Theatre and Dance

Offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actor's sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch.

Systematic and original explorations in performance technique.

Investigates the way Africa has been portrayed on the London stage from the 1950s to the present.

Theorizes the baroque as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess.

Draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy.

Explores the role of one of Glasgow's most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the 19^th century.

Provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history.

Highlights the complexities of the battle for child labor laws, the arguments for the needs of the theater industry, and the weight of opposition that confronted any attempt to control employers.

Explores Reid's work through her own words, both in interviews and writings; through theoretical engagements in other disciplines, such as psychology and geography; and through responses to her plays in production.

Examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing arts.

Comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925.

Explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhānd, which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

Asks important questions about making performance through the means of collaboration and co-created practice.

Examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theater through seventeen international case studies.

Examines the extraordinary prevalence and appeal of the Gothic in contemporary British theater and performance.

Traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood.

Focuses on what it takes to be a creative performer.

Explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum.

Analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Examines the performance of 'Britishness' on the musical stage.

Applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.

Focuses on how and to what extent the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience contributed, during the 16^th to 18^th centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call 'public sphere(s).'

Examines the influence of the early modern period on Antonin Artaud's seminal work The Theatre and Its Double.

Examines the trope of echo in early modern literature and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print.

The first major study of amateur theater--offers new perspectives on its place in the cultural and social life of communities.

About collaboration in the arts, how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts.

A close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life.

Explores the issues, public and private, that influenced Albee's vision over five decades, from his first great success, The Zoo Story (1959), to his last play, Me, Myself, & I (2008).

Explores the question of whether empathy is crucial to understanding others or a misguided assumption of access to the minds of others.

Offers a provocative and groundbreaking re-appraisal of the demands of acting ancient tragedy, informed by cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of actor training, theater history, and classical reception.

Explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theater in the period 1880-1960.

Makes a case for the importance of theatre in the diverse culture of the Guyanese people.

Argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast.

The first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre.

Explores relationships between intermedial theater, consciousness, memory, objects, subjectivity, and affect.

Discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day.

About the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship.

The first comprehensive critical assessment of the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Augusta Gregory, founder, patron, director, and dramatist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, this book charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter's later career.

Examines the long life of the Oz myth.

An anthology of Mark Edward's creative practice-led projects. It transmits and communicates his research through varied artistic means, primarily contemporary dance, immersive art installation, drag performance, and photography.

Exploring the experiences of early to mid-20^th century British theater-makers in Russia, this book imagines how these travelers interpreted Russian realism, symbolism, constructivism, agitprop, pageantry, dance or cinema.

Everyone has heard of Method acting, but what about Modern acting? This book makes the simple but radical proposal that we acknowledge the Modern acting principles that continue to guide actors' work in the 21^st century.

Reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theater educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching strategies.

Explores how New York has shaped the genre of the musical and how the genre has in turn shaped representations of the city.

Focuses on the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama.

Provides an all-embracing approach that encompasses drama and musical, opera, dance, radio, and non-dramatic performances including circuses and parades.

Offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterized as contemporary Irish theater and performance.

Provides a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theater. Featuring fifty-one essays written by international specialists in the field, it offers new insights into the world of musical theater, its creation and its promotion.

Revisits the territory of the performance orientation, touching on anthropology, dance, folklore, music and theater to look for present trends in both the ethnography of performance and performance ethnography.

Explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces.

Focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated. Weaving together climate science and artistic expression, it results in a funny and powerful story spanning 300 million years.

Examines age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon. All ages are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions and senior-theater groups.

Examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization.

Offers an exploration of the intersection of Korean theater practice with Western literary theater. Covers Gangnam Style, K-Pop, and the Korean Wave.

Highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed.

Gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theater from both Irish theater practitioners and international academics.

Focuses on the political character of 'cyberformance': the genre of digital performance that uses the Internet as a performance space.

Explores how theater shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world.

Explores the relevance of literature and the performing and visual arts for effective clinical psychotherapy.

Examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.

Traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance.

Investigates the representation of rape in British and Irish theater since the second wave of the Women's Movement.

Explores the recent trend of 'theater etiquette': an audience-led crusade to bring 'manners and respect' back to the auditorium.

Frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and how does it represent its national identity?

Challenges critical orthodoxies about the 21^st-century boom in immersive theater and performance.

Explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship.

Lepage's technique is defined here as 'scenographic dramaturgy', a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural collaboration to re-envision extant plays and operas.

Examine the performance of autobiographical material as a theatrical form, a research subject, and a therapeutic method.

Investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theater since the turn of the millennium.

Investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues.

Considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare's presence in South Africa from 1801 to early 20^st-century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity.

Illustrates how Chinese society is reflected by and even constructed through theater.

Asks how theater and performance intersects with commemorative acts or rituals in contemporary theater and performance practice.

Examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia's vibrant independent theatre and performance culture.

Considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early 19^th century to the present day.

Investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Investigates contemporary British and Irish performances that stage traumatic narratives, histories, acts and encounters.

Explores the concept and vocabulary of postdramatic theater from a pedagogical perspective.

Explores the critical field of theater sound and the sonic phenomena of theater.

Contributes to key debates in peace building by exploring the role of theater and art in general.

Examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theater by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries.

Explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.

Assembles texts by renowned academics and theatre artists who were professionally active during the wars in former Yugoslavia.

Discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might "the theatre of death" and "the uncanny in mimesis" allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice?

The first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.

Focuses on Romeo Castellucci's theatrical project, exploring the ethical and aesthetic framework determined by his reflection on the nature of the image.

The scholars and practitioners gathered here (including specialists in theatre history and literature, educational theatre, youth arts, arts policy, socially invested theatre, and activist performance) take up the question of change in thirty-five short essays.

Offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a 'game changer' by many in the theatre industry.

Offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error.

Recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.

Offers an innovative, translocal perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theatre to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre.

Considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities.

Considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking.

Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the 21^st century.

Investigates the theories and practices of leading theatre figures in their transnational and cross-cultural relationship with Asian theatrical traditions.

Explores what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this topic, and how their productions impact audiences.

Analyzes the impact of HIV and AIDS on performance in the 21^st century from an international perspective.

Reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.

Offers both a geographically and historically wide view of ITS subject, taking examples from Britain, Australia and America to the Middle East, Korea and China, and spanning the 5^thcentury BCE to the present day.

Harnesses the theory and practice of dramatic arts for the applied use in communication education. It introduces readers to educational role-play and how to use it, arguing that complete immersion is crucial to successful learning.

Focuses on the studio's sustained commitment to produce films based on stage plays.

Explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre.