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 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 ...
Movement Training for the Modern Actor
1st Edition
By Mark Evans
June 18, 2010
This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of modern movement training for actors, Evans traces the development of the ‘neutral’ body as a significant area of practice ...
Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart
February 02, 2010
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, ...
Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Franko
October 13, 2009
Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster.The methodologies ...
The Politics of New Media Theatre: Life®™
1st Edition
By Gabriella Giannachi
October 13, 2009
The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. ...
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness
1st Edition
By Matthew Causey
October 13, 2009
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The book examines the ...
Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting
1st Edition
By Jonathan Pitches
September 30, 2009
Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on ...
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
1st Edition
By Awam Amkpa
June 12, 2007
This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The author examines the work of prominent Nigerian and British playwrights who came of age after the passing of the British Empire....