Theatre & Performance Studies

An indispensable reference tool for all theatre scholars and students, this book surveys theatre in more than thirty countries from India to Thailand, from Uzbekistan to New Zealand and from Australia to China, and is lavishly illustrated throughout...

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century..

Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment...

This wide-ranging study explores the research fields of performance and theatre studies, new media and digital culture studies, and art and aesthetics and reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena...

The author offers a glimpse into contemporary China's golden age of drama. During the 1980s, the stage became an arena for exploring long-suppressed cultural and political issues. This anthology contains four dramas and a film script published and produced in the People's Republic of China...

This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s...

An examination of the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history, drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological material...

Providing Czertok’s own, highly personal account of his trajectory in the global scene of theatre-making over the past half-century, this is a book about the theatre of exile – a theatre of streets, prisons, hospitals, open to direct and unexpected encounters with audiences and their life-experience..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Examining a range of material and theoretical approaches, this is a unique take on theory and the physical reality of theatre that fills a gap in the literary and drama studies field, and which breaks new ground in the study of performance theory...

Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art, re-theorizing the exhibition as a dynamic context in which established traditions of display and performance interact. It as..

Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic study of Eugenio Barba's work, including his training methods, dramaturgy, productions, and theories as well as his work at the International School of Theatre Anthropology...