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.
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 ...
Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine
1st Edition
By Meredith Conti
December 18, 2020
Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within late nineteenth-century popular culture was made manifest on the period’s British and American stages, ...
Representing China on the Historical London Stage: From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance
1st Edition
By Dongshin Chang
December 18, 2020
This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this ...
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Diego Santos Sánchez
December 18, 2020
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regimes across Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. These are divided into three different approaches to theatre itself - as cultural ...
Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn
1st Edition
By James Frieze
December 18, 2020
Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways in which information is detected, packaged and circulated. Running through forms as diverse as neo-naturalistic playwriting, intimately immersive theatre, verbatim drama, intermedial performance, and musical theatre,...
Transformative Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz
December 18, 2020
Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these theories’ mutual concern with the transformation of those involved. From artists to spectators, readers, listeners, or audiences, the idea of ...
History Dances: Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance
1st Edition
By Ofosuwa M. Abiola
September 30, 2020
The field of history is founded on the interrogation of written documents from the past. However, culture is the center of life in Africa. As a result, in the past – and to a degree in the present – the process for documenting events in Africa was not written, it was performed. History Dances: ...