Theatre & Performance Studies

A result of many years of research and practice, this book is an inspiring manual for arts practitioners concerned with the relationship between business, the arts and wider society, and particularly those engaged in fundraising...

Drawing on published collections and manuscripts from Mantuan archives, this study locates commedia dell' arte as a performance form reflective of its cultural crucible in the Mediterranean. It provides a broad perspective on commedia dell’ arte as an expression of cultural, gender and language comm..

This is a unique record of the similarities and differences which exist within the vital artform of Community Theatre throughout the world...

Conference of the Birds is John Heilpern's true story of an extraordinary journey. In December 1972, the director Peter Brook and an international troupe of actors (Helen Mirren and Yoshi Oida among them) left their Paris base to emerge again in the Sahara desert. It was the start of an 8,500-mile e..

This second edition of Contemporary Choreography has been completely revised to present an fully up-to-date range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and traditional understandings of dance making. The book features contributions from a global range o..

A major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides an analysis of the development of feminist theatre in different cultures and on several continents...

A ground-breaking collection of essays that bring dance into the cultural studies mainstream, exploring the many ways we use our bodies as substantial, vital constituents of cultural reality...

A ground-breaking collection of essays that bring dance into the cultural studies mainstream, exploring the many ways we use our bodies as substantial, vital constituents of cultural reality...

The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance...

The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance...

Risk is a key issue for every project manager. How the various risks are handled can often define the final outcome of a project; it can determine its overall worth to both sponsors and contractors and its ultimate success or failure. Alan Webb's The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk is a c..

Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge redirects the intercultural debate by privileging the actor’s creative process. Original interviews illuminate how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination manifests in actor training and intercultural perf..