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Browse Theatre & Performance Studies books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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Recently Published Books

1. Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

   By Sara Jane Bailes

   What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to fail? In Performance Theatre and the Poetics...

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook

   From Modernism to Contemporary Performance

   Edited by Maggie B. Gale, John F. Deeney

   The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook is a groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre, from the late Nineteenth Century to contemporary performance practice. Each of the book’s five sections comprises a selection of plays and performance texts that...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
3. Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon

   The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation

   By Christopher Stone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century. In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
4. Acting: The First Six Lessons

   Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre, 2nd Edition

   By Richard Boleslavsky

   Edited by Rhonda Blair

   Series: Routledge Theatre Classics

   Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of Stanislavsky’s System in America. This new...

   Published August 15th 2010 by Routledge
5. Anton Chekhov

   By Rose Whyman

   Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

   Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov's writing, theatrical representation and dramatic philosophy. Emphasising Chekhov’s continued relevance and his mastery of the tragicomic, Rose Whyman provides an...

   Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
6. Engaging Performance

   Theatre as call and response

   By Jan Cohen-Cruz

   Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine ‘socially engaged performance’. It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author Jan...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
7. 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 27th 2010 by Routledge
8. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art

   Performing Migration

   Edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Rocío G. Davis, Johanna C. Kardux

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this...

   Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work

   Foreign Bodies of Knowledge

   By Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
10. Directing

    By Di Trevis

    Published July 14th 2010 by Routledge