Theatre studies

Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result.

This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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 world.

This book explores relationships between intermedial theater, consciousness, memory, objects, subjectivity, and affect through productive engagement with the performance aesthetics, socio-cognitive theory, and critical methodology of transversal poetics alongside other leading philosophical approaches to performance.

This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre.

This monograph is the first study to critically examine works of performance made for an audience of one.

Is directing an art?

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture.

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter's overtly political activity.

How is dramatherapy practised?

This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane's Blasted and Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski's acting company, Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training.

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries.

Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present.

An essential introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the key processes involved in developing and managing a theatre in the 21st century.

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America.

The acting process is an interlocking trinity: the person, the actor, and the character.

One of the world's leading children's dramatists provides a practical handbook of the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences of children.

Emanuel Goldenberg was born in Romania and from the age of ten grew up in New York's Lower East Side.

This updated edition of Costumes for the Stage aims at simplicity in all aspects of designing and making costumes.

This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student.

This collection of essays by a team of internationally respected researchers at the cutting edge of translation studies was inspired by the idea of "e;writing forward"e; as a strategy for theatre translation proposed by David Johnston, the award-winning translator and scholar.

Children will get an inside look at Vietnam's vibrant culture, while learning through fun, hands-on games, songs, and activities!

In order to create a living character on the stage, the actor needs more than masterful technique.

Too often directors and stage designers approach the architectural layout of theatres as obstructive to the creative process.

Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing.

This comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice.

Here is a practical, accessible introduction to one of the most complex jobs in theatre.

One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887.

The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context.

Inspired by the real life post-divorce experiences of television comedy writer Danny Simon, The Odd Couple has touched multiple generations of fans.

Harold Rome was a composer and lyricist on Broadway, starting with Pins and Needles in 1937.

Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore.

What do Bono, Seinfeld and Apple have in common?

By 1865, at the age of 26, Booth had much to lose: a loving family, hosts of friends, adoring women, professional success as one of America's foremost actors, and the promise of yet more fame and fortune.

Like the age-old feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet, the enduring rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers makes for great drama.

Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility, this book presents the script of a play about prison life, and interweaves the author's creative, self-reflective text (autoethnography).

Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion.

In what ways does political trauma influence the art arising from it?

Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's major contributing artists, this book records the entire history of this distinguished theatre from its nightclub origins to its current status as a Tony Award-winning Broadway institution.

Born in rural Ohio in 1897, Beryl Halley was educated at a strict Freewill Baptist school.

Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood.

On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband.

This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.

Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century.

Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy.

The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps.