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.
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 ...
A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations: Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture
1st Edition
By Grzegorz Ziółkowski
December 13, 2021
A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture.The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented with notes on artworks inspired by or ...
Shakespeare in Singapore: Performance, Education, and Culture
1st Edition
By Philip Smith
December 13, 2021
Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture.This book tracks the role and development of Shakespeare in education from the founding of modern Singapore to the present day, drawing on sources such ...
Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy
1st Edition
By Olga Kekis
September 30, 2021
Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy investigates the adaptation of classical drama for the contemporary stage and explores its role as an active, polemical form of theatre which addresses present-day issues. The book’s premise is that by breaking drama into constituent ...
Performing Home
1st Edition
By Stuart Andrews
September 30, 2021
Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.In the context of growing interest in ideas and practices that cross between architecture, arts practice and performance, it is valuable to understand what happens ...
The Bible and Modern British Drama: From 1930 to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Mary F. Brewer
September 30, 2021
The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories, such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage.The book ...
The Dramaturgy of the Door
1st Edition
By Stuart Andrews, Matthew Wagner
September 30, 2021
The Dramaturgy of the Door examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking how doors function on stage, in site-specific practice and in performances of place.This first book-length study on the topic argues that doors engage in and help to shape broad ...
Women's Playwriting and the Women's Movement, 1890-1918
1st Edition
By Anna Farkas
September 30, 2021
The influence of the women’s movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women’s drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years ...
After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation
1st Edition
By Claudia Tatinge Nascimento
June 30, 2021
After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the consequences of decades of state-imposed censorship. By offering an in-depth examination of key artists and ...
Moving Relation: Touch in Contemporary Dance
1st Edition
By Gerko Egert
June 30, 2021
Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance.By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot, this book investigates their usage of touch ...