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.
Who Is In the Room?: Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director
1st Edition
By Brooke O'Harra
September 25, 2024
With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward. O’Harra investigates a series of important questions: How do we wrest our work from institutional imperatives of public ...
Applied Theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals: Crises, Collaboration, and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib, Bobby Smith
September 23, 2024
This book is the first definitive publication to consider the intersections of applied theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a series of goals which have shaped development and social justice initiatives from 2015 to 2030. It brings together emerging and leading scholars and ...
The Adaptable Degree: How Education in Theatre Supports the Economy of The Future
1st Edition
By Melanie Dreyer-Lude
September 20, 2024
This book utilized a mixed-methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction. With a population of over 1,000 participants, this study examined where graduates were working, how their careers had changed ...
Post-choreography: Jérôme Bel’s Choreography and Movement in Malfunction
1st Edition
By Shuntaro Yoshida
September 10, 2024
This book sheds light on the practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art.Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur workshop participants. The focus is on ...
Arabs, Politics, and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Roaa Ali, George Potter, Samer Al-Saber
September 06, 2024
This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre. Through three sections discussing occupation and resistance, diaspora, migration, and refugees, and nationalism and belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between Arab...
Archaeology of the Political Unconscious: Theater and Opera in East Berlin, 1967–1977
1st Edition
By Jennifer Williams
September 03, 2024
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. This volume investigates three case studies of how leading East Berlin stages ...
Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation
1st Edition
By Conrad Alexandrowicz
September 02, 2024
This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis. This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its ...
Readings of Contemporary Circus: A Dramaturgy
1st Edition
By Franziska Trapp
August 27, 2024
What are the characteristics of contemporary circus? In what way does contemporary circus differ from theater, dance, and performance? Where do hybrid forms exist? Where are there observable commonalities? Despite the diversity of contemporary circus performances, are there generalizable ...
Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage: An Exploration of Metatheatrical Techniques
1st Edition
By Rebecca Clode
August 26, 2024
This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing ...
Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight
1st Edition
By Mark Broomfield
August 20, 2024
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden ...
The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage: 1660–1720
1st Edition
By Anne Leah Greenfield
August 19, 2024
This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth century: sexual violence. During this sixty-year span, there were over fifty tragic and tragi-comedic productions that showcased rape and/or attempted rape—a remarkable number that ...
Theatre and Human Rights: The Politics of Dramatic Form
1st Edition
By Gary M. English
August 09, 2024
This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations...