Performance Theory

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

What does immersive theatre ‘do’?_x005F_x000D_ By contrasting two specific performances on the same theme - one an 'immersive' experience and the other a more conventional theatrical production - Nandita Dinesh explores the different ways in which theatrical form impacts upon actors and audiences. A..

Focuses on Moliere's theatre as works to be performed as well as read. The essays deal with the limits which are imposed and respected or violated and broken. The question of transgression, a subject within Moliere's plays and dilemma confronting Moliere's critics and interpreters, is addressed...

These essays develop the argument that Moliere needs to be rescued from the pantheon of classical literature and put back on the Pont-Neuf with the strolling players, low-life rogues, cut-purses and clowns with whom he filled his theatre...

A collection of essays, memoirs and plays that represent an early attempt to assess and reassess the German Democratic Republic's theatre following the political events and turning points of 1989 and afterwards. Contributors include Christoph Funke, Carl Weber and Jost Herand...

What can theatre do ecologically? This book seeks to answer that question by asking leading researchers and practitioners in the field to respond to this provocation from a number of different perspective and methodologies. It was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in ..

This collection asks what’s at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian c..

This ambitious work addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Taking in such varied platforms for performance as social networking, reality television and sport events, Performance in the Twenty-first Century represents a much-needed critical gathering and clarification..

This ambitious work addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Taking in such varied platforms for performance as social networking, reality television and sport events, Performance in the Twenty-first Century represents a much-needed critical gathering and clarification..

This new and improved second edition includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. It provides a lively and accessible overview for undergraduates and graduate students...