Performance art

This is a critical edition, or "e;edition critique,"e; of Victor Hugo's play Hernani.

This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen's plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation.

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice.

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective.

This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles.

First Published in 1996.

Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion.

Perhaps best known for his classic movie lines, such as Fill your hands, you sons-of-bitches!

First published in 1978.

Who was Dan Leno?

Western civilization and world history are often seen as different, or even mutually exclusive, routes into historical studies.

Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations.

This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist, and TV host Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) that identifies him as a practitioner of realism in the theater and lays out how theatrical realism can offer an aesthetic frame sturdy enough to hold together his experiments across media and genres.

Drawing on Ken Rea's 35 years' teaching experience and research, as well as interviews with top actors and directors, The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help nurture those qualities and videos to demonstrate them.

First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice.

In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.

Le Theatre du Soleil traces the company's history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their political commitment to a creative strategy, to their grappling with the concerns of migration, separation and exile in the early decades of the twenty-first century.

'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired.

The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident.

Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists.

Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-assessment of women's contributions to Asian performance traditions, focusing for the first time on their specific historical, cultural and performative contexts.

Martin Iddon discusses one of the twentieth century''s most provocative musical collaborations: between composer John Cage and pianist David Tudor.

For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition.

Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies.

At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture.

This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK.

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama.

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand's dance cultures and their place in today's world.

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world in which we live.

Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare's plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice.

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change.

This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice.

First Published in 1987.

Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and provides inclusive approaches to navigating gender and sexuality in a way that does not reduce the broad spectrum of LGBTQ+ communities into a single monolith.

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.

The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick.

The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.

Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced, while a Director of the Old Vic from 1949 to 1953.

Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved.

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death shines a spotlight on what theater, and especially tragedy, tells us about our ontological selves, by exploring both Euripides' Bacchae and the work of Tadeusz Kantor.

Whether creating Broadway musicals, experimental dramas, or outrageous comedies, the performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the representation of LGBTQ lives and culture in a variety of theatrical venues, both within the queer community and across the US theatrical landscape.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "e;Iranian-ness"e; in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdez's exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovator.

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky.

Performing Consumers is an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded superstores.

This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage.

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that year's Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant return of the American musical.

Stanislavsky and Intimacy is the first academic edited book with a focus on how intimacy protocols, choreography, and theories intersect with the broad practices of Konstantin Stanislavsky's 'system'.