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.
Shakespeare's 'Method' for Actors: As Revealed in The First Folio 1623
1st Edition
By Christine Ozanne
September 22, 2025
By using only the First Folio text, this book acts as an original guide to performing Shakespeare’s plays. This book is the accumulation of the many Clues from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (as opposed to any edited version) that help to inform contemporary performances and offers a ...
Temporary Stages III: How High School Theatre Fosters Spiritual Strength and Critical Consciousness
1st Edition
By Jo Beth Gonzalez
September 01, 2025
Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves. Recognizing divergence invites self-reflection and kindles compassion. These actions tap students’ inner cores while at the same time deepening their understanding of privilege, a key component of critical...
Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume I
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin
August 29, 2025
This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seenthrough the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the largertheoretical debates about whether and how performance remains. Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance,Performance: ...
Experimental Xiqu Performances Endure: A Soft Touch of the Wounds with Interweaving Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Lin Chen
August 22, 2025
This book offers a detailed, comprehensive, and theoretically grounded study of experimental xiqu performances that have taken place in recent decades across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and online platforms. Situating these performances within their specific socio-political contexts and ...
The Inherent Potential in Art Performance: To Critically Challenge Art Traditions in Scenes of Love and Sexual Desire
1st Edition
By Iris Julian
August 13, 2025
This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research ...
Circus for Social Change: Social Circus in Context
1st Edition
By Katie Lavers, Jon Burtt, Emmanuel Bochud
August 10, 2025
In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ways of engaging with the field. Lavers, Burtt, and Bochud investigate the way that Social Circus transforms in response to its immediate environment, and particularly its social,...
Actor Trainers on Acting: For the Twenty First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna McNamara
August 04, 2025
Actor Trainers on Acting is a comprehensive, diverse and forwardthinking examination of the craft of acting written by leading experts from across the world. The book reflects on the evolving relationship between actor training and the contemporary and future world and considers how directly actor ...
Black Women Centre Stage: Diasporic Solidarity in Contemporary Black British Theatre
1st Edition
By Paola Prieto López
June 27, 2025
This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK. Through the concept of creative diasporic solidarity, it offers an innovative theoretical approach to examine the ways in which the playwrights respond ...
Burning Man: Learning from Heterotopia
1st Edition
By Linda Noveroske-Tritten
June 27, 2025
This book centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change. With particular focus on the Ten Principles of Burning Man, Linda Noveroske-Tritten posits a re-interpretation of common notions of "self" and "other" as they apply to...
Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor: A Guide for Actors and Directors
1st Edition
By John Gribas, Angeline Underwood
June 27, 2025
Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the characters they play. Grounded in a contemporary approach to understanding and applying the power of metaphor, it offers a practical guide for both actors and directors. This book ...
Of Kings and Clowns: Leadership in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre Since 1967
1st Edition
By Tiran Manucharyan
June 27, 2025
This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967. Through detailed analyses of the plays, the book investigates the ways Egyptian theatre represents, formulates, and imagines political and cultural leadership and, by implication, enacts its own leadership. Alongside ...
Screened Stages: On Theatre in Film
1st Edition
By Rachel Joseph
June 27, 2025
This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages. A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically ...