Theatre & Performance Studies

Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, this collection combines readings of the best-selling novel with reflections on how it has permeated the popular imagination through a selection of its multimedia adaptations including musical theater and film from the silent period ..

In Live Art in LA, Peggy Phelan explores the histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 1970s and early 80s. This book documents and critically examines one of the most productive periods in the history of live art, representing a major re-evaluation of the history of pe..

This book shows how 'local', 'non-metropolitan' knowledges and experiences might extend our understanding of various aspects of Shakespeare's plays, using as a particular example the presentation of masculinity in the late plays...

Locating the Queen's Men presents new and groundbreaking essays on the theatrical and economic contexts of this prominent acting company. Offering a detailed critical engagement that includes a repertory study and investigations into distinctive style, this collection revises standard accounts of El..

This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space – somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand...

This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics - a poetics of play and games - an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Beginning with the Surrealists' 'one-into-another' game and its illustr..

How is madness made, experienced, and treated? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? _x005F_x000D_ Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking..

Considering a variety of questions centering on magic and, or in, performance, this volume furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. Collectively the essays show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects..

This book is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Making an Entrance is the first ever practical introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non disabled students. This clearly written, thought provoking and hugely enjoyable manual is essential reading whether you're just starting out or are already active in the field...