Forthcoming Theatre & Performance Studies Books
The 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...
August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46662-2 (Routledge)
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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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Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon
The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon...
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-78166-4 (Routledge)
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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...
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41144-8 (Routledge)
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and...
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46587-8 (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)
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...
October 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41423-4 (Routledge)
Choreographing Empathy
Kinesthesia in Performance
"This is a urgently needed book – as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan...
November 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-59656-5 (Routledge)
Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill is the first book to provide a detailed analysis of the work of arguably the most important dramatist to have emerged from the...
December 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37511-5 (Routledge)
Brian Friel
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48264-6 (Routledge)
Performing Remains
Theatricality, Civil War, Performance Art, Reenactment
Re:enactment is a collection of essays from one of Performance Studies' leading scholars, exploring the role of the fake, the false and the faux in...
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40442-6 (Routledge)
Radical Performance Pedagogy
Exercises for Rebel Artists and Border Crossers
In Radical Performance Pedagogy, Guillermo Gomez-Pena uses his extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create ‘border...
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54923-3 (Routledge)
Voice: Onstage and Off
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58558-3 (Routledge)
The Singing and Acting Handbook
Games and Exercises for the Performer
February 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44146-9 (Routledge)
Supporting Roles
At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, at a time when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the...
February 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48601-9 (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)...February 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97823-1 (Routledge)
Twentieth Century Performance
An Introduction
February 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33460-0 (Routledge)
Performance Inc
Global Performativity and Mediated Resistance
March 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77419-2 (Routledge)
Caryl Churchill
One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write...
March 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34578-1 (Routledge)
Maria Irene Fornes
March 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45435-3 (Routledge)
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