Forthcoming Theatre & Performance Studies Books
Theatre and Performance Design
A Reader in Scenography
Theatre and Performance Design: a reader in scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices....
March 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43210-8 (Routledge)
Three Plays by Aristophanes
Staging Women
These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen,...
April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87131-0 (Routledge)
Acting: The Basics
Acting: The Basics is a practical and theoretical guide to the world of the professional actor, skilfully combining ideas from a range of practitioners and...
April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46101-6 (Routledge)
The Fashion History Reader
Global Perspectives
The Fashion History Reader is an innovative work that provides a broad introduction to the complex literature in the fields of fashion studies, and dress...
April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49324-6 (Routledge)
Jana Sanskriti
Forum Theatre and Democracy in India
Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the...
April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57752-6 (Routledge)
The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare
The Routledge Companion to Director’s Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of...May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57767-0 (Routledge)
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Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work
The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski
Zygmunt Molik is one of the last living members of Jerzy Grotowski’s original acting company and was a leading trainer at the Teatr Laboratorium. Zygmunt...
May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56847-0 (Routledge)
A Choreographer's Handbook
On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"
On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules...
May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55530-2 (Routledge)
ORLAN
A Hybrid Body of Artworks
ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is the first academic study of ORLAN's pioneering art. The book covers her entire career in performance and a...
May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56234-8 (Routledge)
Engaging Performance
Theatre as call and response
Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine ‘socially engaged performance’. It offers a range of key practical...
July 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47214-2 (Routledge)
Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook
From Modernism to Contemporary Performance
The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook is a groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre, from the late Nineteenth Century...
July 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46662-2 (Routledge)
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Maria Irene Fornes
July 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45435-3 (Routledge)
Notes From An Odin Actress
Stones of Water
"As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both...
July 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58629-0 (Routledge)
Acting: The First Six Lessons
Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre
Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher...
July 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56386-4 (Routledge)
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major canonical playwright. A century after his death the genius of Chekhov's...
August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41144-8 (Routledge)
August Strindberg
August Strindberg – dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, painter, and essayist – was above all one of the most radical innovators of Western theatre, whose exceptionally...
August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41423-4 (Routledge)
William Forsythe
William Forsythe is one of the most, if not the most, important choreographers of the last 25 years. As director of the Frankfurt Ballet (1984-2004)...August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97823-1 (Routledge)
Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
What does it mean to 'fail' in performance? Or, what do performances founded upon the collapse of their own invention illuminate that other modes of...
August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58565-1 (Routledge)
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Russians in Britain
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-59100-3 (Routledge)
The Vakhtangov Sourcebook
Yevgeny Vakhtangov was the creator of Fantastic Realism, credited with reconciling Meyerhold’s bold experiments with Stanislavski’s naturalist technique. The Vakhtangov Sourcebook compiles new translations of...
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48257-8 (Routledge)
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