Theatre & Performance Studies News & Updates

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1. 

   Enter The Prop Building Guidebook Contest

   Theatre and movie frequently require replicas of three-dimensional objects built for actors to use.

   We are hosting a contest to celebrate the skill of prop builders everywhere and the release of Eric Hart's new book, The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV!
   
   Enter the contest to win a prize worth $500!

2. 

   Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD)

   22-23 March | University of Wolverhampton, UK

   SCUDD represents the interests of Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts in the Higher Education sector in the UK. All delegates attending the SCUDD Conference will receive a 20% discount off key Routledge titles by using discount code SCUDD13.

3. 

   Routledge Performance Archive - Focus on Droznin

   We've extended our focus on Andrei Droznin for two more weeks!

   We will be regularly celebrating 'Featured Artists' on the RPA news page with snippets of RPA content available for you to view free online for a limited time.

4. Preserving Dance Across Time and Space - Now Available

   Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past.

5. Theatre Translation in Performance - Now Available

   The current debate has shown a growing tendency to downplay and challenge the notion of translational accuracy in favor of a recreational and post-dramatic attitude, underlying the role of the director and playwright instead. This book discusses the delicate balance between translating and directing from an intercultural, semiotic, aesthetic, and interlingual perspective, taking a critical stance on approaches that belittle translation for the theater or equate it to an editorial practice focused on literality.

6. 

   Programming Theater History - Now Available

   Herbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952, starting with ten people in a loft above a judo academy. Over the course of the next 13 years and its hundred or so productions, it introduced American audiences to plays by Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Arden, Fornes, and various unknown others.

   ‘One of the great stories of the American theater…, the Workshop not only built an international reputation with its daring choice of plays and nontraditional productions, it also helped launch a movement of regional, or resident, companies that would change forever how Americans thought about and consumed theater.’ – Elin Diamond, from the Introduction

7. 

   Acting Power: The 21st Century Edition

   ‘Robert Cohen’s book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last fourth century.’
   – David Krasner, Emerson College

   The first edition of Acting Power was a groundbreaking work of acting theory which applied sociological and psychological principles to actor training. The book went on to influence a generation of theater and performance studies students and academics, and was translated into five languages.

8. 

   The Casting Handbook

   Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are oftentimes overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers everything producers and directors needs to know – as well as proving a fascinating and illuminating read for actors.

9. 

   Performance Studies: An Introduction, 3rd Edition

   The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theater, performing arts, and cultural studies.

   'This ever improved 3rd edition of Performance Studies: An Introduction will facilitate Schechner’s masterful ability to bring newcomers into and through this complex, richly interdisciplinary material. With new media links, videos, and up-to-the-minute additions, the book continues to be a terrific resource for those of us leading our students to the deep well that constitutes the field.' - Jill Dolan, Princeton University, USA

10. 

    Free Access to Routledge Journals

    Explore the Routledge portfolio of Theatre and Performance Journals with 14 days’ free online access* to all articles published in 2011 and 2012 volumes. Simply sign in or register at: www.tandfonline.com/TandP

    *Online access for 14 days from activation, to all content published in 2011 and 2011 Volumes from selected journals. Voucher can only be activated once and is valid until 31/12/2013