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 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 ...
Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter
December 18, 2024
This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divided into three sections: History-cal Violence, (Un)Comic Violence, and Revenge Violence. This division allows scholars to easily find intertextual ...
Bourdieu in the Studio: Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism
1st Edition
By Evi Stamatiou
December 18, 2024
This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how actor training uniquely combines elements of education and culture. It is the first practical and rigorous investigation of Pierre Bourdieu’s idea that ...
Contemporary Storytelling Performance: Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences
1st Edition
By Stephe Harrop
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, ...
Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre
1st Edition
By Phoebe Rumsey
December 18, 2024
Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in ...
Independent Performing Arts in Europe: Establishment and Survival of an Emerging Field
1st Edition
By Thomas Fabian Eder
December 18, 2024
This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the field. This book presents a neo-institutional examination of the organizational field including its routines, scripts, and expectations which provides a ...