Performance art

Female musical theatre singers produce some of the most exciting and expressive singing an audience can experience.

This new paperback edition of the The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

This play, by Futurist poet Bruno Jasienski, is an outstanding example of the joining of left-wing politics and avant-garde interest in human mechanization that characterized the experimental theatre of Poland in the inter-war years.

This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s.

This new paperback edition of the The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

As practitioner-researchers, how do we discuss and analyse our work without losing the creative drive that inspired us in the first place?

Enter the Body offers a series of provocative case studies of the work women's bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious stage.

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

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

This is the first collection of plays by award-winning playwright Oladipo Agboluaje, a significant force in Black British drama.

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women's performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology.

Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events.

From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture.

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies.

Originally published in 1982.

How is madness experienced, treated, and represented?

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.

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons.

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre.

World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre.

This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.

First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Ego was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications.

This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations of justice, diversity, and historiography in the fields of theatre and performance studies.

Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization beyond the stage.

This book offers the first look at corporate theatre, a global management trend that uses dramatic techniques in workplace learning.

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov.

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.

This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

Friendships grow in the most unlikely of places.

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire.

This book contextualizes the complexity of sexual violence within its broader context - from war to the resolution of interpersonal disputes - and covers a wide span including sexual harassment, bullying, rape and murder as well as domestic violence.

In this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners' and academic researchers' conceptions of storytelling.

Originally published in 1978.

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them.

David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman''s graph works and how they changed the course of post-war music.

Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge.

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media.

Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.

Originally published in 1988.

This book traces Dadakuada's history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa.

In the wake of Ireland s recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on the past, engaging the present, and imagining possible futures.

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

First Published in 1997.

Originally published in 1974, this book examines in detail some of the finest plays from the great cycles of York, Wakefield and Chester.

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910.

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition.