Performance Theory

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies...

This book discusses the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. The essays pose questions about identity and the subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, visiting visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and pe..

Since its first publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A critical introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. This new edition addresses performing race and ethnicity; performance concerned with age and disability; and participato..

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism...

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism...

Performing Chekhov is a unique guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. It will be indispensable to students, teachers and theatre practitioners interested not only in Chekhov but in the history of the modern stage...

An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminacy and material culture, Performing Consumers brilliantly explores the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of their consumers, using case studies from Ralph Lauren to Niketown...

An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminacy and material culture, Performing Consumers brilliantly explores the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of their consumers, using case studies from Ralph Lauren to Niketown...

Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an indispensable practical tool for enhancing comi..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Performing Remains is a collection of essays from one of Performance Studies' leading scholars, exploring the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary theatre. Divided into seven essays, this book examines both contemporary and historical performance with a wide scope, questioning th..

The first full length study to address the ways performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism...