European Performance

Contemporary European Theatre Directors discusses key European directors from the last fifty years. The directors supply contributions and interviews creating a coherent guide to a period of theatre forged in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 90s...

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. As traditional rituals of State and Church faltered, a new generation of cultural operators, large..

This is the first comprehensive analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances...

This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this histori..

The Odin Teatret Archives presents collections from the archives of the groundbreaking Odin Teatret theatre company. In this unique volume, Mirella Schino brings together a never before seen collection of source materials, revealing the social, political, and artistic questions facing those who try ..