Performance and the Ordinary

This series is concerned with the apparently unremarkable; each book explores an aspect of everyday life and the quotidian realities of being a person that are ordinary, commonplace, ‘normal’.

Employing performance as a methodology the books examine the seemingly routine elements of living as a means to question not only their unremarkability but to expose what they in fact reveal about culture, society, power, and personhood. Performance, in this series, will encompass both live events such as theatre but also embrace the performative qualities of other forms such as graphic fiction and cinema. Crucially, performance will also be understood as a mode of reading social life as a means to expose its structures and mechanics. Each volume will be comprised of 4 to 6 thematically oriented chapters and accompanied by a substantial conceptual and methodological introduction and a critically reflective conclusion.

This series is an interdisciplinary collection of works that draws together cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, medical humanities, and politics. These are scholarly monographs but the series has been designed to have a clear identity, with sufficient flexibility to accommodate a range of scholarly approaches and interests.