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  • Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34

    by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin, Megan E. Geigner, Heidi L. Nees, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Jonathan Chambers, Miriam Chirico, Jerry Dickey0, Julia Fawcett1, Iris Fischer2, Brett D. Johnson3, Emeline Jouve4, Valerie Joyce5, Keith Byron Kirk6, Jenna L. Kubly7, Martha S. LoMonaco8, Scott Magelssen9, Theresa J. May0, Lance Mekeel1, Beliza Torres Narváez2, Tavia Nyong'o3, Alexis Riley4, Kristen Rogers5, Cindy Rosenthal6, Judith Sebesta7, Harvey Young8, Meredith Conti9, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.0, Teresa Stankiewicz Jr.1 ...
    Series Book 34 - Theatre History Studies
    Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion of the Abydos Passion Play. Sikes challenges the long-held interpretation of that ritualized ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language

    Politics, Translations, Embodiments

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain ...
    Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result.Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures

    Beyond Postcolonialism

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

    by Erika Fischer-Lichte ...
    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
    In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    by Marlon M. Bailey ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Popular Theatre in Political Culture

    Britain and Canada in focus

    by Tim Prentki, Jan Selman ...
    The first comparative study on the history and practice of popular theatre in Britain and overseas. The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This study traces the development of various types of community theatre, from the '70s to the present day. Integrating a comparative history of popular theatre ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Winnie the Witch

    by Anthony Clark, Paul Korky, Valerie Thomas ...
    Series series Oberon Plays for Young People
    Winnie the Witch uses her magic to solve some very practical problems. But the results are never quite as she imagined...One day after turning everything in her house black to hide the mess, she discovers she can no longer see her black cat Wilbur. So she decides to use a bit of magic, and that's when the trouble really starts...This wonderful new play for children brings together all three books ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Alistair McDowall's Pomona

    by David Ian Rabey ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and ominously enveloping. The play has as its imaginative springboard a landscape which is both real and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Write A Play And Get It Performed: Teach Yourself

    by Lesley Bown, Ann Gawthorpe, Lesley Hudswell ...
    Write a Play - and Get It Performed is designed for would-be writers of every level and for all types of motivation by two prize-winning professionals. Whether writing for the specific needs of an amateur drama group, community event, political campaign or simply for personal or professional development, this is a guide to the craft of playwriting. It offers guidance on the creative principles of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama

    The Bard on the Stage

    by Arnab Bhattacharya, Mala Renganathan ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature, visiting translations and adaptations of Tagore’s drama, and cross-cultural encounters in his works. As Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, Tagore’s highly original plays occupy a central position in the Indian theatrescape. Tagore experimented with dance, music, dance drama, and plays, exploring concepts of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall

    The Autobiography of Peter Hall

    by Peter Hall ...
    The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, artistic director of Glyndebourne, and director of Britain's National Theatre from 1973 to 1988. He has directed over 150 productions of plays, operas and films, and now runs his own acclaimed theatre ... Read more

    $29.99 USD