Performance Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. African Theatres and Performances

   By Osita Okagbue

   Series: Theatres of the World

   African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in Eastern Nigeria the trance and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Archaeologies of Presence

   Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks

   Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Carnival Art, Culture and Politics

   Performing Life

   Edited by Michaeline Crichlow

   Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. An Actress Prepares

   Women and "the Method"

   By Rosemary Malague

   'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.' – Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter 'Theatre people of any gender will be...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Mobile Interface Theory

   Embodied Space and Locative Media

   By Jason Farman

   Mobile media – from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks – are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more using our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Adolphe Appia

   Texts on Theatre

   By Richard C. Beacham

   Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. In Adolphe Appia: Texts on Theatre, Richard Beacham brings together for the first time selections from all his major writings. The publication of these essays,...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Politics and Poetics of Camp

   Edited by Morris Meyer

   The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Handbook on Sexual Violence

   Edited by Jennifer Brown, Sandra Walklate

   This book contextualizes the complexity of sexual violence within its broader context – from war to the resolution of interpersonal disputes – and covers a wide span including sexual harassment, bullying, rape and murder as well as domestic violence. Written by leading academics from a variety...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre

   By Stephen Di Benedetto

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
10. Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

    By Matthew Wagner

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on...

    Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge