'This work goes where other books fear to tread.　 It reaches the parts other scholars might imagine in their dreams but would neither have the international reach nor the critical acumen and　forensic　flourish to deliver.' Alan Read, King's College London

'This book is not only timely.　 It is overdue - and it is a masterpiece unrivalled by any book I know of.'　 Erika Fischer-Lichte, Freie　Universitat Berlin

'The first and only book that focuses on the intersections of performance, terror and terrorism as played out beyond a...