Theatre studies

Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1989, to be a city in transition.

This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre.

How can war be represented on stage?

This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville.

In early modern Spain, the strict definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman of Catholic faith for the sole purpose of procreation became a key strategy in the production of Spain's version of empire, the Universal Catholic Monarchy.

An invaluable collection of documents and discussions of the work of one of the most significant theatre practitioners of the last fifty years.

The daily life of Bonnie Bird, as an American modern dancer in the 1930s, is uniquely revealed in this book.

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.

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players.

King John's evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare's portrayal of him.

The creative and cultural industries are a dynamic and rapidly expanding field of enterprise.

Delve into the dynamic interplay of theater and society in 18th-century London with Box, Pit, and Gallery: Stage and Society in Johnson's London.

Vectorworks for Entertainment Design covers the complete design process for using Vectorworks in entertainment industry from developing ideas, visualizing ideas, and evolving them for execution.

This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography.

Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character.

By the time of his death in 2018, Tom Murphy was widely recognised as one of Ireland's most important modern playwrights.

In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U.

Updated edition of The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, introducing new voices and themes.

Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the 'new wars' of the global era.

Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in which characters sing existing popular songs as one of their modes of communication.

Now in its third edition, this useful guide outlines the techniques needed to achieve success in the challenging process of getting work.

Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill the demand for distraction from the workers' daily toil soon followed.

What happens when stories meet mobile media?

This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice.

Practicing Archetype addresses performer training, specifically the self-pedagogy of actors who train solo, on their own, as an independent learning process, an opportunity for embodied research, and a form of critical pedagogy.

Alice Marshall explores the question 'What do you think entertainment is?

Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives and various compositional strategies.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond.

Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London.

What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society?

A doorway to a new future is ready to open.

The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's civic life.

Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This first comprehensive study unites musical, literary, documentary and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel''s compositional practice.

Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways.

The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre.

Ethnotheatre transforms research about human experiences into a dramatic presentation for an audience.

This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance.

First Published in 2005.

Inspired by a series of debates at the Conference of Women Theatre Directors and Administrators, the articles in this issue record the history of women in the theatre and honour their accomplishments.

Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons?

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Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate change.

As one of the most well-known names in theatre history, Konstantin Stanislavsky's teachings on actor training have endured throughout the decades, influencing scholars and practitioners even in the present day.

This is Volume 7, Part I of the Contemporary Theatre Review, an International Journal, with this edition focusing on Prescence and pre-expressivity.

Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.

Performing Power explores 18th-century fabrication of the royal image by focusing on the example of King Gustav III (1746-1792) - one of Sweden's most acclaimed and controversial monarchs - who conspicuously chose theater as the primary media for his image-making and role construction.