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.
Brecht and Critical Theory: Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Sean Carney
July 11, 2012
Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth ...
Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama
1st Edition
By Anna McMullan
May 30, 2012
The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished ...
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater: Upstaging Dictatorship
1st Edition
By Ana Elena Puga
May 03, 2012
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative ...
The Theatre of the Bauhaus: The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer
1st Edition
By Melissa Trimingham
April 20, 2012
Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "Master Magician" and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this "theatre of high modernism" and its historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration ...
The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre
1st Edition
By Stephen Di Benedetto
October 06, 2011
Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that ...
Ecology and Environment in European Drama
1st Edition
By Downing Cless
August 16, 2011
Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. ...
The Politics of American Actor Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud
June 06, 2011
The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning ...
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
July 21, 2010
A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent ...
Movement Training for the Modern Actor
1st Edition
By Mark Evans
June 18, 2010
This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of modern movement training for actors, Evans traces the development of the ‘neutral’ body as a significant area of practice ...
Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart
February 02, 2010
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, ...
Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Franko
October 13, 2009
Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster.The methodologies ...
The Politics of New Media Theatre: Life®™
1st Edition
By Gabriella Giannachi
October 13, 2009
The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. ...