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.
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 ...
Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II: Interweaving Epistemologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Torsten Jost, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka
April 07, 2023
This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding ...
Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn’t
1st Edition
By Sophia A. McClennen
March 24, 2023
Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of Trump. Covering a range of comedic interventions, Trump Was a Joke analyzes why political satire is ...
Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins
1st Edition
By James Moreno
January 21, 2023
Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins examines stagings of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of US modern dance choreographers, José Limón (1908-1972) and Erick Hawkins (1908-1994).Focusing on the period between 1945 to 1980, this book analyzes Limón and Hawkins’ work during a time...
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Peter Zazzali
January 09, 2023
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries offers a firsthand account of the most significant acting programs in English-speaking countries throughout the world. The culmination of archival research and fieldwork spanning six years, it is the only work of its kind that studies the history of actor ...
Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures
1st Edition
By Jennifer Holl
January 09, 2023
This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic relationship since the final decade of the sixteenth century, through which each entity has contributed to the vitality and adaptability of the other. In five chapters, Jennifer Holl...
Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes
1st Edition
By Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
January 09, 2023
Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection foregrounds the role of the stage detective in ...