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 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 ...
Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington: Terrell, Du Bois, and the Drama of the 1932 Bicentennial
1st Edition
By Lurana Donnels O’Malley
July 11, 2025
This book examines how early twentieth-century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States. White-authored pageants and plays written for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birthday relegated Black Americans to the periphery through racist ...
Black Women Centre Stage: Diasporic Solidarity in Contemporary Black British Theatre
1st Edition
By Paola Prieto López
June 27, 2025
This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK. Through the concept of creative diasporic solidarity, it offers an innovative theoretical approach to examine the ways in which the playwrights respond ...
Burning Man: Learning from Heterotopia
1st Edition
By Linda Noveroske-Tritten
June 27, 2025
This book centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change. With particular focus on the Ten Principles of Burning Man, Linda Noveroske-Tritten posits a re-interpretation of common notions of "self" and "other" as they apply to...
Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor: A Guide for Actors and Directors
1st Edition
By John Gribas, Angeline Underwood
June 27, 2025
Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the characters they play. Grounded in a contemporary approach to understanding and applying the power of metaphor, it offers a practical guide for both actors and directors. This book ...
Of Kings and Clowns: Leadership in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre Since 1967
1st Edition
By Tiran Manucharyan
June 27, 2025
This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967. Through detailed analyses of the plays, the book investigates the ways Egyptian theatre represents, formulates, and imagines political and cultural leadership and, by implication, enacts its own leadership. Alongside ...