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  • Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

    by Mark Taylor-Batty, Dr Juliette Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Modern Theatre Guides
    "An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of Contemporary Theatre ReviewSamuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text -it is also one of the most significant western cultural landmarks of the twentieth century. Originally written in French, the play ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Theatre of Harold Pinter

    by Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter's entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain

    Staging Crisis

    by Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater, Vasiliki Angelaki ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally in the post-recession era, delivering theatre that in the process of being truthful to the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Theatre and its Double

    by Antonin Artaud ...
    Translated by Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', this collection of essays analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides suggestions on a physical-training method for ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

    Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Postdramatic Theatre and Form

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic theatre, turning attention to the overlooked issue on which they hinge: form.Contributors draw on ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Beat Drama

    Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Theatres of Contagion

    Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current political and cultural climate by exploring theatre's status as a contagious cultural force, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship

    Provocations for Change

    by Liz Tomlin, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Rancière to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance

    The Initiation of History

    by Maurya Wickstrom, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism and the future, are inaugurated. Wickstrom is guided by three temporal concepts: the new ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Contemporary American Monologue

    Performance and Politics

    by Eddie Paterson, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method ... Read more

    $30.79 USD