Theatre studies Books

This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of socially-engaged artistic practices to the...

In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the "affective turn in...

This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the...

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission,...

This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphorical practice. Deftly tracing these themes through community theater groups, ancient Greek theater,...

This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new...

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres...

Bringing together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, this open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and television performers within the contemporary Italian screen...

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography transformed...

This book is about dance's relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language's affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompany one...

Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman's body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and...

This book takes choreographer William Forsythe's choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it...

This book explores the notion of home in the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, and asks how home and belonging can be rethought through the act of creative practices and collective writing with refugees and asylum seekers. Where Giorgio Agamben calls...

This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers' representation in theatre. Importantly, its scope comprises a critical period of national and organisational development, beginning with the Partition...

This book examines the dynamics of the relational and spatial politics of contemporary French theatrical production, with a focus on four theatres in the Greater Paris region. It situates these dynamics within the intersection of the histories of the...

This book makes a compelling case for 'performance fieldwork' as a vital new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration. Refocussing the histories and practices of field research, it shows how creative methods and artistic processes can contribute to an...

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK. It reviews the existing state of...

This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American productions from 1924-1970. It argues that during this period...

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written. Unlike most playwrights of previous generations, the writers of British Romantic dramas generally did not work in the...

This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s. The four plays under consideration are White...

This book investigates the role of arts practitioners in cultural policy-making, challenging the perception that arts practitioners have little or no involvement in policy and seeking to discover the extent and form of their engagement. Examining the...

The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by...

Anne, septuagénaire, décide de se séparer des objets qui encombrent son grenier. Le brocanteur refuse ses vieilleries. Mais le jeune hommequi l'accompagne revient avec Juan, son grand-père, chercher lesdeux violons.Des inscriptions sur l'un des violons...

Qui n'a jamais songé à tout quitter, pour tout recommencer ? Disparaître pour refaire totalement sa vie. Martin Terrien a l'opportunité de franchir ce pas. Grâce à la société Data Face, il est effacé socialement et numériquement. Il se voit libre mais...

Dans cet ouvrage pratique, d'abord publié en Russie, puis en Angleterre, Declan Donnellan, un scalpel à la main, opère au cœur de l'acteur, y dénouant le jeu de ses entraves. Il s'y livre à une approche rafraîchissante et radicale, dans laquelle tout...

Lena is on a mission to veganise her Tinder dates. Multiple conquests later, Lena finds herself looking for her next victim - but what happens when her life starts to rapidly crumble around her?Meat Cute explores the trials and tribulations of activism...

Laban's The Mastery of Movement on the Stage, first published in 1950, quickly came to be accepted as the standard work on his conception of human move­ment. When he died, Laban was in the process of preparing a new edition of the book, and so for some...

Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror...

This volume engages with the ambivalence embedded in and materialized by waste, its ambiguous ownership, and temporalities, interrogating popular and normative notions of waste and discard, and offering insight into forms of ecology built around waste -...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedic play that weaves together the stories of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and the magical fairies who inhabit a mystical forest. Set against the backdrop of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta's upcoming...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedic play that weaves together the stories of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and the magical fairies who inhabit a mystical forest. Set against the backdrop of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta's upcoming...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedic play that weaves together the stories of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and the magical fairies who inhabit a mystical forest. Set against the backdrop of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta's upcoming...

2017 Reprint of 1963 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  “An iconoclastic handbook of theater by the high priestess of improvisational theater in this country… ...

Lin's plays take us back to her early years in the 50's and 60's. Bringing to life homey and humorous details of the era.

Drama teachers everywhere enjoyed Ms. Johnson's first survival kit so much that she wrote another one While the first book focuses on everything about a complete stage production, this one covers every aspect of classroom theatre arts. Students will lear

Far more than simply an overview of improv comedy, this book helps actors, writers and comedians learn the basics as taught in all the major comedy schools. First, the do's and don'ts of the Comedy Improv Commandments. The concepts that, when...

Esta obra de teatro en dos actos, "El tiro postergado", basada en "" (Vystrel - El disparo) de Alexandr Serguéievich Pushkin, examina el tema de la venganza en el contexto de la cultura de los duelos en la Rusia posnapoleónica. Tres amigos de la...

This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors...

First Published in 1997. The essays in this volume are revisions, in some cases substantial, to the 1995 Sherman Lectures which the author delivered at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

This new edition of Roberta Uno's wide-ranging Monologues for Actors of Color now includes more of the most exciting and accomplished playwrights to have emerged over the 15 years since the first edition was published, from new, cutting edge talent...

Jerzy Grotowski's Journeys to the East　is an unusual collection of facts, quotations, and commentaries documenting the real and metaphorical journeys of the Polish theatre director and 'teacher of performers' into a geographical and cultural dimension...

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century presents a wide range of viewpoints on the musical theatre profession. It brings together research from the UK, US, Australia and beyond, providing an essential resource for educators, students,...

Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.

A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum (1988) surveys the syllabuses for schoolchildren in the Soviet education system following the reforms of 1984. Every subject in the common timetable is covered, and teaching methods, hopes for the future and continuing...

Russian Theater (1963) is a comprehensive study of the main trends in Russian theatre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from romantic drama through realistic drama, the modernist movement to an analysis of trends under the Soviets and the rise...

First Published in 2000, Recording Women documents the work of three leading feminist theatre companies, Sphinx Theatre Company, Scarlett Theatre and Foresight Theatre, through a combination of interviews with theatre practitioners and detailed...