Performance Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Stanislavski: The Basics

   By Rose Whyman

   Series: The Basics

   Stanislavski: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the life, thought and impact of Konstantin Stanislavski. Regarded by many as a great innovator of twentieth century theatre, this book examines Stanislavski’s: life and the context of his writings major works in English translation...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Liveness in Modern Music

   Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance

   By Paul Sanden

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Unwritten Grotowski

   Theory and Practice of the Encounter

   By Kris Salata

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski’s work as...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Performance and the Politics of Space

   Theatre and Topology

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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 March 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. An Actress Prepares

   Women and "the Method"

   By Rosemary Malague

   'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress:...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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 10th 2011 by Routledge