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.
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 ...
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage
1st Edition
By Eero Laine
June 30, 2021
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form that spans from its local places of performance to circulate as a popular, global product.Professional wrestling has all the trappings of sport, but is, at its core, a theatrical event....
Mummers' Plays Revisited
1st Edition
By Peter Harrop
March 31, 2021
Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ‘folk’ or ‘traditional’ drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre. This fresh view of folk and tradition explores how mummers’ plays emerged in an 18th century theatrical environment...
Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious: A psychoanalytic perspective on unconscious processes of identification in the theatre
1st Edition
By Maria Turri
December 18, 2020
From Aristotle’s theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting. Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches the ...
Adapting Translation for the Stage
1st Edition
By Geraldine Brodie, Emma Cole
December 18, 2020
Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across these boundaries, exploring common themes and issues encountered when writing, staging...
Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Burroughs
December 18, 2020
Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and ...
Cross-Gender China: Across Yin-Yang, Across Cultures, and Beyond Jingju
1st Edition
By Huai Bao
December 18, 2020
Cross-Gender China, the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research, deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China.The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of ...
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’ ...