Theatre studies

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance.

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance?

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.

Wie wollen wir zukünftig leben und arbeiten?

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649-1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain.

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.

Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks.

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia.

Drawing on the author's two decades of seeing, writing on, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this book offers a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.

Malone, in the eighteenth century, came up with a method for determining Shakespeare''s chronology that was wrong: we have been using it ever since.

With its groundbreaking score, unabashed romanticism, and scrappy sensibility, Rent was like a firecracker thrown into a hushed theater, turning heads and upending conventions.

All songs were written with NWC Noteworthy Composer.

Rice''s practice as theatre-maker, her ethics of affirmation and contribution to queer worldmaking, is theorised as feminist acts of love.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c.

Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising is the first book to compile new and adapted exercises for teaching playwriting in the classroom, workshop, or studio through the lens of acting and improvisation.

From A Midsummer Night's Dream's Puck to Othello's Desdemona, this new edition of Speaking Shakespeare gives you all the necessary tools to bring any of Shakespeare's eclectic characters to life.

An essential source of reference for researchers trying to uncover the theatrical experience of one of their forebears.

This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre - a feat which has not been attempted before.

This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre - a feat which has not been attempted before.

This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy.

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the production and reception of theatrical performances.

YOU, THE CHOREOGRAPHER, Creating and Crafting Dance offers a synthesis of histories, theories, philosophies, and creative practices across diverse genres of concert dance choreography.

This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy.

Futures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education.

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.

How do theatre and development partnerships operate?

Directing for Community Theatre is a primer for the amateur director working in community theatre.

The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean.

Shakespeare in Cuba: Caliban's Books explores how Shakespeare is consumed and appropriated in Cuba.

Digital Shakespeares from the Global South re-directs current conversations on digital appropriations of Shakespeare away from its Anglo-American bias.

In this book, each chapter explores significant Irish texts in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts.

This book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance.

This is the first book length study of performance activism.

In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O'Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire.

This book explores the concept and vocabulary of postdramatic theatre from a pedagogical perspective.

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism.

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing.

The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume.

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This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies.

Scenic automation has earned a reputation of being complicated and cantankerous, a craft best left to the elite of our industry.

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience.