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.
Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Reason, Anja Mølle Lindelof
June 30, 2020
This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a ...
Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play
1st Edition
By Michael Y. Bennett
March 04, 2020
Theatrical characters’ dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher. Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play re-examines the ontological status of theatre and its fictional objects through the "possible worlds" thesis, arguing that ...
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed & Performed
1st Edition
By Georgina Guy
March 04, 2019
Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as re-enactment in gallery contexts, Guy's book ...
Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
1st Edition
By Amanda Rogers
August 23, 2018
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses ...
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain
August 23, 2018
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are ...
The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players
1st Edition
By Sarah Gorman
August 23, 2018
The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and has...
Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, Eirini Nedelkopoulou
December 14, 2017
This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts ...
Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage: In History’s Wings
1st Edition
By Alexander Feldman
May 31, 2017
This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, ...
Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama
1st Edition
By Katrine Wong
May 24, 2017
This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or ...
The Unwritten Grotowski: Theory and Practice of the Encounter
1st Edition
By Kris Salata
May 24, 2017
This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski’s work as ...
Adapting Chekhov: The Text and its Mutations
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Douglas Clayton, Yana Meerzon
July 16, 2015
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist...
Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz
July 16, 2015
From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This...