Performance Theory

39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything...

Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. Richard Beacham brings together for the first time, selections from all his major works...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theatre - both traditional and contemporary..

This book looks at four performances in Africa and uses these to question the tendency in much western and non-western scholarship the idea that cultures produce the kind of performances that satisfy the aesthetic and social needs of people...

This book looks at four performances in Africa and uses these to question the tendency in much western and non-western scholarship the idea that cultures produce the kind of performances that satisfy the aesthetic and social needs of people...

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham...

This book offers dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with liveness through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. With contributions from theatre, music, dance, and performance art, it explores how liveness is produced through proces..

Recovers the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. Leggatt relates this drama to the popular culture of the day, concluding with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear...

Recovers the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. Leggatt relates this drama to the popular culture of the day, concluding with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear...

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre...

Beginning with Richard Drew’s controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation. _x005F_x000D_ By presenting engaging and divers..