World Theatre Books

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1. Indian Popular Theatres

   By Sudipto Chatterjee

   Indian Popular Theatres foregrounds an aspect of contemporary performance that has for some time warranted but not received serious study. It explores the living traditions of Indian Theatre in terms of its audience and the specific circumstances that surround them, focusing on four key forms:...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-35605-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Shamans in Contemporary Korean Theatre

   By Ah-Jeong Kim

   Shamans in Contemporary Korean Theatre draws an absorbing parallel between Korea’s most innovative theatre practitioners and the ancient Kut – or shamanic rituals – that are preserved to this day by professional exponents. Framing these two forms as vital chapters in Korea’s performative culture,...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-40435-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Theatre and the State in Singapore

   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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   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58629-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

   By Sanjoy Ganguly

   Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-57752-6 | 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)

7. Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

   By Haiping Yan

   Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist...

   2008 | 978-0-415-47458-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater: Upstaging Dictatorship

   By Ana Elena Puga

   Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative...

   2008 | 978-0-415-96119-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Indian Folk Theatres

   By Julia Hollander

   Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent: Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from...

   2007 | 978-0-415-30455-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    Performance in Bali

    By Leon Rubin, I. Nyoman Sedana

    Leon Rubin and I Nyoman Sedana, both international theatre professionals as well as scholars, collaborate to give an understanding of performance culture in Bali from inside and out. The book describes four specific forms of contemporary performance that are unique to Bali: Wayang ...

    2007 | 978-0-415-33131-9 | Hardback (Routledge)