Theatre studies

Teaching Actors draws on history, literature, and original research conducted across leading drama schools in England and Australia, to offer those involved in actor training a critical framework within which to think about their work.

Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, 'Treading the bawds' analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player's co-operative.

This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'.

Alisa, Alice' is a humanely cruel and deeply moving drama, full of passion and desire.

Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright.

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains-art included.

Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography - the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery - and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations.

Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow.

Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, 'Treading the bawds' analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player's co-operative.

First published in 2002.

For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis.

This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society.

This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences.

The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers eight scenes from this rich comedy.

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production?

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production?

Loves Labors Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed to retire from women for three years.

Culturally Responsive Teaching in a High School Percussion Ensemble: Validating Immigrant Identities addresses themes of immigration, identity, and culturally responsive teaching in music education using a deep case study of Brazilian samba music in the context of a high school percussion ensemble.

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production?

We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains-art included.

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece.

King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy.

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production?

The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.

Focusing mainly on case studies from  Australia and the United States of America, this book considers how people with dementia represent themselves and are represented in 'theatre of the real' productions and care home interventions, assessing the extent to which the 'right kind' of dementia story is being affirmed or challenged.

This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603.

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective.

This book is notable for bringing together humanist schooling and familial instruction under the banner of emotions and for studying seminal works of early modern literature within this new analytical context.

This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe.

With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig's work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator.

This book explores what happens to socially committed performance when state systems of social security are dismantled.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the "e;migration crisis"e;, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015.

Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre.

Since the 1990s, Palestinian theatrical activities in the West Bank have expanded exponentially.

This volume explores the issue of collaboration: an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research.

This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement.

In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history.

This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green.

This textbook provides a global, chronological mapping of significant areas of theatre, sketched from its deepest history in the evolution of our brain's 'inner theatre' to ancient, medieval, modern, and postmodern developments.

This is a concise survey of new play projects that bring together the worlds of science and performance, and the benefits that dramaturgical praxis can bring to both disciplines.

This book revisits In-Yer-Face theatre, an explosive, energetic theatrical movement from the 1990s that introduced the world to playwrights Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Mark Ravenhill, Jez Butterworth, and many others.

Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come.

The Digital Parisian Stage Project aims to compile a corpus of plays that are representative of performances in the theaters of Paris through history.

Restaging Feminisms offers a re-encounter with the tripartite modelling of liberal, radical, and socialist feminisms foundational to establishing feminist approaches to theatre.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.

This book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia.

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core.

The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon.

This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925.

This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity - an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy.