The Applied Theatre Reader

Edited by TIM PRENTKI, Sheila Preston

The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and...

Published August 19th 2008 by Routledge.

The Director's Craft

A Handbook for the Theatre

By Katie Mitchell

The Director’s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.

Written by one of the most adventurous and respected...

Published August 12th 2008 by Routledge.

Young People, New Theatre

A Practical Guide to an Intercultural Process

By Noel Greig

Young People, New Theatre is a ‘how-to’ book; exploring and explaining the process of collaborating creatively with groups of young people across cultural divides.

Organized into...

Published June 26th 2008 by Routledge.

The Transformative Power of Performance

A New Aesthetics

By Erika Fischer-Lichte

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with...

Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge.

Further Steps 2

Fourteen Choreographers on What's the R.A.G.E. in Modern Dance

Edited by Constance Kreemer

Further Steps 2 brings together New York’s foremost choreographers – among them MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winners Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones – to discuss the past, present...

Published June 4th 2008 by Routledge.

Theatre Studies: The Basics

By Robert Leach

This is an essential read for anyone setting out to study the thrilling world of theatre for the first time. Introducing you to all the aspects...

Published May 29th 2008 by Routledge.

By Haiping Yan

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life...

Published May 1st 2008 by Routledge.

Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

Upstaging Dictatorship

By Ana Elena Puga

Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration...

Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge.

Stage Presence

By Jane Goodall

Focusing on examples of live performance in drama, dance, opera and light entertainment, Jane Goodall explores a characteristic as compelling and enigmatic as the performers...

Published April 18th 2008 by Routledge.

King Lear

New Critical Essays

Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when...

Published April 17th 2008 by Routledge.