Performance Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Critical Live Art

   Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

   Edited by Dominic Johnson

   Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject

   Edited by Fintan Walsh, Matthew Causey

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. Theatre Translation in Performance

   Edited by Silvia Bigliazzi, Paola Ambrosi, Peter Kofler

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator, the director, and the actors. Exploring the role and function of the translator as...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Performance Studies

   An Introduction, 3rd Edition

   By Richard Schechner

   The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies,...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Protest and US Foreign Policy

   Performative construction of the War on Terror

   By Cami Rowe

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates. The moment of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been much cited in political and cultural scholarship and much attention has been paid to the promotion of "War on...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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