Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre
1st Edition
By Colleen Rua
December 18, 2024
This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This book argues that the historical trajectory of these musicals has formed a canon of works that have reiterated, resisted or transformed experiences of ...
Performing Religion on the Secular Stage
1st Edition
By Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
December 18, 2024
This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde ...
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects: Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities, Consecrating Acts, Priestly Puppeteers
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Orenstein, Tim Cusack
December 18, 2024
This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, historically and throughout the globe, many uses of puppets and related objects have ...
Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Tancredi Gusman
December 18, 2024
This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understanding of it. Performance art emerged internationally between the 1960s and 1970s crossing disciplinary boundaries between performing arts and visual arts. ...
Techniques of Illusion: A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Katharina Rein
December 18, 2024
This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their ...
(M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynn Deboeck, Aoise Stratford
November 28, 2024
This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and ...
1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking
1st Edition
By Emily LeQuesne
November 28, 2024
What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it? 1000 Ways to Ask Why is a practical how-to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers. This book introduces The Mosaic Scale ...
Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space: (in)dependent Scenes
1st Edition
By Alexandra Baybutt
November 28, 2024
This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional project ‘Nomad Dance Academy’ (NDA), and highlights collective approaches to sustain a ...
Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021: Landmarks of South African Theatre History
1st Edition
Edited
By Phyllis Klotz, Smal Ndaba
November 28, 2024
This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to ...
Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors
1st Edition
By Bill Gelber
November 07, 2024
Based on the author’s decades of teaching, pedagogical and theatrical research, and his professional experience as actor and director, Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors offers a pedagogical approach to rehearsal scenes as a primary tool for diagnosis and ...
Teaching Dance Improvisation: A Beginner's Guide
1st Edition
By Matthew Farmer
October 22, 2024
Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author’s theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique. By taking a similar approach to teaching ballet, modern, jazz, tap, or hip hop, this book supplies its reader with an ...
Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Pettersen Lantz, Angela Sweigart-Gallagher
October 14, 2024
Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance explores how children and young people fit into national political theatre and, moreover, how youth enact interrogative, patriotic, and/or antagonistic performances as they develop their own relationship with nationhood. Children are often seen as ...