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.
Crisis and Communitas: Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera
October 04, 2024
This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes. This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully ...
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way
October 04, 2024
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so,...
Who Is In the Room?: Queer Strategies for Redefining the Role of the Theater Director
1st Edition
By Brooke O'Harra
September 25, 2024
With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward. O’Harra investigates a series of important questions: How do we wrest our work from institutional imperatives of public ...
Applied Theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals: Crises, Collaboration, and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Taiwo Afolabi, Abdul Karim Hakib, Bobby Smith
September 23, 2024
This book is the first definitive publication to consider the intersections of applied theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a series of goals which have shaped development and social justice initiatives from 2015 to 2030. It brings together emerging and leading scholars and ...
Performing the Nonhuman: Towards a Theatre of Transformation
1st Edition
By Conrad Alexandrowicz
September 02, 2024
This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis. This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its ...
Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage: An Exploration of Metatheatrical Techniques
1st Edition
By Rebecca Clode
August 26, 2024
This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing ...
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 ...