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.
America Under the Influence: Drinking, Culture, and Immersive Performance
1st Edition
By Chloë Rae Edmonson
December 18, 2024
In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space and practice. Combining archival research with firsthand ...
Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter
December 18, 2024
This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divided into three sections: History-cal Violence, (Un)Comic Violence, and Revenge Violence. This division allows scholars to easily find intertextual ...
Bourdieu in the Studio: Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism
1st Edition
By Evi Stamatiou
December 18, 2024
This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how actor training uniquely combines elements of education and culture. It is the first practical and rigorous investigation of Pierre Bourdieu’s idea that ...
Contemporary Storytelling Performance: Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences
1st Edition
By Stephe Harrop
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, ...
Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre
1st Edition
By Phoebe Rumsey
December 18, 2024
Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in ...
Independent Performing Arts in Europe: Establishment and Survival of an Emerging Field
1st Edition
By Thomas Fabian Eder
December 18, 2024
This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the field. This book presents a neo-institutional examination of the organizational field including its routines, scripts, and expectations which provides a ...
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 ...