Theatre and Performance Studies 2012

New Titles and Key Backlist 2012

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Theatre and Performance Journals

Welcome to the 2012 Routledge Theatre and Performance Studies catalogue...

Our new offerings range from the historical and theoretical to the practical and pedagogical. This year we launch Stephen Di Benedetto’s inspiring introductory textbook on theatre design, as well as Judith Malina’s unique Piscator Notebook. We’re very proud to announce Peggy Phelan’s West Coast collection Live Art in LA, as well as the remarkable Andrei Droznin’s Physical Actor Training DVD package. And much more besides... But the single most innovative project which is coming to fruition this year is The Routledge Performance Archive, which we’re producing in partnership with Digital Theatre and is set to transform resources for the theatre studies classroom.

This online catalogue also provides a comprehensive listing of our backlist titles in theatre, performance and related areas, full tables of contents, and additional information.

Our innovative program of cutting-edge research books deserved a livery to match, so we are delighted to unveil our new Routledge Research cover design. Routledge Research is our home for upper‐level scholarly studies and edited collections.

Our cover image is from Le Cosa 1 by Teatro Sotterraneo. Photograph © Paulo Rapalino. Teatro Sotterraneo have kindly agreed to let us use this as our central publicity image for the Routledge Performance Archive.

Finally, we welcome feedback on our publishing programme – please feel free to get in touch through our contact details below.

  1. Live Art in LA

    Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983

    Edited by Peggy Phelan

    Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time initiative – a series of exhibitions, performance re-enactments and...

    Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Andrei Droznin's Physical Actor Training

    A Russian Masterclass

    By Andrei Droznin

    Edited by Paul Allain

    ‘Droznin is remarkable and valuable for his ability to combine serious and historically contextualised reflection on the body, psychology and human behaviour with an incorporated and systematic exploration of these ideas in practice.' Paul Allain Andrei Droznin’s Physical Actor Training presents a...

    Published December 22nd 2011 by Routledge

  3. An Introduction to Theatre Design

    By Stephen Di Benedetto

    This introduction to theatre design explains the theories, strategies, and tools of practical design work for the undergraduate student. Through its numerous illustrated case studies and analysis of key terms, students will build an understanding of the design process and be able to:...

    Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge

  4. The Piscator Notebook

    By Judith Malina

    'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years.' – CHOICE Judith Malina and The Living Theatre have been icons of political theatre for over six decades. What few realise is that she originally...

    Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11

    Patriotic Dissent

    Edited by Jenny Spencer

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama’s election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own governments’ actions and policies during this time. The plays take up topics such as the ongoing wars...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

  6. Russians in Britain

    British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training

    Edited by Jonathan Pitches

    From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl’s Russian ‘sister company’ almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influence on modern British theatre. Russians in Britain, edited by Jonathan Pitches, is the first work of its type to identify a relationship between both...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge

  7. In Rehearsal

    In the World, in the Room, and On Your Own

    By Gary Sloan

    In Rehearsal is a clear and accessible how-to approach to the rehearsal process. Author Gary Sloan brings more than thirty years' worth of acting experience to bear on the question of how to rehearse both as an individual actor and as part of the team of professionals that underpins any...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge