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.
Performing Body, Space, and Place: The Cosmocentric Way
1st Edition
By Thomas Riccio
July 21, 2026
The Performance of Body, Space, and Place offer a groundbreaking methodology for performance in the Anthropocene, addressing the spiritual and ecological crises of our time through a fusion of Indigenous knowledge and contemporary practice. This book is the culmination of 35 years of international ...
Choreographing the North: Settler Affinities in Contemporary Dancemaking
1st Edition
By Bridget Cauthery
July 20, 2026
Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "North." The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined ...
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power
1st Edition
By Artemis Preeshl
July 20, 2026
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare’s classical Mediterranean plays. This classical sequel explores how female-identified, ...
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm
1st Edition
By Katerina Paramana
July 20, 2026
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds. Performance works, however, can offer ...
Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance
1st Edition
By Lisa Moravec
July 20, 2026
The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics ...
Logomimesis: A Treatise On The Performing Body
1st Edition
By Esa Kirkkopelto
July 20, 2026
How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosophical, ethical, and political thinking today? This book is a study of the body and language on the stage. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and...
Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse
1st Edition
By Harriet Curtis
July 20, 2026
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical ...
Music and Sound in European Theatre: Practices, Performances, Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By David Roesner, Tamara Yasmin Quick
July 20, 2026
The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the artform was first established 2,500 years ago: not just in subsequent genres that are explicitly driven by music, such as opera...
Navarasas, Autoethnodrama & DIY Immersive Theatre: An Interactive Book for Adventurous Readers
1st Edition
By Nandita Dinesh
July 20, 2026
Navarasas, Autoethnodrama & DIY Immersive Theatre is composed of two interwoven texts, each in dialogue with the other. Part I presents a distinctive autoethnodrama, dramatizing nearly two decades of Dinesh’s experiences as a theatre maker, researcher, and educator in conflict zones. This ...
Neil Bartlett: Invitations to Speculate
1st Edition
Edited
By William McEvoy, Joseph Ronan
July 20, 2026
This book explores Neil Bartlett’s groundbreaking contributions to queer cultural production in the United Kingdom. It adopts a range of critical perspectives, presenting original scholarship on Bartlett’s fiction, theatre, performance, site-specific work, and adaptations, as well as more personal ...
Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume II
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin
July 20, 2026
Representing the output of the research project "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge," this volume brings together diverse voices, methods, and formats in the discussion and practice of performance conservation. Conservators, artists, curators and scholars explore the ontology of ...
Performing Climates
1st Edition
By Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens
July 20, 2026
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs ...