Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism.
Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mah..
Presents detailed analysis of a wide range of plays by British women dramatists from the last two decades. It will be invaluable reading for students ..
Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performan..
Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. Richard Be..
By focusing on the work of a number of major choreographers, companies and critics, McFee explores the nature of our understanding of dance. He provid..
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 p..
This is a long-awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding lesbian pe..
Solomon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with a..
Site-Specific Art is the first major study of site-specific theatre and performance in North America and Europe since the 1950s. This volume is an ast..
The first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre culture and postmodern performance. Kershaw argues that the former is largel..