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.
Performing Climates
1st Edition
By Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens
February 04, 2025
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs ...
Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer
1st Edition
By Dominique Savitri Bonarjee
January 30, 2025
This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach. The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Moe Yamamoto, Masaki Iwana, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Suzuki, ...
Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance
1st Edition
By Lisa Moravec
January 30, 2025
The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics ...
Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era
1st Edition
By Kristin Hunt
January 30, 2025
This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era’s destabilization of shared ...
Choreographing the North: Settler Affinities in Contemporary Dancemaking
1st Edition
By Bridget Cauthery
December 30, 2024
Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "North." The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined ...
Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India
1st Edition
By Sarah Saddler
December 30, 2024
This book offers the first look at corporate theatre, a global management trend that uses dramatic techniques in workplace learning. Drawing on a decade of research with artists, consultancies, drama schools, and multinational firms in India and across the Global South, Sarah Saddler provides a ...
Tragic Resistance: Feminist Agency in Performance
1st Edition
By Megan Shea
December 30, 2024
Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them. The artists in this book work against the tragic narratives that would otherwise constrict them: the tragedy of Antigone unmade by Judith ...
Researching Popular Entertainment
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Baston, Jason Price
December 27, 2024
Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment. Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this field. The often-dismissed status of popular ...
Performing Violence: Limits and Transformative Means in Staged Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Davide Giovanzana
December 24, 2024
This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence and an in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussions (dramaturgically and physically). This study explores instruments to surpass the dichotomic opposition victim-oppressor, to demystify the spell of violence, and to ...
Staging Muslims in Britain: Playwriting, Performance, and Representation
1st Edition
By Önder Çakırtaş
December 24, 2024
This scholarly volume delves into the manner in which British Muslims articulate their cultural, social and religious identities through theatrical productions in 21st-century Britain and examines their portrayal within these performances. The study investigates the factors influencing the ...
Afrikinesis: A Paradigm for Research on African and African Diaspora Dance
1st Edition
By Ofosuwa M. Abiola
December 19, 2024
This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements. This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on ...
America Under the Influence: Drinking, Culture, and Immersive Performance
1st Edition
By Chloë Rae Edmonson
December 18, 2024
In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space and practice. Combining archival research with firsthand ...