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.
Staging and Re-cycling: Retrieving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive
1st Edition
Edited
By John Keefe, Knut Ove Arntzen
December 19, 2022
In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a collection of reprinted and first-published (...
“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties
1st Edition
By Tony Lidington
September 30, 2022
This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes and concert parties and their popular performance heritage. It will provide, for the first time, a definition of the pierrot troupe and its evolution from the ...
Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions: Analysis and Catalogue
1st Edition
By Philip Butterworth
July 29, 2022
When we speak of theatre, we think we know what a stage direction is: we tend to think of it as an authorial requirement, devised to be complementary to the spoken text and directed at those who put on a play as to what, when, where, how or why a moment, action or its staging should be completed. ...
Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka
July 29, 2022
This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’s mathematics of music and colour in ...
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sirkku Aaltonen, Areeg Ibrahim
July 12, 2022
This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the ...
Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–1920
1st Edition
By Annie Holt
May 06, 2022
Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer’s taste or status. She argues that in the period 1820–1920, as part of the larger project of ...
Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace: Travelling Theatre
1st Edition
By James Wenley
April 29, 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace offers a case study of how the theatre of Aotearoa has toured, represented and marketed itself on the global stage. How has New Zealand work attempted to stand out, differentiate itself, and get seen by audiences internationally? This book ...
Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of Performance
1st Edition
By Josefine Wikström
April 29, 2022
In this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept. This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in art theory and performance and dance studies...
The Scenography of Howard Barker: The Wrestling School Aesthetic 1998-2011
1st Edition
By Lara Maleen Kipp
April 29, 2022
Influential contemporary British playwright and director Howard Barker has been engaging with the scenography of the Wrestling School’s productions since 1998. Despite this active involvement in the design of set, costume, lighting, and sound, no in-depth published study on this aspect of his work ...
The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia: Mirroring the Master
1st Edition
By Arjun Raina
April 29, 2022
This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia. A rigorous analysis and detailed documentation of the teaching of multiple learners in Melbourne, both in the group workshop mode and one-on-one, combined with the ...
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...