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.
Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Peck, Evi Stamatiou
August 01, 2024
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 ...
Sophia Robot: Post Human Being
1st Edition
By Thomas Riccio
June 14, 2024
This book considers David Hanson’s robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots. Mechanical beings have occupied the human imagination since antiquity. Now, they inhabit the pop-cultural imagination, embodying the ...
A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Activators, Activists, Archives, All
1st Edition
By Joey Orr
May 27, 2024
A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works. This book reorients well-known works of contemporary performance and social practice around the workers who have shaped, enacted, and supported them. It emerges from perspectives on ...
Appropriations of Irish Drama in Modern Korean Nationalist Theatre
1st Edition
By Hunam Yun
May 27, 2024
This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised. By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this study shows how the intervention of the competing agents – both the ...
Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance
1st Edition
By Hongwei Bao
May 27, 2024
In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. This book documents various forms of queer performance – including music, film, theatre, and political activism – in the first two decades of the twenty first century. In doing so, Bao argues ...
Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Carla Fernandes, Vito Evola, Cláudia Ribeiro
May 27, 2024
Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication is the result of a collaborative and transdisciplinary effort towards a first definition of "dance data", with its complexities and contradictions, in a time where cognitive science is growing in parallel to the need of a renewed awareness of the ...
Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance: Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts
1st Edition
By Telory D Arendell
May 27, 2024
This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this journey with a brief history of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Living Newspapers through ...
Harold Pinter's Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter
1st Edition
By Charles Morton
May 27, 2024
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright. This exploration traces Shakespeare’s influence through Pinter’s pre-theatre writings (1950-1956), to his collaboration with Sir Peter Hall (starting properly at the RSC in 1962 and continuing until 1983),...
In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism
1st Edition
By Sukanya Chakrabarti
May 27, 2024
This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing ...
Mothering Performance: Maternal Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee
May 27, 2024
Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as...
Rapa Nui Theatre: Staging Indigenous Identities in Easter Island
1st Edition
By Moira Fortin Cornejo
May 27, 2024
This book examines the relationships between theatrical representations and socio-political aspects of Rapa Nui culture from pre-colonial times to the present. This is the first book written about the production of Rapa Nui theatre, which is understood as a unique and culturally distinct ...
Shakespeare and Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Ormsby, Valerie Clayman Pye
May 27, 2024
Shakespeare and Tourism provides a dialogical mapping of Shakespeare studies and touristic theory through a collection of essays by scholars on a wide range of material. This volume examines how Shakespeare tourism has evolved since its inception, and how the phenomenon has been influenced and ...