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.
Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11: Patriotic Dissent
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Spencer
November 08, 2013
This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars ...
Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith
1st Edition
Edited
By Lance Gharavi
July 08, 2013
The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world’s most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtful, and imaginative ...
Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship, and Citizenship
1st Edition
By Kanika Batra
November 13, 2012
In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by ...
Global Ibsen: Performing Multiple Modernities
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler
November 13, 2012
Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, ...
Brecht and Critical Theory: Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Sean Carney
July 11, 2012
Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth ...
Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama
1st Edition
By Anna McMullan
May 30, 2012
The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished ...
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater: Upstaging Dictatorship
1st Edition
By Ana Elena Puga
May 03, 2012
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative ...
The Theatre of the Bauhaus: The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer
1st Edition
By Melissa Trimingham
April 20, 2012
Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "Master Magician" and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this "theatre of high modernism" and its historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration ...
The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre
1st Edition
By Stephen Di Benedetto
October 06, 2011
Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that ...
Ecology and Environment in European Drama
1st Edition
By Downing Cless
August 16, 2011
Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force. ...
The Politics of American Actor Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud
June 06, 2011
The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning ...
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
July 21, 2010
A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent ...