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.
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 ...
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 ...