of 20th- and 21st-century theatre. But only the ...
The Theatre of Nuclear Science: Weapons, Power, and the Scientists Behind it All
1st Edition
By Jeanne Tiehen
May 31, 2023
The Theatre of Nuclear Science theoretically explores theatrical representations of nuclear science to reconsider a science that can have consequences beyond imagination. Focusing on a series of nuclear science plays that span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and including performances of ...
Live Digital Theatre: Interdisciplinary Performative Pedagogies
1st Edition
By Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerović
April 27, 2023
Live Digital Theatre explores the experiences of Interdisciplinary Performing Arts practitioners working on digital performance and in particular live digital theatre. Collaborating with world-leading practitioners – Kolectiv Theatre (UK), Teatro Os Satyros (Brazil), and The Red Curtain ...
Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I: (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka
April 07, 2023
This volume investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies. Performance cultures ...