Performance art

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century.

Devising Theatre and Performance is a hands-on guide for artists, students and teachers of performance at any stage of their practice.

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.

In this compilation, first published in 1999, Ian Ledsham compiles an extensive catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection, complete with diagrams regarding how we use text.

Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis.

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance.

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.

Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years.

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.

Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism).

This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era's destabilization of shared notions of truth.

First Published in 2002.

Includes the playsThe Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent, A Sleep of Prisoners, Thor, With Angels, The Boy With a Cart, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of BellsThe third volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The Firstborn, a vivid, urgent retelling of the Biblical story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays, each revealing Fry's unique blend of humour and humanity.

What is dramaturgy?

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'Actors always talk about what the audience does.

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty.

Originally published in 1968.

Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on the Broadway stage.

Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches invites readers to think about pedagogy in actor training as a research field in its own right: to sit with the complex challenges, risks, and rewards of the acting studio; to recognise the shared vulnerability, courage, and love that defines our field and underpins our practices.

Does satire have the ability to effect social reform?

This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community.

Ibsen's plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century.

Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko.

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

This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul's Drag Race.

How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words?

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

This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on the Broadway stage.

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.

This book examines three years of Beyonce's career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty.

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre.

This book explores drag performance in London since 2009 via the pubs, bars and clubs that make LGBTQ+ communities thrive.

Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective whose primary proposition is that theatre is a type of music.

Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all three of these storytelling forms: the theatre, museums and historic sites, and video games.

Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent activist, embodied and collective natures.

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner.

This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe.

First published in 1969.

What are the characteristics of contemporary circus?

Voice Studies brings together leading international scholars and practitioners, to re-examine what voice is, what voice does, and what we mean by "e;voice studies"e; in the process and experience of performance.

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

The Art of Broadsword Fighting for Stage and Screen provides historical and contemporary techniques and styles for the safe training and use of the European broadsword in a theatrical setting.

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today.