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My Life in Art
Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach…
read moreFebruary 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43657-1 (Routledge)
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture
From Simulation to Embeddedness
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36840-7 (Routledge)
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The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain
A Bibliography of Criticism and Documentation
Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40048-0 (Routledge)
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Contemporary Theatres in Europe
A Critical Companion
Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32940-8 (Routledge)

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
What is theatre? What is performance? What are their connections and differences? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25721-3 (Routledge)
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Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting
Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32907-1 (Routledge)
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Michael Chekhov
All books in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series are carefully designed to enable the reader to understand the work of a key practitioner. They provide…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25878-4 (Routledge)

Vsevolod Meyerhold
All books in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series are carefully designed to enable the reader to understand the work of a key practitioner. They provide…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25884-5 (Routledge)

Popular Theatre
A Sourcebook
Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25830-2 (Routledge)

The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader
The Twentieth Century Performance Reader is the key introductory text to all types of performance. Extracts from fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25287-4 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Polish Ensemble Theatres
By Grzegorz Ziolkowski
To be published January 30th 2009
Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
By Sara Jane Bailes
To be published June 1st 2009
Theatre & Performance in Latin America
By Jill Lane
To be published June 28th 2009
Contemporary European Directors
Edited by Dan Rebellato, Maria M. Delgado
To be published July 31st 2009
The Theatre of the Bauhaus: The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer
By Melissa Trimingham
To be published October 1st 2009
