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Beyond the Apsara

Celebrating Dance in Cambodia

Edited by Stephanie Burridge, Fred Frumberg

This book celebrates and documents the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the infamous Pol Pot regime. It…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56445-8 (Routledge India)

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An Actor's Work on a Role

By Konstantin Stanislavski

An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavsky’s classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system…

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October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46129-0 (Routledge)

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The Politics of New Media Theatre

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By Gabriella Giannachi

The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54409-2 (Routledge)

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Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

From Simulation to Embeddedness

By Matthew Causey

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…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54410-8 (Routledge)

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Ritual and Event

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Mark Franko

Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. The essays collected here reassess and revise traditionally understood relationships between ritual…

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October 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54411-5 (Routledge)

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What is Scenography?

2nd Edition

By Pamela Howard

Pamela Howard's What is Scenography? has become a classic text in contemporary theatre design and performance practice. In this second edition, the author expands on…

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July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47320-0 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Choreography

A Critical Reader

Edited by Jo Butterworth, Liesbeth Wildschut

This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and traditional understandings of dance making.

Contemporary Choreography features contributions…

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May 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49087-0 (Routledge)

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Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644

By Grant Guangren Shen

Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre…

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April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54589-1 (Routledge)

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Body Voice Imagination

ImageWork Training and the Chekhov Technique, 2nd Edition

By David Zinder

David Zinder’s Body Voice Imagination is written by one of the master teachers of the Michael Chekhov technique of acting training. This book is a…

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April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46198-6 (Routledge)

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Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company

Creativity and the Institution

By Colin Chambers

2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46065-1 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Theatre Histories: An Introduction
By Gary Jay Williams, Bruce A. McConachie, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Phillip Zarrilli
To be published January 4th 2010

The Lee Strasberg Notes
Edited by Lola Cohen
To be published January 19th 2010

Drama as Therapy Volume 2: Clinical Work and Research into Practice
Edited by Phil Jones
To be published March 1st 2010

The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives
Edited by Giorgio Riello, Peter McNeil
To be published April 27th 2010

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative
By James Loxley, Mark Robson
To be published May 1st 2010

Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide
By Association of British TheatreEdited by Judith Strong
To be published May 28th 2010

William Forsythe
By Steven Spier
To be published June 15th 2010

Performance Studies: The Key Concepts
Edited by Gabrielle Cody
To be published August 31st 2010