Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late t...
This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality.
This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the an...
Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.
Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designe...
Written by both practitioners and scholars, this significant and timely collection explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of place. The volume examines how we experience performance's varied sites as part of the fabric of the art work itself, whether they are institutional or transient, real or online.
Written by both practitioners and scholars, this significant and timely collection explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of p...
This is a timely contribution to the debates regarding future possibilities for feminism, theater, and performance. An excellent, cross-generational mix of theater scholars (Sue-Ellen Case, Dee Heddon, Meenakshi Ponnuswami, Janelle Reinelt, Joanne Tompkins) and practitioners (Anna Furse, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, SuAndi) engage in lively, cutting-edge critical debates on topics that include citizenship, autobiography, cultural heritage and politcal agency as circulating in contemporary feminism and performance.
This is a timely contribution to the debates regarding future possibilities for feminism, theater, and performance. An excellent, cross-generational m...
Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using contemporary performance theory to explore key themes, it offers close textual readings and production analysis of a range of plays, performance poetry and live art works by practitioners.
Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using...
Political theatre has re-emerged strongly since 1995, to articulate changed issues, alignments and definitions of politics and power in Britain. New work by both young and established dramatists contests the post-Thatcher mood of disengagement, creating exciting debates about the power and responsibility of individuals, defining characteristics and issues of the nation, the interaction of cultural collectives with the nation as a whole, and Britain's relationship with other nations in the world.
Political theatre has re-emerged strongly since 1995, to articulate changed issues, alignments and definitions of politics and power in Britain. New w...
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-politica...
Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.
Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'....
In her compelling cross-disciplinary series of case studies, Kostihova bucks the popular and scholarly consensus that declared postcommunist Shakespeare to be apolitical. Shakespeare in Transition investigates the political dimensions of Czech Shakespeare appropriation and production in the wake of the fall of Communism in 1989. Whether in focusing on recent arguments about Shakespeare translation (zooming in on an explosive public debate where inaccurate Shakespeare translation was equated with 'treason against Czech national culture') or comparative consideration of clusters of...
In her compelling cross-disciplinary series of case studies, Kostihova bucks the popular and scholarly consensus that declared postcommunist Shakespea...
