World Theatre 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. Indian Folk Theatres

   By Julia Hollander

   Series: Theatres of the World

   Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent: Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

   Upstaging Dictatorship

   By Ana Elena Puga

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   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 in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. The Politics of American Actor Training

   Edited by Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Theatre and the State in Singapore

   Orthodoxy and Resistance

   By Terence Chong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’...

   Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge
6. Notes From An Odin Actress

   Stones of Water

   By Julia Varley

   ‘As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the concreteness of the performance and, at the same time, I need to be alive in the minds and senses of the...

   Published July 22nd 2010 by Routledge
7. Jana Sanskriti

   Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

   By Sanjoy Ganguly

   Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique...

   Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. Theatre Histories

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

   This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge
9. Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

   By Haiping Yan

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society

   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 journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist...

   Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge
10. Performance in Bali

    By Leon Rubin, I. Nyoman Sedana

    Series: Theatres of the World

    Leon Rubin and I Nyoman Sedana, both international theatre professionals as well as scholars, collaborate to give an understanding of performance culture in Bali from inside and out. The book describes four specific forms of contemporary performance that are unique to Bali: Wayang ...

    Published August 2nd 2007 by Routledge