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.
Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School
1st Edition
Edited
By Dermot Daly
September 22, 2025
Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training. Written by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries, this book offers practical and theoretical tools to take into ...
Shakespeare's 'Method' for Actors: As Revealed in The First Folio 1623
1st Edition
By Christine Ozanne
September 22, 2025
By using only the First Folio text, this book acts as an original guide to performing Shakespeare’s plays. This book is the accumulation of the many Clues from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (as opposed to any edited version) that help to inform contemporary performances and offers a ...
Temporary Stages III: How High School Theatre Fosters Spiritual Strength and Critical Consciousness
1st Edition
By Jo Beth Gonzalez
September 01, 2025
Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves. Recognizing divergence invites self-reflection and kindles compassion. These actions tap students’ inner cores while at the same time deepening their understanding of privilege, a key component of critical...
Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume I
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin
August 29, 2025
This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seenthrough the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the largertheoretical debates about whether and how performance remains. Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance,Performance: ...
Experimental Xiqu Performances Endure: A Soft Touch of the Wounds with Interweaving Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Lin Chen
August 22, 2025
This book offers a detailed, comprehensive, and theoretically grounded study of experimental xiqu performances that have taken place in recent decades across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and online platforms. Situating these performances within their specific socio-political contexts and ...
The Inherent Potential in Art Performance: To Critically Challenge Art Traditions in Scenes of Love and Sexual Desire
1st Edition
By Iris Julian
August 13, 2025
This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research ...
Circus for Social Change: Social Circus in Context
1st Edition
By Katie Lavers, Jon Burtt, Emmanuel Bochud
August 10, 2025
In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ways of engaging with the field. Lavers, Burtt, and Bochud investigate the way that Social Circus transforms in response to its immediate environment, and particularly its social,...
Actor Trainers on Acting: For the Twenty First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna McNamara
August 04, 2025
Actor Trainers on Acting is a comprehensive, diverse and forwardthinking examination of the craft of acting written by leading experts from across the world. The book reflects on the evolving relationship between actor training and the contemporary and future world and considers how directly actor ...
The Art of Sensorial Language
1st Edition
By Barbara Pia Jenič
July 31, 2025
The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interactivity and multisensory experiences that can be understood internationally and cross‑culturally. It considers interactivity not as a technological mode of interaction but as a direct and immediate communication between the audience and the ...
From Object to Performance: The Beginnings of Israeli Performance Art
1st Edition
By Dror Harari
July 24, 2025
From Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a “performance mentality” and the gradual maturation of a “performative turn” in Israeli art. Manifested in the transition from object-oriented art to performance-based art, this cultural moment reflected ...
Embracing Disruption: Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance
1st Edition
By Stephen Wisker
July 23, 2025
This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning in Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and explores how he purposefully invited the clown’s anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy. Clowning was a potent but divisive force in the theater of Shakespeare’s time, challenging the emerging ...
Performance and Performativity of Dalit Students Politics in India: The Justice for Rohith Movement
1st Edition
By Malavika Priyadarshini Rao
July 18, 2025
This book examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday performance of Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD student, died,by suicide in Hyderabad Central University on 17 January 2016 in ...