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

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

  3. Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance

    By Catherine Silverstone

    In this original study, Silverstone explores the relationship between performances of Shakespeare’s plays and the ways in which they engage with various traumatic events and histories. In considering this relationship, she asks how performance might articulate traumatic events and investigates the...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-95645-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

  4. Twentieth Century Performance: An Introduction

    By Peggy Phelan

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

  5. Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

    By Shannon Jackson

    At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and 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 art-making....

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

  6. Polish Ensemble Theatres

    By Grzegorz Ziolkowski

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

  7. 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...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-40398-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

  8. 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,...

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

  9. 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)

  10. Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski

    By Giuliano Campo, Zygmunt Molik

    One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a...

    May 2010 | 978-0-415-56847-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

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