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.
In Search of the Performer’s Way: Jerzy Grotowski in Dialogue with Daoism
1st Edition
By Jong Hyuk Song
November 13, 2025
This original study re-examines Grotowski’s work through a fresh perspective rooted in the ancient Eastern philosophy of Daoism. Moving beyond the limitations of existing scholarship, the author reveals how Daoist principles shed new light on Grotowski’s innovations. By contextualising Daoism ...
Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia: Dance and Ritual in Contemporary Spain
1st Edition
By Miriana M. Lausic Arratia
November 07, 2025
This book analyzes gesture, ritual, and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia the extended definition of bullfighting within the visual arts and poetry in contemporary Spain. Based on the author’s extensive ethnographic field research, it emerges from recent critical thinking on the body in ...
Western Drama Confronts Selfish Humanity: Dramatic Altruisms
1st Edition
By William W. Demastes
October 25, 2025
This book offers a timely exploration of how Western theatre has consistently challenged the notion that human nature is fundamentally selfish. Through millennia of dramatic works, the theatre has served as a vital platform for examining the complex interplay between selfish and selfless behavior, ...
Messy Connections: Creating Atmospheres of Addiction Recovery Through Performance Practice
1st Edition
By Cathy Sloan
September 29, 2025
This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged. Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance ...
Passion and Elegance: How Flamenco and Classical Ballet Met at the Ballets Russes
1st Edition
By Barbara File Marangon
September 29, 2025
This book commences with the history of Indian, Egyptian, Arab, and flamenco dance, then compares and contrasts the history of both classical ballet and flamenco. The book outlines the early roots of flamenco in India, and the journey of the Romani through the Middle East and Europe up to their ...
The Legacy of Stylistic Theatre in the Creation of a Modern Sinhala Drama in Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
September 29, 2025
This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era. Bulathsinghala examines the impact of indigenous and imported folk theatrical forms on the work of the most significant postcolonial stylistic dramatists and on key plays ...
The Shakespeare North Playhouse: Replica Theatres and Their Uses
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Keenan
September 29, 2025
This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and development by four people pivotal to its progress at different stages of the project, this book explores different aspects of the SNP’s purpose and functions across three broad ...
Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe: The Other White Woman
1st Edition
By Cristina Modreanu
September 25, 2025
Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe explores a distinctive form of womanhood that emerged in post-World War II Eastern Europe, offering an alternative to Western typologies. This work interweaves theatre history with personal narratives while addressing contemporary issues that continue to ...
Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School
1st Edition
Edited
By Dermot Daly
September 22, 2025
Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training. Written by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries, this book offers practical and theoretical tools to take into ...
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: ...
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,...