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.
Situated Knowing: Epistemic Perspectives on Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Ewa Bal, Mateusz Chaberski
March 01, 2022
Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies’ ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline. This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher ...
Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata, India
1st Edition
By Arnab Banerji
February 01, 2022
This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre. Arnab Banerji fills two lacunas in contemporary theatre scholarship. First, the materialist semiotic approach to studying a non-Western theatre event allows Banerji...
Dynamic Cartography: Body, Architecture, and Performative Space
1st Edition
By María José Martínez Sánchez
February 01, 2022
Dynamic Cartography analyses the works of Rudolf Laban, Lawrence Halprin, Anne Bogart, Adolphe Appia, Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and Hélio Oiticica. They are practitioners who have worked on different areas of enquiry from the existing relations between body and space through movement, events, ...
Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context
1st Edition
By Akihiro Odanaka, Masami Iwai
February 01, 2022
Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but also cultural ...
Skateboarding and Femininity: Gender, Space-making and Expressive Movement
1st Edition
By Dani Abulhawa
February 01, 2022
Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding’s relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial ...
Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Reason, Anja Mølle Lindelof
June 30, 2020
This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a ...
Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play
1st Edition
By Michael Y. Bennett
March 04, 2020
Theatrical characters’ dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher. Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play re-examines the ontological status of theatre and its fictional objects through the "possible worlds" thesis, arguing that ...
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed & Performed
1st Edition
By Georgina Guy
March 04, 2019
Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as re-enactment in gallery contexts, Guy's book ...
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
1st Edition
By Amanda Rogers
August 23, 2018
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses ...
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain
August 23, 2018
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are ...
The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players
1st Edition
By Sarah Gorman
August 23, 2018
The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and has...
Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, Eirini Nedelkopoulou
December 14, 2017
This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts ...