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.
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sirkku Aaltonen, Areeg Ibrahim
June 13, 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
April 29, 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...
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 ...