Theatre History Books

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1. The Routledge Companion to Brecht's Theatre

   By Manfred Wekwerth

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56969-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Jerzy Grotowski and the Secret Police

   By Seth Baumrin

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

3. Polish Ensemble Theatres

   By Grzegorz Ziolkowski

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

4. The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance

   By Terence Chong

   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’...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-58448-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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)
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   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-47214-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Ecology and Environment in European Drama

   By Downing Cless

   Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force....

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-80439-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization

   By Katerina Rüedi Ray

   A highly original and innovative study that brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus - tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. Developed in post WW1 Germany, the principles of Bauhaus architecture and...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-47582-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

   Edited by Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart

   This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work,...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-58339-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    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...

    January 2010 | 978-0-415-46224-2 | Paperback (Routledge)