3rd Edition

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

By Paul Allain, Jen Harvie Copyright 2025
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. This third edition has been updated to now include over 160... Read more

Introduction

Part I People and Companies

Part II Events

Part III Concepts and Practices

Biography

Paul Allain, Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, has published extensively on actor training and contemporary Polish theatre, especially Jerzy Grotowski.

Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, has published widely on relationships between contemporary theatre and performance and cultural identities and on how theatre and performance artists make their work. She is the co-founder of the Theatre & series and was its co-editor for 17 years.