Theatre & Performance Studies

This new edition of Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction continues to provide an unparalleled overview of non-text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime. It synthesizes the history, theory and practice of physical theatres for students and performers in what is both a core..

This Reader features extracts from primary texts by key practitioners of physical theatre – a term covering various forms of non-text-based theatre, ranging from experimental and visually-orientated performance to mime and masked theatre...

This Reader features extracts from primary texts by key practitioners of physical theatre – a term covering various forms of non-text-based theatre, ranging from experimental and visually-orientated performance to mime and masked theatre...

Now revised and updated, this volume draws on unprecedented access to Pina Bausch's work to provide a beautfiully written and illustrated guide to her dance theatre. This is an essential introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant choreographers/directors of the twentieth and tw..

Now revised and updated, this volume draws on unprecedented access to Pina Bausch's work to provide a beautfiully written and illustrated guide to her dance theatre. This is an essential introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant choreographers/directors of the twentieth and tw..

Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life...

This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences are often constructed and controlled by the interests of institutions, including corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, religious organizations, and non-government..

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660...

Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean play texts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays. By clarifying a sixteenth- to sevente..

Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean play texts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays. By clarifying a sixteenth- to sevente..

This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars on..

This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars on..