Theatre studies

A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer's play Equus.

Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts?

Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement.

This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and theatrical reception over four centuries.

On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York.

This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s.

Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.

Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett's rich influences over American writing.

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows.

Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations bridges the fields of performance, feminism, maternal studies, and ethics.

Unions, Strikes, Shaw: 'The Capitalism of the Proletariat' is the first book to treat Bernard Shaw-socialist, dramatist, public speaker and union member-in relation to unions and strikes.

Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight.

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw's Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama.

This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance.

Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self.

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell'Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original.

This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b - 1977d).

This book examines applied theatre projects that bring together diverse groups and foster intercultural dialogue.

This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers' representation in theatre.

El volumen II de 'El ciclo ruso', de Matei Visniec, reúne dos obras que constituyen sendos homenajes a Chéjov.

El volumen I de 'El ciclo ruso' reúne dos obras de Matei Visniec ambientadas en la Rusia estalinista.

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360(deg) view on the circus.

Political theatre, like any kind of political action, can only be judged in relation to the political moment in which it tries to intervene.

Dorothy Madden's lively book about Louis Horst (You don't call me Mr.

The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology.

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a prolific playwright with more than thirty plays to his credit.

The accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences.

Political theatre, like any kind of political action, can only be judged in relation to the political moment in which it tries to intervene.

Dorothy Madden's lively book about Louis Horst (You don't call me Mr.

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season.

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated on by the editors and contributors of this book.

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated on by the editors and contributors of this book.

As one of the world's leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us discover our own unique need for words.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

Durante las últimas dos décadas del siglo XX, los teatros de todo el mundo gozaron de una dinámica generalizada de innovación, experimentación y connivencia creativa con las artes literarias, visuales, musicales y dancísticas.

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360(deg) view on the circus.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a prolific playwright with more than thirty plays to his credit.

¡Hola activista!

'Another fabulous and entertaining read.

This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy.

The accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences.

El presente volumen contiene una nueva traducción de La gaviota y El tío Vania, dos textos emblemáticos de Antón Pávlovich Chéjov (1860-1904), uno de los más grandes dramaturgos modernos, cuyas obras hacen parte del repertorio escénico mundial y son referentes imprescindibles para la comprensión del denominado sistema Stanislavski, desarrollado por el gran director y pedagogo ruso, quien asoció la puesta en escena de las obras chejovianas a sus indagaciones (específicamente al denominado "análisis activo").

In How to Audition On Camera, Casting Director Sharon Bialy answers the twenty-five questions actors ask most frequently about how to nail an audition.

El presente volumen contiene el texto dramático y las partituras de El bosque sobre el bosque, las sombras de Humboldt~Farsa operática, espectáculo de gran formato, mencionado por el diario El Tiempo dentro de lo mejor de la cultura en el 2019.

Manifeste, Pamphlete, Proklamationen, Anweisungen – österreichische Künstler:innen waren in den Jahren 1945 bis 1975 nicht nur auf der Bühne und in Galerien, in Kellern, auf der Straße und öffentlichen Plätzen mit Happenings, Aktionen, Performances und Aufführungen ideenreich zugange, sondern sie meldeten sich auch schriftlich zu Wort.

Some of the most raucous evenings in the history of theater are chronicled in this lively discussion of occasions when theater-makers changed the course of theatrical, and sometimes world, history.

A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna's Burgtheater.

A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna's Burgtheater.