History of Performance Books

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1. The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-48301-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Jerzy Grotowski and the Secret Police

   By Seth Baumrin

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57524-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Twentieth Century Performance: An Introduction

   By Peggy Phelan

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-33460-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Social Works: Performing Arts, Supporting Publics

   By Shannon Jackson

   At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, at a time when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-48601-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Polish Ensemble Theatres

   By Grzegorz Ziolkowski

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-33129-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Theatre of the Bauhaus: The Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer

   By Melissa Trimingham

   Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "Master Magician" and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this "theatre of high modernism" and its historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-40398-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Global Ibsen: Performing Multiple Modernities

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler

   Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-87713-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-58565-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski

   By Giuliano Campo, Zygmunt Molik

   Zygmunt Molik is one of the last living members of Jerzy Grotowski’s original acting company and was a leading trainer at the Teatr Laboratorium. Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book,...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-56847-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Contemporary European Theatre Directors

    Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Dan Rebellato

    'An invaluable book that we shall all be using for a long time to come' - Michael Billington Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast...

    March 2010 | 978-0-415-46251-8 | Paperback (Routledge)