This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Edited
By Michela Bariselli, Davide Crosara, Antonio Gambacorta, Mario Martino
December 04, 2024
In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett’s work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century. Located at the intersection of historical avant-garde movements and a renewed interest in tradition...
By Bill Gelber
November 20, 2024
Based on the author’s decades of teaching, pedagogical and theatrical research, and his professional experience as actor and director, Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors offers a pedagogical approach rehearsal scenes as a primary tool for diagnosis and actor improvement. This ...
Edited
By Hanna B Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin
November 20, 2024
Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this volume brings together diverse voices, methods and formats in the discussion and practice of performance conservation. Conservators, artists, curators, and scholars explore the ontology of ...
By Harriet Curtis
November 19, 2024
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer, feminist, and intersectional critical ...
By Esa Kirkkopelto
November 18, 2024
What do the performing arts contribute to philosophical, ethical and political thinking today? This book is a study of the performing arts, the body and language. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and performance philosophy, Esa Kirkkopelto proposes a new understanding of embodiment that...
Edited
By David Roesner, Tamara Yasmin Quick
November 18, 2024
The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the artform was first established 2,500 years ago: not just in subsequent genres that are explicitly driven by ...
By Emily LeQuesne
November 13, 2024
What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it? 1000 Ways to Ask Why, is a practical how to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers. This book introduces The Mosaic Scale ...
By Adele Senior
October 23, 2024
On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists. Meanwhile, across the contemporary performance landscape, children are participating as performers and collaborators in ways that resonate with this figure of the ...
By Matthew Farmer
October 22, 2024
Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author’s theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique. By taking a similar approach to teaching ballet, modern, jazz, tap, or hip hop, this book supplies its reader with an ...
By Iris Julia Bührle
October 01, 2024
This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare’s works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: “How can Shakespeare be danced?”, and “How can dance shed new light on Shakespeare?” ...
Edited
By Claudia Orenstein, Tim Cusack
October 01, 2024
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, ...
By Vanessa Dodd
September 30, 2024
Is the mind like a theatrical performance? This comparison has often been used as a conceptual tool by neuroscientists, philosophers, and psychologists in trying to understand what constitutes the human mind, and in particular how the comings and goings and the character transformations on the ...