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.
Kierkegaard and the Performatics of Philosophy
1st Edition
By Leo Cabranes-Grant
December 29, 2025
This groundbreaking work explores Søren Kierkegaard as a pioneering figure in Performance Theory, revealing how his philosophical approach anticipated contemporary Performance Studies concepts. The book examines Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms and dialectical discourse to create a performative ...
1964, A Year in African American Performance History
1st Edition
By David Krasner
December 26, 2025
This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964. The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement, making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter considers individually politics, rhetoric, sports...
Becomings: Pregnancy, Phenomenology, and Postmodern Dance
1st Edition
By Johanna Kirk
December 26, 2025
This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years. Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their ...
Dancing with Georges Perec: Embodying Oulipo
1st Edition
By Leslie Satin
December 26, 2025
This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936–1983) to dance. "Dancing" addresses art-making parallels and their personal and sociocultural contexts, including Perec’s childhood loss of his parents in the Holocaust and its ...
Giving Voice: The Power of Theatre for Positive Change
1st Edition
By Carol J. Maples
December 26, 2025
This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment. Giving Voice charts a roadmap for the process of establishing a troupe, including auditioning members, utilizing authentic source ...
Performing the Transition to Democracy: Theater and Performance in 1970s Spain
1st Edition
By David Rodríguez-Solás
December 26, 2025
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy. This period, spanning 1968 to 1982, is considered the historical moment that most directly shaped ...
Readings of Contemporary Circus: A Dramaturgy
1st Edition
By Franziska Trapp
December 26, 2025
What are the characteristics of contemporary circus? In what way does contemporary circus differ from theater, dance, and performance? Where do hybrid forms exist? Where are there observable commonalities? Despite the diversity of contemporary circus performances, are there generalizable ...
The Art and Occupation of Stage Design in Finnish Theatres: The Rise and Fall of a Professional Community
1st Edition
By Laura Gröndahl
December 26, 2025
This study explores the formation, establishment, expansion, and disintegration of stage design as a modern profession and a recognized artform in Finnish theatres. Drawing on oral or written recollections and thoughts of stage designers from different decades, the author asks how their artistic ...
The Canon in Contemporary Theatre: Plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht in Contemporary Directors’ Theatre
1st Edition
By Lars Harald Maagerø
December 26, 2025
This book explores the relationship between contemporary theatre, particularly contemporary theatre directors, and the dramatic canon of plays. Through focusing on productions of plays by three canonical playwrights (Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht) by eight contemporary European directors (Michael ...
The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage: 1660–1720
1st Edition
By Anne Greenfield
December 26, 2025
This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth century: sexual violence. During this sixty-year span, there were over fifty tragic and tragi-comedic productions that showcased rape and/or attempted rape—a remarkable number that ...
Theatre and Human Rights: The Politics of Dramatic Form
1st Edition
By Gary M. English
December 26, 2025
This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations...
Transfiguring Tragedy: Schopenhauer, Stirner, and Nietzsche in Eugene O’Neill’s Early Plays
1st Edition
By Ryder Thornton
December 26, 2025
This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, concluding with The Hairy Ape, completed in 1921, as an illustration of the mastery he had achieved in dramatizing key concepts of philosophy. Analyses of...