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.
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology: New Myths and Performative Rituals between XR, Robots and AI
1st Edition
By Ester Fuoco
October 14, 2024
This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system. This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and communicate beyond spatial and temporal ...
Beyoncé and Beyond: 2013–2016
1st Edition
By Naila Keleta-Mae
October 09, 2024
This book examines three years of Beyoncé’s career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. The book explores how the careful choreography of Beyoncé’s image, voice and public persona, coupled with her intelligent use of audio and visual mediums, makes...
Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic
1st Edition
By Ciara L. Murphy
October 09, 2024
This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines how moments of significant change influence not only the content of performance practice but also the form ...
Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play: Tradition as Trademark
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Mohr, Julia Stenzel
October 09, 2024
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards. Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology initiate an interdisciplinary discussion of ...
The Immersive Theatre of GAle GAtes
1st Edition
By Daniella Mooney
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on experimental theatre company, GAle GAtes, credited as "the true innovator" of the contemporary immersive movement. The Immersive Theatre of GAle GAtes is a case-study of this little-known but visionary company, with a focus on its development and dramaturgy. Through rare ...
Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change: Activist Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Emer O'Toole
October 08, 2024
This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as backdrop to examine relationships between activism and contemporary Irish theatre and performance. It studies art explicitly ...
Transcultural Theater
1st Edition
By Günther Heeg
October 08, 2024
Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and practices of xenophobia worldwide, this ...
Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary Dance
1st Edition
By Eric Mullis
October 07, 2024
Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance. It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume ...
Crisis and Communitas: Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera
October 04, 2024
This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes. This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully ...
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way
October 04, 2024
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so,...
Performing Human Consciousness: A Philosophical Investigation into the Staging of the Mind
1st Edition
By Vanessa Dodd
September 30, 2024
Is the mind like a theatrical performance? This comparison has often been used as a conceptual tool by neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists in trying to understand what constitutes the human mind, and in particular how the comings and goings and the character transformations on the stage...
The Human Touch: Redefining the Art of British Contemporary Improvisational Theatre
1st Edition
By Chloé Arros
September 27, 2024
The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, and their relationships to each other. Vulnerability is a main feature of ...