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.
Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre
1st Edition
By Timothy Youker
December 18, 2020
Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corporate news outlets and official histories but also to the supposed "self-indulgence" and "elitism" of avant-garde theatre. Documentary Vanguards in Modern ...
Eroding the Language of Freedom: Identity Predicament in Selected Works of Harold Pinter
1st Edition
By Farah Ali
December 18, 2020
Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter’s plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities. Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in these plays, arguing that the characters’ ...
Food and Theatre on the World Stage
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorothy Chansky, Ann Folino White
December 18, 2020
Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical ...
Global Insights on Theatre Censorship
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine O'Leary, Diego Sánchez, Michael Thompson
December 18, 2020
Theatre has always been subject to a wide range of social, political, moral, and doctrinal controls, with authorities and social groups imposing constraints on scripts, venues, staging, acting, and reception. Focusing on a range of countries and political regimes, this book examines the many forms ...
Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronda Arab, Michelle Dowd, Adam Zucker
December 18, 2020
This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically ...
Incapacity and Theatricality: Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities
1st Edition
By Tony McCaffrey
December 18, 2020
Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatrical performance made by actors with intellectual disabilities. It presents a close examination of certain key theatrical performances across a variety of different media, including John Cassavetes’ 1963 ...
Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable
1st Edition
By Jacob Juntunen
December 18, 2020
This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of ...
Movements of Interweaving: Dance and Corporeality in Times of Travel and Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerko Egert, Holger Hartung
December 18, 2020
Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept ...
New Theatre in Italy: 1963–2013
1st Edition
By Valentina Valentini
December 18, 2020
New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. Starting in the Sixties, young artists and militants in Italy reacted to the violence in their ...
Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Katalin Cseh-Varga, Adam Czirak
December 18, 2020
Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this...
Performing Arts in Transition: Moving between Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Foellmer, Maria Katharina Schmidt, Cornelia Schmitz
December 18, 2020
Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same time, the focus on that which remains has ...
Play, Performance, and Identity: How Institutions Structure Ludic Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Matt Omasta, Drew Chappell
December 18, 2020
Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological ...