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Theatre & Performance 2012

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ContentsTheatre& Series 2

General Theatre and Performance 5

Practice and Practitioners 8

Readers in Theatre Practice Series 8

Theatre and Perfomance Practices Series 12

Dance 13

Gender and Sexuality 14

World Theatre 14

Studies in International Performance Series 14

Theatre History 19

Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Series 19

Modern and Contemporary Theatre 23

Performance Interventions Series 27

Index 31

Welcome to the new Palgrave Macmillan Theatre and Performance 2012 catalogue

For 2012 we have included titles publishing up until March and a selection from later months. This is to ensure that you receive only the most accurate information about forthcoming books.In February we are publishing The Theatre, Drama and Performance Companion (p.5), by Michael Mangan. This is an indispensible guide to prepare and accompany students through their degree.Further notable publications in 2012 include six new additions to our popular Theatre& series (p.2) and Performance Perspectives (p.5), a critical introduction to Performance Studies.At a higher academic level highlights include The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal (p.15), and Theresa Jill Buckland’s Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 (p.13), as well as new additions to our key series, Studies in International Performance (p.14), published in association with FIRT/IFTR and Performance Interventions (p.27).

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TheaTre& SerieSSeries Editors: Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato

The Theatre& series is a major innovation in theatre scholarship: for the first time, A-list scholars mould cutting-edge thinking about theatre into an easy-to-digest and easy-to-afford form for consumption by everyone. By selecting the key issues, but not shying away from the more complex debates, Theatre& brings the very frontiers of theatre scholarship into the hands of any curious reader, allowing every theatre student and lover to take part in these exciting and challenging discussions. Each book is written by a high-profile theatre scholar and represents the latest critical thinking in the discipline. Additionally, the series is edited by two of the leading thinkers in theatre studies and features forewords by some of today’s most important theatre-makers including Edward Bond, Mark Ravenhill, Tim Etchells, Rabih Mroué and Lois Weaver.

Theatre & PhotographyJoel anderson, Course Leader, Theatre Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK

This book examines the shared conceptual terrain of theatre and photography. Joel Anderson explores the photographing of theatre and performance, as well as the ways in which theatre and photography's shared preoccupation with posing, staging, framing, and – perhaps most importantly - stillness, manifests itself.April 2012 104pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-27671-0

Theatre & MuseumsSusan Bennett, University Professor, University of Calgary, Canada

Theatre & Museums explores the relationship between theatre and museums in contemporary culture and the experience of contemporary museums as theatre. It shows how discourses of performance studies can open up new avenues of inquiry about the production and reception of the museum experience and its important place in contemporary culture.May 2012 96pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-58020-6

Theatre & Mind Bruce McConachie, Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh, USA

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. Theatre & Mind provides an introduction to the cognitive foundations of theatre studies and argues that key developments in cognitive science actually challenge some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre. April 2012 104pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-27583-6

Theatre & Nation

Nadine holdsworth, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Foreword by Nicholas hytner

‘Nadine Holdsworth’s excellent book offers a persuasive overview of the ways nation and national identity have been present in a whole range of theatrical practices.’ - Nicholas Hytner, Director of The National Theatre, UK

Throughout the history of the nation-state, theatre has contributed to the construction and reappraisal of the nation and national identities. This book argues that ideas of the nation are constantly in flux and explores the way theatre engages with such changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural climates.June 2010 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-21871-0

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Theatre & ArchitectureJuliet rufford, Research Associate, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Theatre and architecture are seeming opposites: one a time-based art-form experienced in space, the other a spacial art experienced over time. The book will unpick these assumptions, demonstrating ways in which theatre and architecture are co-constitutive and contextualizing their dynamic and complex inter-relationship historically and culturally.March 2012 112pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-21872-7

Theatre & Prison

Caoimhe Mcavinchey, Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Foreword by James Thompson

'A superb contribution to our understanding of the historical and contemporary approaches of prison theatre. A must-read for those interested in the power of in the applied theatre, especially within incarcerated populations.’ - Philip Taylor, Director, New York University’s Program in Educational Theatre, USA

Theatre & Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Using examples from popular culture, dramatic texts and applied theatre it analyzes how theatre and performance reveals economies of punishment, affects penal reform and both challenges and participates in narratives of reformation.September 2011 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-24793-2

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Theatre & the Visual Dominic Johnson, Lecturer in Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies’ preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a proper, political consideration of the visual. Johnson examines the spectator’s role in the theatre, exploring pleasure, difficulty and spectacle, to consider the implications for visual experience in the theatre.April 2012 104pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-24662-1

Theatre & Interculturalism

ric Knowles, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada

'In an increasingly global context this book engages with the impact culture, politics, economics and postcolonial histories have on intercultural interaction. The author not only signals key texts and debates, but also makes accessible what are often complex arguments surrounding approaches to intercultural exchange.’ - Yvette Hutchison, University of Warwick, UK

As human traffic between nations increases and as hybridity becomes more characteristic of cultural production, it becomes imperative to critically re-examine the way cultural exchange is performed. Theatre & Interculturalism surveys established approaches to the topic and proposes new ways of thinking about theatrical flow across cultures.June 2010 104pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-57548-6


Theatre & Ireland

Lionel Pilkington, Senior Lecturer in English, National University of Ireland, Republic of Ireland

Foreword by Fiona Shaw

‘In this book Lionel Pilkington tracks with great clarity the complexity of Irish buffoonery, national theatricality and dissent.’ - Fiona Shaw

Often regarded as innately performative, Ireland has been the location for the ‘drama’ of rebellion and anti-colonial insurgency. This book argues that theatre in Ireland is a cultural phenomenon that is not restricted to professional, urban theatre, but is rooted in alternative and competing traditions of popular drama and performance.July 2010 104pp 178x111mm Paperback £5.99 978-0-230-57462-5


Theatre & Feeling

erin hurley, Assistant Professor, McGill University, USA

Foreword by anne Bogart

‘An excellent book...the writing is extraordinarily lucid, without ever simplifying the issues at hand. The effect is really pleasurable.’ - Nicholas Ridout, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, bringing the issue of theatrical feeling into focus as both a research object and a method in Theatre Studies.June 2010 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-21846-8


Theatre & Sexuality

Jill Dolan, Professor of English and Theatre, Princeton University, USA

Foreword by Tim Miller

‘Jill Dolan’s marvelous book demonstrates how central questions of sexuality have been for the modern theatre, explaining the major arguments and debates with great clarity and force.’ - David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre, City University of New York, USA ‘An urgently needed exploration of the deliciously queered formations of desire, gender and love that are conjured abundantly in theatre. SLEEP WITH THIS BOOK!’ - Tim Miller, performer and author of Boy Blows and 1001 Beds

Theatre & Sexuality explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatre’s creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of ‘reading’ sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split Britches/Bloolips’ production Belle Reprieve.June 2010 120pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-22064-5


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Theatre & The Body

Colette Conroy, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Foreword by Marina abramoviĆ

Bodies are active and dynamic elements of theatre production and spectatorship. They are important concepts as well as objects within theatre. This book examines the rich and complex relationships between the uses of bodies in theatre and the ways in which bodies are culturally imagined and understood in theatre.December 2009 96pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-20543-7


Theatre & Ethics

Nicholas ridout, Senior Lecturer in Performance, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and practical examples, Ridout makes a clear and compelling critical intervention, raising fundamental questions about what theatre is for and how audiences interact with it.June 2009 88pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-21027-1


Theatre & Globalization

Dan rebellato, Professor of Contemporary Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Foreword by Mark ravenhill

What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world? Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to Complicite, tragedy to advertising, this original and provocative book explores the contribution that the theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole.June 2009 112pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-21830-7


Theatre & Education

helen Nicholson, Professor of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Foreword by edward Bond

Theatre & Education provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who work with young people in educational settings. It argues that the aesthetic principles and educational ideals that inform theatre and education drive at the heart of why theatre matters. June 2009 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-21857-4


Theatre & Audience

helen Freshwater, RCUK Research Fellow in Theatre Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Foreword by Lois Weaver

A provocative overview of the questions raised by theatrical encounters between performers and audiences, drawing on examples that have sought to generate active audience involvement from Brecht’s epic theatre to The Blue Man Group. It argues for more audience-responsive approaches to what theatre does for those who witness, watch or participate.June 2009 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-21028-8


Theatre & Human Rights

Paul rae, Assistant Professor, Theatre Studies Programme, National University of Singapore

Foreword by rabih Mroue

With its impassioned plays, inspired activism and outspoken artists, the theatre has long provided a venue for promoting and practising human rights; but is this always to the good? Drawing on an international range of examples, this short, sharp and timely book examines the theatre’s support for - and challenges to - human rights today. June 2009 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-20524-6


Theatre & Politics

Joe Kelleher, Professor of Theatre and Performance, Roehampton University, UK

Keheller explores the relationship between theatre and politics, challenging some of the assumptions that often arise when they are brought together. The book engages with both a broad range of key theoretical material from Plato to Rancière, and theatrical examples

from Shakespeare and his adaptors through Peter Handke to debbie tucker green.June 2009 96pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-20523-9


Theatre & the City

Jen harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Foreword by Tim etchells

How do power dynamics, ideologies and identity play out in relations between theatre and the city? Evaluating material conditions such as architecture and performative practices such as urban activism, Harvie argues both contribute to understanding the complex economies and ecologies of theatre and performance in an increasingly urbanized world.June 2009 104pp 178x111mmPaperback £5.99 978-0-230-20522-2


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GENERAL THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE

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The Theatre, Drama and Performance Companion

Michael Mangan, Chair in Drama, University of Exeter, UK

Offering essential guidance to students throughout their undergraduate studies, this companion explores the development of a discipline that is still in flux, offers practical advice about how to study it and where this study might lead, and provides a useful

reference source on key practitioners, debates, performances and terms.

Contents: Introduction: How to Use this Book / PART 1: DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE: THE SUBJECT AND ITS STUDY / The Context of the Subject / Your Course and what to Expect from it / Study Skills for Drama, Theatre and Performance Students / PART 2: CORE TOPICS IN DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE / Developments and Directions / Working Practically 1: Acting / Working Practically 2: Devising / Working Practically 3: Directing / Theatre Histories / Analysing Texts / Questions of Theory / Theatre and Gender / Theatre and the World: Globalization, Interculturalism and Postcolonialism / The Uses of Drama: Applying Performance / Mediating Performance: From the Machine Age to the Digital Age / PART 3: KEY CONCEPTS / PART 4: LANDMARKS: KEY PRACTITIONERS, THEORISTS AND PERFORMANCES / PART 5: FRAMEWORKS FOR RESEARCH: KEY WRITINGS ON DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE / PART 6: WHAT NEXT? / PART 7: RESOURCES FOR STUDYING DRAMA, THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE / Index

March 2012 336pp 234x156mm Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-55165-7

Performance Perspectives A Critical Introduction

Edited by Jonathan Pitches and Sita Popat, both at University of Leeds, UK

'This book is a guide and a map to key concepts that inspire the making and theorizing of performance.' - Lin Hixson, Art Institute of Chicago, USA

This critical introduction to Performance Studies provides undergraduates

with an accessible way into terminology and context. Using an innovative tripartite structure that combines the voices of artists, critics and teachers, it addresses a variety of practices moving through body, space, time, technology, interactivity and organization.

Contents: Foreword; M.Wallis / Acknowledgements / Introduction; J.Pitches / PART I: BODY; Introduced and Edited by A.Fenemore / Any Body? The Multiple Bodies of the Performer; V.Ramirez Ladron De Guevera / Some Body and No Body: The Body of a Performer; W.Houstoun / Every Body: Performance's Other Bodies; A.Fenemore / PART II: SPACE; Introduced and edited by S.Palmer / Event-Space: Performance Space and Spatial Performativity; D.Hannah / Scenographic Space and Place; L.A.Wilson / Audience Space/Scenographic Space; S.Palmer / PART III: TIME; Introduced and Edited by T.Gardner / Theatre, Technology and Time; S.Dixon / Ghost Dance: Time and Duration in the Work of Lone Twin; G.Whelan / The Lives and Times of Performance; T.Gardner / PART IV: TECHNOLOGY; Introduced and edited by S.Popat / Gaming and Performance: Narrative and Identity; J.Wood / SwanQuake House - 'Messing the System Up'; R.Gibson & B.Martelli / Performance and Technology: The Myth of Disembodiment; S.Popat / PART V: INTERACTIVITY; Introduced and Edited by A.O'Grady / Boalian Perspectives on Interactivity in Theatre; J.Somers / Interactivity and the Work of Blast Theory; M.Adams / Interactivity: Functions and Risks; A.O'Grady / PART VI: ORGANISATION; Introduced and Edited by C.Taylor / Performance, Culture and Industry; R.Brown / Organisational Agility and Improvisation; T.Greenstreet / Performance, Organisation, Theory; C.Taylor / Epilogue; J.Pitches / Bibliography

September 2011 272pp 234x156mm Paperback £18.99 978-0-230-24346-0


Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice alrutz, Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice

Megan alrutz, Orlando Repertory Theatre, USA, Julia Listengarten and M. Van Duyn Wood, both at University of Central Florida, USA

This collection of original essays and case studies explores the value and function of theory in theatre, and the multi-faceted and complex relationship between theory and theatre practice.

Contents: Introduction / PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING THEORY AND PRACTICE / Introduction to Part I / Approaching Theory: Scholar and Practitioner; M.Van de Water / The Function of Theory at the Present Time?; M.Fortier / ‘There is a World Elsewhere’: The Endgame of Theory and Practice; M.Kobialka / PART II: INTERROGATING THEORY IN PRACTICE: PRODUCTIVE TENSIONS, QUESTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS / Introduction to Part II / Lost in Translation: Moving Theory into Dramaturgy; L.Inez-Brown / The Question of Authenticity and Ethics in Children’s Theatre and Art; S.Etheridge Woodson / Theatrical Nationalism and Subversive Affirmation; S.Wilmer / Moving Spectators Toward Progressive Politics by Combining Brechtian Theory with Cognitive Science; B.McConachie / Sensual Engagements: Understanding Theories of the Senses and their Potential Applications within Theatre Practice; S.DiBenedetto / Intermediate Bodies: Media Theory and Theatre; S.Bay-Cheng / Resisting Binaries: Theory and Acting; J.Lutterbie / Intuition in Practice: Emotion and Feeling in the Artistic Process; H.Feiner / PART III: CASE STUDIES: APPLYING THEORY WITHIN AND THROUGH THE PRODUCTION PROCESS / Introduction to Part III /Cyrano’s Intercultural Voyages in India; D.McManus /Theoretical Terrain and Performance Practice: An Actor’s Journey into the Uncharted Territory of Landscape Theatre; B.Hanemann / Under the Influence; A.Mello / (Re)presenting Silenced Voices: Negotiating Multiple Landscapes Through Body, Voice and Architecture; J.Listengarten and C.Niess / Voice and the Venus: Opening up Voice and Speech with Post-Colonial Theories; L.Dougherty / Theatre is Theory: A Case Study of Ghosting; H.Blau / Seven Instructions: A Dialogue; M.Rohd and S.Scrofano / Modulating Theory: Breaking New Ground in Musical Theatre Study; J.Bell / IndexOctober 2011 256pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-0-230-57779-4 Paperback £17.99 978-0-230-57780-0






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Interpreting the Play ScriptContemplation and Analysis

anne Fliotsos, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Purdue University, USA

‘I am convinced that this book will become an important text for studies in play and script analysis. It promises to draw in various levels of students and theatre practitioners because of its unique introduction of inner contemplation via Zen philosophy

and practice. It also lays possibly new and interesting groundwork for further exploration into successful script analysis and acting.’ - Gail Medford, Professor of Theatre Arts, Bowie State University, USA‘Interpreting the Playscript has a great deal to offer teachers and students interested in analyzing contemporary plays that do not use traditional forms. It is the first book I have seen that devotes significant space to identifying serious methods of analyzing unconventional plays, alongside the most useful methods of traditional script analysis. I have long been looking for just such a text to use in my courses - one that helps to rigorously develop the artist’s response to a script.’ - Shelley Orr, Lecturer, San Diego State University, USA and Past President, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

One type of analysis cannot fit every play, nor does one method of interpretation suit every theatre artist or collaborative team. This is the first text to combine traditional and non-traditional models, giving students a range of tools with which to approach different kinds of performance.

Contents: Preface / Introduction / PART I: CONTEMPLATION AND INTUITIVE RESPONSE / PART II: FORMALIST ANALYSIS / PART III: DRAMATURGY AND THE NON-LINEAR PLAY / PART IV: RESPONDING TO THE SCRIPT / Index

August 2011 136pp 198x129mm Hardback £35.00 978-0-230-29003-7Paperback £8.99 978-0-230-29004-4


An Actor’s Craft The Art and Technique of Acting

David Krasner, Associate Professor of Acting, Emerson College, USA

An inspirational guide for advanced acting students that brings together multiple ways of creating excellence in performance. Combining technique with personal examples, Krasner provides tried and tested exercises, a history of actor training and explores the complex

relationships between acting theories and teachers.

Contents: Introduction: What is Acting? / PART I: PREPARING MIND AND BODY / Preparation: Relaxation, Concentration and Breathing / Vocal and Physical Dynamics / Personalizing: Sense and Emotion Memory / PART II: PASSION AND INSPIRATION / Secrets and Sources / Physicalization and Analysis Through Action / Actions and Six Basic Actions / Improvisation and Jazz Acting / PART III: PERFORMING THE ROLE / Living Through and Interstitial Scenes / Lying and Denial / The Role: Psychological Gesture, Homework and Rehearsal / Conclusion / Bibliography / Brief Biographies of Key Acting Teachers

November 2011 240pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-27552-2Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-27553-9


Toward a General Theory of Acting Cognitive Science and Performance

John Lutterbie, Department of Theatre Arts, Stony Brook University, USA

Using the cognitive sciences, Lutterbie employs dynamic systems theory as a foundation and integrates recent discoveries in neuroscience and cognitive psychology in his examination of acting theory.May 2011 280pp 216x138mm Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-11335-0

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Playing For Real Actors on Playing Real People

Edited by Tom Cantrell, Actor, Tutor and Researcher, Department of Theatre, Film and TV and Mary Luckhurst, Professor of Modern Drama, both at University of York, UK

‘A fascinating insight into the methods, challenges and rewards of taking on roles of people in the public eye.’ - Whatsonstage.com ‘This book of interviews brilliantly explores

what it means for an actor to be playing Freud or Gordon Brown, Lawrence of Arabia or Charles Dickens. The actors’ answers are as various as the people being portrayed but the intriguing problem these interviews investigate is, for the first time, excitingly put centre-stage.’ - Peter Holland, McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA

This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarchs or political leaders? Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart or Darwin? With a multiple award-winning line-up, including Sir Ian McKellen on playing himself in Ricky Gervais’s Extras.July 2010 176pp 198x129mmHardback £42.50 978-0-230-23041-5Paperback £9.99 978-0-230-23042-2




Working Together in Theatre Collaboration & Leadership

robert Cohen, Claire Trevor Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine, USA

‘Whether you’re studying to become a professional or an early-career pro who wants to rise quickly, this book will be invaluable. Read it, learn from it, and you’ll find yourself working together with your collaborators to make

great theatre.’ - Tom Markus, Director, Actor, Author, Playwright, Translator, Dramaturg and Educator

Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world’s great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production’s conception to its final performance. The book provides the techniques, exercises and language that promote collaborative skills.December 2010 232pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-23981-4Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-23982-1


Key Concepts in Drama and Performance 2nd edition

Kenneth Pickering, Founder/Director, Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, UK

May 2010 312pp 216x138mmPaperback £15.99 978-0-230-24147-3

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Acting Professionally Raw Facts About Careers in Acting7th edition

robert Cohen, Claire Trevor Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine, USA and James Calleri, President of Calleri Casting and Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University, USA

‘It is the leading book of its kind, and certainly the best available resource for young actors who wish to begin their professional careers.’ - Harold Dixon, University Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona, USA

Filled with practical information on how to enter the acting profession, and now completely updated, this is the essential handbook for anyone interested in an acting career. Praised for its honesty, broad coverage and wise advice from working professionals, the authors present the vital facts that every would-be actor needs to know.August 2009 272pp 216x138mm Paperback £18.99 978-0-230-21724-9


Theatre Studies

Kenneth Pickering, Founder/Director, Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, UK and Mark Woolgar, Programme Manager, Richmond Drama School, Richmond Adult College, UK

‘This is one of those all-encompasing and highly accessible companions to undergraduate and diploma courses that you can tell will be covered with highlighter marks and coffee stains by students within a week. Its super-neat layout - lots of white space, bold headings and bullet points - makes it a great introduction and handy for revision. Clear and informative, Pickering and Woolgar outline challenges in defining theatre, summarize the ideas of key practitioners, and provide reassuring advice on how to undertake a research project.’ - What’s On Stage.comJune 2009 224pp 234x156mmPaperback £17.99 978-0-230-21141-4

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Engaging Audiences A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre

Bruce McConachie, Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA

‘Armed with a deep knowledge of the history of spectatorship, McConachie constructively engages with the recent findings of cognitive scientists to challenge fundamental assumptions about how

and why we view and recall theatrical events. The result is a thoughtful, readable, and provocative work with important implications for critical theory, historiography, and production.’ - John Emigh, Professor of Theatre, Speech, and Dance and of English, Brown University, USA

This book provides an introduction to spectator response from the perspective of cognitive science, using insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy, and memory in theatregoing.

Contents: Introduction / General Cognition for Theatre Audiences / Social Cognition in Spectating / Cultural Cognition in History / Epilogue: Writing Cognitive Audience Histories

August 2011 262pp 216x138mmPaperback £17.99 978-0-230-11673-3

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Wild and Dangerous Performances Animals, Emotions, Circus

Peta Tait, Professor/Chair of Theatre and Drama, LaTrobe University, Australia

‘Wild and Dangerous Performances is a highly readable account of the ways in which circus animals, particularly big cats (lions, tigers, leopards) and elephants, respond on an emotional level to, even develop an emotional rapport with, their trainers.

Tait’s new book provides a vivid perspective on developments in animal training in the nineteenth and twentieth century, while wryly noting the persistent gender stereotyping of both trainers and performing animals. This is an original, academically well grounded study, which valuably extends our knowledge of performance history.’ - Professor Jim Davis, University of Warwick, UK

Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement. This book analyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion that animals embody a phenomenology of emotions and feelings in culture.

Contents: Acknowledgements / List of Illustrations / Introduction / Calm Patience and Pyramid Poses / The Lion Roars from a Pedestal / Dancing Elephants in Skirts / Leopard Around the Neck / Born Free Again / Sensing Emotion / Works Cited / Index

October 2011 240pp 216x138mm 21 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-24648-5


A Pathognomy of Performance

Simon Bayly, Principal Lecturer , University of Roehampton, UK

Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life.February 2011 256pp 216x138mm 22 b/w photographsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-27169-2


The Social Impact of the Arts An Intellectual History

eleonora Belfiore, Assistant Professor of Cultural Policy Studies and Oliver Bennett, Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, both at University of Warwick, UK

‘The book’s compass and ambition is nothing short of humbling...One hopes that undergraduate courses in all branches of historical cultural enquiry are able to find room to accommodate

such wide-angle approaches to their subjects...Highly recommended to all undergraduate students of the arts.' - Chris Jones, THE Textbook Guide

Now in paperback, an intellectual history of contrasting ideas around the power of the arts to engender personal and societal change - for better and worse. A fascinating account of the value and functions of the arts in society, in the private sphere of individual emotions and self-development and public sphere of politics and social distinction.October 2010 248pp 216x138mmPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-27351-1

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PRACTICE AND PRACTITIONERS

reaDerS iN TheaTre PraCTiCeSeries Editor: Simon Shepherd

At the heart of every performance lies a tension, a tension between the material object and the magical transformations of theatre. Taking elements of theatre craft such as sound, puppetry and directing, the series explores this relationship, offering both the vocabulary and historical context for critical discussion and creative practice.

Puppetry A Reader in Theatre Practice

Penny Francis, Lecturer in Puppetry, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK

Theatre-goers are increasingly aware of the growing use of object and figure animation throughout the performing arts. Puppetry offers engaging contemporary perspectives on this universal art-form. It provides an account of puppetry’s different

facets, from its demands and techniques, through its uses and abuses to its history and philosophy.

Contents: Introduction / Approach / Related Arts / Techniques / In Performance / Dramaturgy / Aesthetics / History / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index

December 2011 256pp 234x156mm 25 b/w photographs and 3 b/w line drawingsHardback £60.00 978-0-230-23272-3Paperback £22.99 978-0-230-23273-0




Light A Reader in Theatre Practice

Scott Palmer, Deputy Head of School and Lecturer in Scenography, University of Leeds, UK

Light contains a range of classic accounts and rare documents that offer not only different approaches to light as a creative force in performance, but also an account of its rich history as a practice. Considered through its equipment, its dramaturgy, and as

an element of design, light is shown to have a profound effect on an audience.

Contents: Introduction / The Evolution of Lighting Design / Light as a Spectacle / Light, the Playhouse and the Scene / Light and the Audience / Light and Space / The Dramaturgy of Light / Light and the Body / Light as Material / Tools and Techniques / Techniques and Tools / The Lighting Operator / The Lighting Designer / Conclusion / A Lighting Chronology / Bibliography / Index

March 2012 256pp 246x189mm Paperback £22.99 978-0-230-55190-9

Sound

A Reader in Theatre Practice ross Brown, Dean of Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK

‘There is no other book that considers equally and inseparably the theory, philosophy and practice of stage sound. A rigorously controlled piece of research of great originality and of terrific significance to the discipline.’ - Chris Baugh, University of Leeds, UK

Brown explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing on sound’s interdependence and interaction with human performance and drama. Suggesting different ways in which sound may be interpreted to create meaning, it includes key writings on sound design, as well as perspectives from beyond the discipline. November 2009 264pp 234x156mm 3 figures and 9 b/w photographsHardback £60.00 978-0-230-55187-9Paperback £19.99 978-0-230-55188-6


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Disability Culture and Community Performance Find a Strange and Twisted Shape

Petra Kuppers, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA

‘In this book, Petra Kuppers...provides a rigourous, sophisticated and strikingly poetic series of mediations on the processes, pleasures and challenges of working in this field...Thoughtful, thought-provoking and accessible, this

book will be of compelling interest not just to scholars of disability culture, but to a whole new generation of scholars looking to use arts practice as a laboratory in which identity, community and culture can be creatively re-imaged and re-imagined.' - Bree Hadley, Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgements / Introduction / PART I: MAKING A HOME / Landscaping: Spacings / Dancing Stories about Home: A Community Dance Residency in a Hospice in New Zealand / Community Arts and Practices: Improvising Being-Together / PART II: RHIZOMES/CONNECTIONS / Toward a Rhizomatic Model of Disability: Poetry, Performance, and Touch / Burning Butoh: Self/Community / Rhizome: Choreography of a Moving Self / Rhizome: Collaboration / Rhizome: Beyond Story, Community Performance and Somatic Poetics / PART III: MEMORY TOUCH / Introduction: Desirous History / Performing Anarcha / Remembering Anarcha / The Anarcha Project Performative Lecture / The Anarcha Project: A Process Report / PART IV: SENSUAL HISTORY AND MYTH-MAKING / Introduction / Tiresian Journeys / Teaching Disability Culture: Reflections on Tiresias in the Classroom / Epilogue / Bibliography / Index

August 2011 272pp 216x138mm 25 b/w photographsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-29827-9






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Theatre, Education and Performance

helen Nicholson, Professor of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Theatre education has often provided theatre-makers with radical new ways to encourage social participation and aesthetic engagement. This timely book raises questions about how twentieth century practices have been revised in the twenty-first

century, and how theatre-makers are finding new ways to engage young people in contemporary issues.

Contents: Mapping Stories / PART I: LOOKING BACK: HISTORIES AND LANDSCAPES / Spaces to Imagine: Theatre and Social Reform / Spaces to Play: Childhood, Theatre and Educational Utopias / Places to Learn: Activity and Activism / PART II: MOVING ON: THEATRE EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY / Traces and Places / Globalisation and Regeneration: Re-branding Creativity / Dramatising Home: Places of Safety and Risk / ‘This Island’s Mine’: National Identity and Questions of Belonging / International Spaces: Global Citizenship and Cultural Exchange / Changing Worlds: Performing Science, Theatre and Public Engagement / Cool Spaces: Learning in Theatre and Beyond Theatres / Bibliography

April 2011 256pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-57422-9Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-57423-6


Theatre For Change Education, Social Action and Therapy

robert Landy and David T. Montgomery, both at New York University, USA

Providing an international overview of the latest work and thinking in Drama and Education, and featuring interviews with a worldwide variety of leading practitioners and theorists, this book explores how Educational Theatre, Applied Theatre and Drama Therapy facilitate change within schools, community centres, prisons, and theatres. February 2012 288pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-0-230-24365-1 Paperback £17.99 978-0-230-24366-8

Site-Specific Performance

Mike Pearson, Professor of Performance Studies and Director of Postgraduate Studies, University of Wales, UK

‘This rewarding study offers challenging contexts, questions, and exercises for students. It engages with the broad range of disciplines upon which one may call for site-specificity, privileging place but

not overlooking the significance of bodies, time, and other considerations which help determine place.’ - Joanne Tompkins, Professor of Drama, University of Queensland, Australia

The text proposes original approaches to the creation and study of performance outside the auditorium. It suggests innovative strategies, methods and techniques for making theatre in various locations, and through examples, case studies and projects develops distinctive theoretical insights into the relationship of site and performance.November 2010 224pp 234x156mm 34 b/w photograohsHardback £49.50 978-0-230-57670-4Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-57671-1


Performance and the Contemporary City An Interdisciplinary Reader

Edited by Nicolas Whybrow, University of Warwick, UK

‘...intellectually and poetically rich, suggestive, informative and engaging. The book ranges impressively and enticingly across different critical and creative practices, as well as from the early twentieth century to the present and to different

parts of the globe.’ - Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Whybrow’s interdisciplinary collection of urban writings demonstrates how performance is ‘at work’ in the city. His selection highlights both diversity and the potential for interaction, drawing attention to the possible identities produced by the multi-faceted nature of the modern metropolis. May 2010 328pp 234x156mm 15 b/w line drawings and 63 b/w photographsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-52719-5Paperback £19.99 978-0-230-52720-1


The Actor in Costume

aoife Monks, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

‘...proposes a new and vital way of talking about theatrical costuming, an approach that accords to stage wear the theoretical and historical weight it surely deserves.’ - Contemporary Theatre Review

How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. The book considers costume’s power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts.December 2009 176pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-0-230-21699-0Paperback £17.99 978-0-230-21700-3




Devising in Process

Edited by alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart, both at Kingston University, UK

Devising in Process brings together detailed case studies of the creative process of eight theatre companies making devising-based performances in styles ranging from physical theatre to puppetry to live art. Writers have been granted unusual access to the rehearsal room,

enabling them to offer concrete insights into how ideas evolve and develop.

Contents: Introduction / People Show in Rehearsal: People Show #118 The Birthday Tour; S.Behrndt / Station House Opera; J.Kelly / The Making of Faulty Optic’s Dead Wedding: Inertia, Chaos and Adaptation; T.Moss / Devising and Advocacy: The Red Room’s Unstated; G.White / The Distance Covered: Third Angel’s 9 Billion Miles from Home; P.Stainer / Delirium: In Rehearsal with Theatre O; H.Freshwater / Clash and Consensus in Shunt’s ‘big shows’ and the Lounge; A.Mermikides / Sculpting the Territory: Gecko’s The Arab and The Jew in Process; J.Smart

June 2010 208pp 216x138mm 22 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-57366-6Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-57367-3


The Chemistry of the Theatre Performativity of Time

Jerzy Limon, Professor of English and Theatre Studies, University of Gdansk, Poland

'This is a truly groundbreaking account of theatre’s chemistry, especially as it relates to time, space, and affect. Having been the Artistic Director of the Gdańsk International Shakespeare Festival for over fourteen years, where many

of the world’s best theatre companies and directors present their work, Limon really knows contemporary theatre. He brings this knowledge to this book with remarkable ingenuity and eloquence. The Chemistry of the Theatre is a spectacular accomplishment and a major contribution to theatre studies.' - Professor Bryan Reynolds, University of California, Irvine, USASeptember 2010 256pp 216x138mm 7 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-24111-4

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Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies

Edited by Shannon rose riley, Assistant Professor of Humanities, San Jose State University, USA and Lynette hunter, Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance, University of California, Davis, USA

July 2009 304pp 216x138mm 9 b/w photographsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-22219-9

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Practice-as-ResearchIn Performance and Screen

Edited by Ludivine allegue, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France, Simon Jones, Professor of Performance, University of Bristol, UK, Baz Kershaw, Professor of Performance, University of Warwick, UK and angela Piccini, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Bristol, UK

‘This represents the first comprehensive attempt to lay down disciplinary

and epistemological parameters for the field of Practice as Research. As such it is completely new, groundbreaking and important.’ - Dr Lynette Hunter, University of California, Davis, USA

This groundbreaking integrated book and DVD presents an exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project. Through an innovative combination of formats, it aims to embody the principles of performance and screen practice-as-research in its structure and design.

Contents: How to use this Publication / Acknowledgements / Practice-as-Research: An Introduction; B.Kershaw / The Courage of Complementarity: Practice-as-Research as a Paradigm Shift in Performance Studies; S.Jones / Of Fevered Archives and the Quest for Total Documentation; A.Piccini& C.Rye / Making a Difference: Media Practice-as-Research, Creative Economies and Cultural Ecologies; J.Dovey / Collaborative Ethics in Practice-as-Research; C.Bannerman & C.McLaughlin / Digital Archives: Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose; B.Smith / Peer Review and Criteria: A Discussion; J.Adams, J.Bacon & L.Thynne / Modes of Practice-as-Research Knowledge and Their Place in the Academy; R.Nelson / Practice-as-Research in France 2008; L.Allegue & M.Costin / Transnet a Canadian-Based Case Study on Practice-as-Research, or Rethinking Dance in a Knowledge-Based Society; H.Daniel / Performance Research in Australia 1988-2007; A.Richards / Images / List of Colour Images / Catalogue / Bibliography / Index / List of Catalogue Contributors / DVD

August 2009 272pp 234x156mm 12 b/w photographs and 8 colour platesHardback £70.00 978-0-230-22001-0


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Series Editors: Graham Ley and Jane Milling

The series explores key performance and practices encountered in the study of modern and contemporary theatre. Each book in the series charts the critical and historical development of a mode of performance practice and assesses its contemporary significance.

Autobiography and Performance

Deirdre heddon, University of Glasgow, UK

Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performances act as sites of resistance and

intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance.November 2007 232pp 216x138mmHardback £52.50 978-0-230-53752-1Paperback £17.99 978-0-230-53753-8


Theatre, Performance and Technology The Development of Scenography in the Twentieth Century

Christopher Baugh, University of Hull, UK

This book explores ways in which development and change in technology have been reflected in scenography, and considers how change in scenographic identity has impacted upon the place and meaning of performance.October 2005 272pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-1-4039-1696-9Paperback £17.99 978-1-4039-1697-6


Dramaturgy and Performance Cathy Turner, Senior Lecturer in Drama, University of Exeter, UK and Synne Behrndt, University of Winchester, UK

There is a growing interest in ‘dramaturgy’ as a critical concept and as a practical process. Outlining different perspectives this book introduces both concept and practice in an accessible and engaging style. Using case studies and suggesting areas of further study, the authors provide an insight into contemporary debates and new directions.November 2007 248pp 216x138mmHardback £52.50 978-1-4039-9655-8Paperback £17.99 978-1-4039-9656-5


Staging the Screen The Use of Film and Video in Theatre

Greg Giesekam, Ankur Productions

The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work.November 2007 296pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-1-4039-1698-3Paperback £17.99 978-1-4039-1699-0


Storytelling and Theatre Contemporary Professional Storytellers and their Art

Michael Wilson, University of Glamorgan, UK

Michael Wilson addresses the rise of storytelling as a professional performance art by providing a critical survey of current practice and a critical framework for debates in the field. The text includes critical analysis of a range of practices alongside interviews with key contemporary practitioners about their work.October 2005 240pp 216x138mmHardback £52.50 978-1-4039-0664-9Paperback £17.99 978-1-4039-0665-6

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Devising Performance A Critical History

Deirdre heddon, University of Glasgow, UK and Jane Milling, University of Exeter, UK

The book charts the development of collaboratively-created performances from the 1950s to the present day. Companies discussed include the Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Théâtre de Complicité,

Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment and Third Angel.October 2005 280pp 216x138mmHardback £52.50 978-1-4039-0662-5Paperback £17.99 978-1-4039-0663-2

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Applied Drama

helen Nicholson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Helen Nicholson examines the ways in which drama and theatre have been applied to different community and educational contexts. She provides an overview of the theoretical concepts underpinning practice in applied drama and theatre and examines a range of practices in the light of contemporary theoretical and political concerns. September 2005 208pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-1-4039-1645-7Paperback £17.99 978-1-4039-1646-4

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Please use the following ISBN(s)to order all titles in this series: Hardback: 978-1-4039-8735-8 Paperback: 978-1-4039-8736-5

Dance


Dance

an Introduction to community Dance Practice

Edited by Diane Amans, Director of Freedom in Dance

‘a rich stock of case studies and personal experiences - often moving - bring theoretical concerns to life...this is an inspiring read that will give courage to all those dancers who work with community groups. There should be a well-thumbed copy in every

dancer’s kitbag.’ - Arts ProfessionalJuly 2008 296pp 234x156mmHardback £52.50 978-0-230-55168-8Paperback £17.99 978-0-230-55169-5


ageing, Gender, embodiment and Dance Finding a Balance

Elisabeth Schwaiger, Research Academic, Murdoch University, Australia

This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore alternatives for developing a culturally valued mature subjectivity through the practice of dance.

Contents: Acknowledgements / Prelude / Constructing Aging, Gender and Self / Gendered Aging in Theatrical Dance / The Dancers Speak / Dancing between Construction and Experience / Dancing the Self through Aging / Counter-discourses / Valuing the Mature Dancer: Cross-cultural Perspectives / Coda / Appendix A: Constructing Aging and Gender: A Selective Literature Review / References / Index

December 2011 240pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-27640-6


Dancing naturally nature, neo-classicism and Modernity in early Twentieth-century Dance

Edited by Rachel Fensham, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studie, University of Surrey, UK and Alexandra Carter, Emeritus Professor of Dance Studies, Middlesex University, UK

‘...this exciting collection makes an important contribution to the field of dance studies. Intersecting detailed studies of a range of movement practices

with historical and contemporary discourse the book is interdisciplinary in approach and will be of interest to a broad range of readers. Thoroughly enjoyable.’- Vida L.Midgelow, University of northampton, UK

A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Nature, Force and Variation; R.Fensham / Constructing and Contesting the Natural in British Theatre Dance; A.Carter / Ideas of Nature, the Natural and the Modern Shaping Dance Discourse; M.Huxley & R.Burt / The Ancient Greeks and the ‘Natural’; F.Macintosh / From the Artificial to the Natural Body: Social Dancing in Britain; T.Buckland / Dancing Based on Natural Movement; M.A.Johnstone & M.Atkinson / Undressing and Dressing Up: Natural Movement’s Life in Costume; R.Fensham / Nature Moving in Succession: Doris Humphrey’s ‘Water Study’; L.Main / Tensing and Relaxing Naturally: Systematic Approaches to Training the Body; S.Foster / ‘Female Nature’, Body Culture and Plastique; K.Vedel / Tethering the Flow: Dance, Physical Culture and Antiquity in Interwar Australia; A.Card / Mining Anatomy: Moving Naturally; L.Worth / Index



Dancing on the canon embodiments of Value in Popular Dance

Sherril Dodds, Lecturer in Dance Studies, University of Surrey, UK

‘This is a very well-researched, thoughtful, and thoroughly argued study, which should have a significant impact on the dance studies field.’ - Julie Malnig, associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Performance, new York University, USa

Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate complex expressions of judgment, significance and worth through their embodied practice.June 2011 248pp 216x138mm 20 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-57995-8


Society Dancing Fashionable Bodies in england, 1870-1920

Theresa Jill Buckland, Professor of Performing Arts, De Montfort University, UK

Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London’s fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and creative

individual expression.June 2011 264pp 216x138mm 19 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-27714-4


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Masculinity and Film Performance Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema

Donna Peberdy, Course Leader/Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Southampton Solent University, UK

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Peberdy examines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen.July 2011 232pp 216x138mm 18 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-28378-7


Feminist and Queer Performance Critical Strategies

Sue-ellen Case, University College Los Angeles, USA

Sue-Ellen Case is arguably the most influential and significant scholar in feminist and queer theatre studies. This collection brings together her most important writings. November 2008 208pp 216x138mm Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-53754-5 Paperback £19.99 978-0-230-53755-2


Feminism and Theatre Reissued edition

Sue-ellen Case, University College Los Angeles, USA

Foreword by elaine aston

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. The reissued edition features a new Preface by Elaine Aston.February 2008 184pp 216x138mmHardback £55.00 978-0-230-52117-9Paperback £18.99 978-0-230-52118-6


Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory

Edited by Geraldine harris, Professor of Theatre Studies and elaine aston, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, both at Lancaster University, UK

April 2006 264pp 216x138mmHardback £63.00 978-1-4039-4532-7Paperback £20.99 978-1-4039-4533-4

Performance InterventionsSeries Editors: Elaine Aston and Bryan Reynolds

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Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans

robert a. Schanke, Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Central College, Iowa, USA

A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theatre whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke’s examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this

pivotal moment of gay American history. August 2011 262pp 216x138mm 20pp illustrationsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-11575-0


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STuDieS iN iNTerNaTiONaL PerFOrMaNCe

Series Editors: Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton Published in association with the IFTR/FIRT

Dancing Communities Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City

Judith hamera, Professor and Department Head, Performance Studies, Texas A&M University, USA

‘As a practitioner of several disciplines...and as a resident of the global city wherein Hamera grounds her investigation, I recommend Dancing Communities not only as a text worth reading but, even more so, as a

task worth rehearsing.’ - Shakina Nayfack, Dance Research Journal

Dancers create ‘civic culture’ as performances for public consumption and vernaculars connecting individuals with little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities, this book, now in paperback with a new preface, suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live and work together. July 2011 264pp 216x138mm 8 in-text b/w photographsPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-30233-4

Winner of the Book of the Year award from the ethnography Division of the National Communication associationebook available from: Ebook Library, NetLibrary, ebooks.com, Myilibrary, Dawson ERA, Palgrave Connect Literature & Performing Arts Collections, Ebrary


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The Rise of Performance Studies Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum

Edited by James M. harding, University of Mary Washington, USA and Cindy rosenthal, Hofstra University, USA

Contents: List of Illustrations / Series Preface / Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Introduction / The Rise of Performance Studies: An Introduction; J.Harding & C.Rosenthal / PART I: PERFORMANCE/THEATRE/STUDIES / Performance

Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies; M.Carlson / In Defence of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner; S.Bottoms / Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies; J.Harding & C.Rosenthal / PART II: PERFORMANCE STUDIES GENEALOGIES / Wayang Studies?; P.Rae / Today I am a Field: Performance Studies Comes of Age; H.Bial / Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China; P.Yongwen & Y.Jiancun / Australian Performance Studies Marginally Off Centre; P.Eckersall / PART III: WORKING WITH RICHARD / Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back; R.Schneider / Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner’s TDR; M.Sandford / Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies; J.Emigh / The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond; P.Zarrilli / PART IV: PRACTICING PERFORMANCE: SCHECHNER AMONG THE PERFORMERS / Richard Schechner; J.Malina / Interview; J.MacIntosh / Interview; E.LeCompte / For Richard; A.D.Smith / Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror; G.Gomez-Pena / PART V: ENGAGING DIALOGUE: SCHECHNER AS CRITICAL INTERLOCUTOR / Trauma as Durational Performance; D.Taylor / Medical Clowning and Performance Theory; A.Citron / Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989-90 Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement; T.Yuichiro / ‘Deep Play, Dark Play’: Framing the Limit(less); J.Roach / Index

May 2011 312pp 216x138mm Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-24291-3

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Violence Performed Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict

Edited by Patrick anderson, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA and Jisha Menon, Assistant Professor of English, Stanford University, USA

‘Violence Performed is more than a collection of essays: it is a call to critical arms for all scholars in theatre and performance studies engaged with the

challenges of bearing witness to global violence...These are the urgent questions at the heart of this valuable book.’- Kim Solga, Associate Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Contents: Acknowledgements / Introduction: Violence Performed; P.Anderson & J.Menon / Sublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter; L.Wade / The ‘Outsider’ Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre; S.Haedicke / The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda; L.Edmondson / The Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic; E.Kent / Decorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching; B.Lewis / Sacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence; M.K.Dahl / Violence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy; M.Dodd / Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; C.Cole / ‘To Lie Down to Death for Days’: The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003; P.Anderson / The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-global Imagination; K.Katrak / Violent Reformations: Image Theatre with Youth in Conflict Regions; S.A.Kuftinec / Narrative Representations of Violence and Terrorism: Tragedy and History in Hanoch Levin’s Theatre; F.Rokem / Not So Innocent Landscapes: Remembrance, Representation, and the Disappeared; M.Phelan / Directing Tourists and Escapees: North Korea’s Two Conflicting National Performances; S-Y.Kim / Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold; J.McKenzie / Performance Complexes: Abu Ghraib and the Culture of Neoliberalism; T.Perucci / Afterword: ‘In the Valley of the Shadow of Death’: The Photographs of Abu Ghraib; P.Phelan / Index

April 2011 412pp 216x138mm 11 b/w photographsPaperback £19.99 978-0-230-29839-2http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=281064

Performing European Memories Milija Gluhovic, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance , University of Warwick, UK

Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Müller and Artur Żmijewski.

Contents: Acknowledgements / Theorising Europe and Recollection / History, Memory, and Trauma in Heiner Müller’s Theatre / Contested Pasts and the Ethics of Remembrance in Tadeusz Kantor’s “Theatre of Death” and Andrzej Wajda’s Katyń / Postmemory, Vulnerability, Affect / European Memory? / Notes / Bibliography

January 2012 240pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-29790-6


Performing Exile, Performing Self Drama, Theatre, Film

Yana Meerzon, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa, Canada

This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.

Contents: Acknowledgements / Prologue: Performing Exile – Performing Self / PART I: PERFORMING LANGUAGE / Heteroglossia of a Castaway / The Land of a Divide / PART II: PERFORMING IMAGE / The Dream of a Floating Island / The Quest for Exilic Anthropophany / PART III: PERFORMING MEDIAPerforming Media / The Prodigal Son / Framing the Ancestry / Epilogue: On the Lessons of Exilic Theatre, Performing Exile, Performing Self / Bibliography / Index

February 2012 240pp 276x216mm c.10 b/w in-text illustrations/photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-22153-6


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Neoliberalism and Global Theatres Performance Permutations

Edited by Lara D. Nielsen, Assistant Professor, Macalester College, USA and Patricia Ybarra, Assistant Professor, Brown University, USA

How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce theatre and performance for global audiences.

Contents: Introduction; L.D.Nielsen & P.Ybarra / PART I: INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES / Irreal Entries; L.Nielsen / Nintendo Museum: Intercultural Pedagogy, Neoliberal Citizenship, and a Theatre without Actors; M.Werry / Bentin Archaeologies of Empire: Colonial Hollywood and the Neoliberal Academy; S.Calderon / Neoliberalism and the Global University; E.B.Lim / Branding the Revolution: Hair Redux; D.Savran / PART II: MODES OF TRANSMISSION / I Feel For You; P.Anderson / Staging a Moving Map in Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis’ Stuck Elevator; K.Shimakawa / Fighting for a Future in a Free Trade World; P.Ybarra / Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Dance; T.Defrantz / PART III: FORMAL ECONOMIES / Model Dissent: Lu'u Quang Vũ and the Melodramatic Performance of Renovation in Post-War Vietnam; K.T.Ngyuen / Representational Practices and Real Abstractionsin Early Eighteenth-Century London; M.Kobialka / The Gift of the New Orleans Second Line; M.Olsen / Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy as Neoliberal Kaleidoscope; C.Cole / PART IV: SITES OF ARTICULATION / Teatro Visión and the Limits of Chicano Politics in Neoliberal Space; J.Rossini / Repairing Teatro Oficina Perdiz; N.Tenenblat / Palimpsestic City: Nostalgia and Adaptation in Neoliberal Bangalore; J.Menon / Desiring the Stage: The Interplay of Mobility and Resistance; D.Larasati / The Future of Water: Environmental Theatre Experiences Urban Space; M.Joseph / Index

February 2012 264pp 216x138mm 10 in-text, b/w illustrationsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-27831-8


Performance, Politics and Activism

Edited by Peter Lichtenfels, University of California, USA and John rouse, University of California, San Diego, USA

Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / PART I: EXPANDING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE / The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916-2011; J.Plastow / For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival; S-Y. Kim / Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World; M.Adejunmobi / Peter Sellars’s Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays; P.Lichtenfels / The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless; A.Read / PART II: DISTURBING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE / ‘Asking, We Walk’; S.Kelly / From Site-Specific to Locative Arts: Placing Artistic Gestures in Transnational Context; M.Fuentes / Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness; P.Anderson / Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre – Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger; L.Hunter / Glocalqueer Pink Activism; E-B.Lim / The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir; S.Morton / The Incalculable Weight of Small Numbers: Hunters, Land Use and the Poplar River First Nation Proposal for a World Heritage Site; P.Kulchyski & A.Pawlowska / PART III: CRITIQUING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE / Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability; S.Jackson / Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance; J.Rossini / Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy; F.Wilderson III / Index

March 2012 240pp 216x138mm c.10 b/w, in-text illustrationsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-27856-1


Acoustic Interculturalism Listening to Performance

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Singapore

Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound’s performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing – an awareness of how sound shapes the intercultural experience.

Contents: Acknowledgements / Introduction: The Intercultural Topography and An Acoustic Interculturalism / The Performativity of Sound and the Soundscapes of Culture / Acoustic Mimesis: Ethical Cadence and Sonic Violence in Tambours Sur La Digue / (Echo)Locating Other-Shakespeares: An Aesthetics of Pop & the Ear of the Other / Listening In/To Asia: Ong Keng Sen’s Desdemona and the Polyphonies of Asia / ‘If Music Be The Food Of Love’ / Conclusion: After Authenticity: Naming the Intercultural / Bibliography / Index

March 2012 240pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-35416-6


Space, Performance, Utopia

Silvija Jestrovic, Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy, University of Warwick, UK

May 2012 240pp 216x138mm c.20 in-text, b/w illustrationsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-29266-6


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Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism Thinking the Political Anew

Maurya Wickstrom, Associate Professor of Theatre, Graduate Center/College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA

From the refugee camps in Palestine to the halting sites of the Irish Travellers, this book articulates performance using new theory drawn from contemporary philosophy. It explores a new politics that soars across the blockades, physical and imaginative, which a global network of neoliberalism sets up in order to reduce what it is to live.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgments / Introduction / Making the Space of the New Present: Palestine/Theatre and the TEAM’s Architecting / Efficacy, Sufferers, Camps and Redistribution: Theatre for Development and The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City / Nomads: Irish Traveller Theatre, Housing, and Appearance / Exhibited Bodies, Mr. Biopower, and the Inhuman: A Brief Continuation and a Coda / Bibliography / Index

January 2012 256pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-24721-5


Performance and Cosmopolitics Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia

helen Gilbert, Professor of Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Jacqueline Lo, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, Australian National University, Australia

June 2009 256pp 216x138mmHardback £55.00 978-0-230-00340-8Paperback £19.99 978-0-230-23402-4

Winner of the australasian association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies rob Jordan prize

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary awards Gleebooks Prize and Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship.

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Contemporary Indian Dance New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora

Ketu h. Katrak, Professor of Humanities, University of California, USA

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers’ creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural

stereotypes, and represents social issues.August 2011 288pp 216x138mm 38 b/w photographsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-27855-4


The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and TunisiaPerformance Traditions of the Maghreb

Khalid amine, Senior Professor of Performance Studies, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco and Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, Graduate Centre, CUNY, USA

Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain especially neglected, a problem that this book addresses.November 2011 264pp 216x138mm 20 b/w photographs Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-27874-5


Worlding Dance

Edited by Susan Leigh Foster, Distinguished Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, USA

‘The range of articles makes Foster’s collection both methodologically and thematically an invaluable resource far beyond dance, and relevant for anyone in performance and theatre studies wrestling

with the complexity of writing history from a global perspective.’ - Sabine Sörgel, Aberystwyth University, UK, Theatre Research International

What world has been constructed for dancing through the term ‘world dance’? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book, now in paperback, makes new epistemological space for the analysis of the world’s dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

Contents: Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Worlding Dance - An Introduction; S.L.Foster / The Power of Classification; L.Hammergren / Mobilizing (in) the Archive: Santee Smith’s Kaha:wi; J.S.Murphy / A ‘Material’-ist Reading of the Bharata Natyam Dancing Body: The Possibility of the ‘Unruly Spectator’; P.Srinivasan / Race-ing Choreographic Copyright; A.Kraut / Choreographies and Choreographers; S.L.Foster / Red-stained Feet: Probing the Ground On Which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal; A.Chatterjea / Artistic Utopias: Michio Ito and the Trope of the International; Y.Wong / Worlding Dance and Dancing Out There in the World; M.E.Savigliano / Works Cited / Index

April 2011 224pp 216x138mm c.30 b/w illustrationsPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-29838-5

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Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization Performing Zero

Daphne P. Lei, Associate Professor and Director of Multicultural Spring, Universiy of California-Irvine, USA

‘Alternative Chinese Opera is a marvellous piece of theatre scholarship and critical commentary on the contemporary performances of major genres of traditional Chinese opera around the Pacific Rim.’ - Wing Chung Ng, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at San Antonio, USAFebruary 2011 248pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-24565-5

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Community Theatre and AIDS Ola Johansson, Lecturer, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden

Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people’s shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comparable sites in Africa.January 2011 200pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-20515-4


Theatre, Intimacy and Engagement The Last Human Venue

alan read, Professor of Theatre, King’s College, University of London, UK

December 2007 344pp 216x138mm Hardback £58.00 978-0-230-57261-4Paperback £18.99 978-0-230-23524-3

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Performing Otherness Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952

Matthew isaac Cohen, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism’s encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy.October 2010 304pp 216x138mm Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-22462-9


Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage Edited by Carol Martin, Associate Professor of Drama, New York University, USA


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Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre

Shannon Steen, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Race Theory and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA



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Staging and Performing Translation Text and Theatre Practice

Edited by roger Baines, Lecturer in French and Translation Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, Cristina Marinetti, Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Warwick, UK and Manuela Perteghella, Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation, London Metropolitan University, UK

This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre

features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.December 2010 296pp 216x138mm 1 b/w photograph and 3 figuresHardback £55.00 978-0-230-22819-1



The Fool in European Theatre Stages of Folly

Tim Prentki, Professor of Theatre for Development, University of Winchester, UK

‘...a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the serious side of clowning.’ - Ron Jenkins, Professor of Theatre, Wesleyan University, USA

Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh.December 2011 240pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-29159-1


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Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts

richard Wattenberg, Professor of Theatre Arts, Portland State University, USA

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that

original audiences could and did embrace. May 2011 280pp 216x138mmHardback £55.00 978-0-230-11144-8

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Performing Bodies in Pain Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

Marla Carlson, Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Georgia, USA




Staging the People Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project

elizabeth a. Osborne, Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies, Florida State University, USA

The Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal plan to fund theatre and other live artistic performances during the Great Depression, had the primary goal of employing out-of-work artists, writers, and directors, with the secondary aim of entertaining poor families and creating relevant art. These case studies explore the ties between the Federal Theatre Project and regional communities throughout the United States. May 2011 256pp 216x138mm 9pp illustrationsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-11331-2


Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891–1933

Valleri J. hohman, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the

beginning of the twentieth century.August 2011 222pp 216x138mm 10pp illustrationsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-11368-8


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Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

Kara reilly, Lecturer in Drama, Birmingham University, UK

The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm’s fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly

desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Reformation Iconoclasm / Descartes’ Mimetic Faculty / From Aristocrats to Autocrats: The Elite as Automata / Olympia’s Legacy / Death of the Automaton, Birth of the Robot Draft / Epilogue / Bibliography / Index

September 2011 232pp 216x138mm 19 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-23202-0


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Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter

Michael Y. Bennett, Assistant Professor of English in Drama, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin’s The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that ‘absurd’ plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre ‘movements’ of the twentieth century.March 2011 190pp 216x138mmHardback £52.00 978-0-230-11338-1

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Staging Modern American Life Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

Thomas Fahy, Director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of English, Long Island University, USA

Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary

studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimentalOctober 2011 192pp 216x138mm 4pp illustrationsHardback £52.00 978-0-230-11595-8


Shakespearean Neuroplay Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science

amy Cook, Assistant Professor of Theatre and History, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

‘This is a startlingly original and courageous exploration of cognitive blending theory and its usefulness for understanding the epistemological complexities of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in both text and performance.’ - F. Elizabeth Hart, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs and co-editor of Performance and Cognition October 2010 218pp 156mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-10547-8

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Cognition in the Globe Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre

evelyn B. Tribble, Professor of English, University of Otago, New Zealand

Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: How did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world.March 2011 216pp 234x156mmHardback £52.00 978-0-230-11085-4

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Street Scenes Late Medieval Acting and Performance

Sharon aronson-Lehavi, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University, Israel

March 2011 200pp 234x156mm Hardback £52.00 978-0-230-60665-4

The New Middle Ages Series Editor: Bonnie Wheeler

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The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies Tarrying with the Subjunctive

Edited by Paul Cefalu, Associate Professor, Department of English, Louisiana State University, USA and Bryan reynolds, Professor of Drama, University of California, USA

‘The contributors draw on current and emerging fields – cognitive science, the new formalism, political theology – to cast exciting new light on Renaissance texts.’ - Richard Halpern, Johns Hopkins University, USAFebruary 2011 344pp 216x138mm Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-23549-6 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=371052

Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558–1642 Edited by Jennifer a. Low, Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University and Nova Myhill, Associate Professor of English, New College of Florida, USA

March 2011 228pp 234x156mm Hardback £52.00 978-0-230-11064-9



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Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588–1611 Metaphor and National Identity

Jane Pettegree, Teaching Assistant, University of St Andrews, UK

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.April 2011 248pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-29333-5

Early Modern Literature in HistorySeries Editors: Cedric C. Brown and Andrew Hadfield

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Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama Unchaste Signification

Maria Franziska Fahey, Chair of English, Friends Seminary, USA

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part I, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest.September 2011 224pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-25187-8

Early Modern Literature in HistorySeries Editors: Cedric C. Brown and Andrew Hadfield


Knowing Shakespeare Senses, Embodiment and Cognition

Edited by Lowell Gallagher, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, USA and Shankar raman, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

A collection of essays on the ways the senses ‘speak’ on Shakespeare’s stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare’s investment in staging the senses.October 2010 280pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-27561-4

Palgrave Shakespeare StudiesSeries Editor: Michael DobsonCo Founding Editor: Gail Kern Paster

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Shakespeare’s Great Stage of Fools

robert h. Bell, Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English, Williams College, USA

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare’s fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare’s theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and

mysteries of some of Shakespeare’s most vibrant and often vexing figures.September 2011 208pp 216x138mm 10pp illustrationsHardback £52.00 978-0-230-11511-8


The Regal Theater and Black Culture

Clovis e. Semmes, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology and Director of Black Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, Eastern Michigan University, USA

'This magnificent volume should be indispensable reading for students of African- American and American culture.' - Sterling Stuckey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of California at Riverside, USAApril 2011 304pp 234x156mmPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-11315-2

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Acting Presidents 100 Years of Plays about the Presidency

Bruce e. altschuler, Professor of Political Science, SUNY Oswego, USA

This book seeks to fill a major gap in the literature about fictional representations of presidents by studying more than forty plays, written since 1900, which have had prominent productions on or off-Broadway or in another major city.

January 2011 208pp 234x156mm 2pp illustrationsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-11017-5

The Evolving American PresidencySeries Editor: Michael A. Genovese

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The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works The Complete Works

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Jonathan Bate, University of Warwick, UK and eric rasmussen, University of Nevada, USA

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this fresh new Complete Works combines the very latest scholarship with elegant writing and design. It boasts a wealth of features that will

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The book describes new and emergent forms, presenting an up-to-date account of the evolving relationship between technology and aesthetics in contemporary performance culture.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Introduction: From Slide-Shows to Powerpoint / Defining Medium? / The Evolution of Multimedia Performance / The Theatre of Images Revisited / Liveness and Re-Mediation / Framing Media Theory for Performance Studies / Dance + Virtual = Multimedia Performance / Immersion / Forms of Interactivity in Performative Spaces / Digital Aesthetics and Embodied Perception: Towards a Posthuman Performance / Conclusion: Posthuman Corporealities and Augmented Spaces / Bibliography / Index

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Dominic hingorani, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Performing Arts, University of East London, UK

An introduction to British Asian theatre over the past thirty years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asian theatre companies (including Tara Arts, Tamasha, Kali Theatre), providing students with the theoretical tools

and practical examples with which to study the performance practices of British Asian theatre.

Contents: Introduction: British Asian Theatre on the Map / Tara Arts 1977-1984: Creating a British Asian Theatre / Tara Arts 1984-1996: Creating a ‘Binglish’ Theatre / Tamasha Theatre Company 1989: Authenticity and Adaptation / Tamasha Theatre Company 1989 - East is East: From Kitchen Sink to Bollywood / Kali Theatre Company 1990-2007: Producing British Asian Women Playwrights / Tara Arts 1997-2007: Mapping a ‘Binglish’ Diaspora / New Writers from 1977: Kureishi, Bancil, Bhatti and Khan-Din / Conclusion / Bibliography

October 2010 232pp 216x138mm 21 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-21138-4Paperback £16.99 978-0-230-21139-1


Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s

Edited by rebecca D’Monté, University of the West of England, UK and Graham Saunders, University of Reading, UK

November 2007 264pp 216x138mm Hardback £52.50 978-1-4039-8812-6 Paperback £18.99 978-1-4039-8813-3


Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre Staging the Victorians

Benjamin Poore, Lecturer, University of York, UK

The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicization of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond, Edgar, and Churchill, linking theatre to the

wider culture at large.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgements / Introduction: Staging the Victorians / Staging the Bad Old Days / Staging the Empire / Staging Dickens / Staging Life Stories / Staging the Brontës / Staging Hauntings / Restaging the Victorians / Notes / Bibliography

December 2011 248pp 216x138mm 4 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-29889-7


Feeling Theatre

Martin Welton, Lecturer in Performance, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing.

Contents: Preface / Introduction / Shows of Feeling / Feeling Your Way in the Dark / The Sensuousness of Silence / Somewhere, Somehow / Bringing the Weather Indoors / Afterword / Notes / Bibliography / Index

November 2011 232pp 216x138mm 4 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-24563-1


Performance Affects Applied Theatre and the End of Effect

James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, University of Manchester, UK

‘Drawing on his own workshops in Sri Lanka in 2000 and research in Rwandan prisons, Thompson builds a moving and often disturbing picture of how theatre can be used for political ends.’ - What’s On Stage.com

‘Performance Affects...provides a rich, complex, and theoretically aligned set of ideas and contributions to discourses of theatre performance in political contexts.’ - Sheila Preston, New Theatre Quarterly ‘His study is theoretically eclectic, and yet refreshingly non-presumptuous...Thompson makes a consistent, sincere and timely argument.’ - Sruti Bala, Theatre Research International ‘This book is bold, admirable, moving, lucid and persuasive, and its argument for an affective turn in the practice and scholarship of Applied Theatre is already, fundamentally, changing them.’ - Jen Harvie, Research in Drama Education

This book, now in paperback and with a new preface, explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role.November 2011 216pp 216x138mm c.10 b/w in-text illustrations/photographsPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-35432-6





(Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance

Josephine Machon, Lecturer in Theatre, Brunel University, UK

‘The diversity of voices [in part 2 of the book] is a real strength...[and] provides a rich array of primary source material for all readers from undergraduates to professors...’ - Patrick Duggan, New Theatre Quarterly

This paperback, now with a new Preface, identifies the practice of ‘(syn)aesthetics’ in artistic style and audience response, helping to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Preface to the Paperback Edition / Acknowledgements / Notes on Interview Contributors / Introduction: Redefining Visceral Performance / PART I / Defining (Syn)aesthetics / Connecting Theories / (Syn)aesthetics in Practice / PART II / Introduction: A (Syn)aesthetic Exchange / Felix Barrett & Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk: In the Prae-sens of Body and Space: The (Syn)aesthetics of Site-Sympathetic Work / Lizzie Clachan & David Rosenberg of Shunt Theatre Collective: A Door into Another World: The Audience and Hybridity / Akram Khan: The Mathematics of Sensation: The Body as Site/Sight/Cite and Source / Marisa Carnesky: Trapping the Audience in the Fantasy: Instinct, the Body and the Magic of the Experiential / Naomi Wallace & Kwame Kwei-Armah: Desire, the Body and Transgressive Acts of Playwriting: On Writing and Directing Things of Dry Hours / Linda Bassett: Bypassing the Logical: Performing Churchill’s Far Away / Jo McInnes: A Text That Demands to be Played With: Performing Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis / Graeae’s Jenny Sealey & Playwright Glyn Cannon: Seeing Words and (Dis)comfort Zones: The Fusion of Bodies, Text and Technology in On Blindness / Sara Giddens & Simon Jones of Bodies In Flight: The In-betweens, Where Flesh Utters and Words Move: On Flesh, Text, Space and Technologies / Leslie Hill & Helen Paris of Curious: Embodied Intimacies: On (the) Scent, Memory and the Visceral-Virtual / Bibliography / Index




Digital Practices Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology

Susan Broadhurst, Professor in Performance and Technology, Brunel University, UK

This book, now in paperback with a new preface, examines art and performance practices emerging from a more technological world. They are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and

analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics.May 2011 232pp 216x138mm 20 b/w illustrationsPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-29364-9

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Performance and TechnologyPractices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

Edited by Susan Broadhurst, Professor in Performance and Technology and Josephine Machon, Lecturer in Theatre, both at Brunel University, UK

‘...an enjoyable, well-researched, inspiring book that everybody with a keen interest in performance and technology should consider reading.’ - Iryna Kuksa, New Theatre Quarterly May 2011 232pp 216x138mm 20 b/w in-text photographs/line illustrationsPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-29365-6

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Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance

Edited by Susan Broadhurst, Professor in Performance and Technology and Josephine Machon, Lecturer in Theatre, both at Brunel University, UK

'A challenging, occasionally irritating, but always worthwhile entry in a growing critical field. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.’ - R. Remshardt, University of Florida, USAJanuary 2010 240pp 216x138mm 27 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-22025-6

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Biographical Theatre Re-Presenting Real People?

ursula Canton, Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

‘This book offers a fascinating complement to the raft of recent publications on documentary theatre and theatres of actuality...Through her analysis of a variety of theatrical case studies, Ursula Canton builds a strong argument for

the importance of drama based on real lives.’ - Dr Chris Megson, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, UKMay 2011 224pp 216x138mm 4 b/w photographs and 1 diagramHardback £50.00 978-0-230-25277-6






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The Spaces of Irish Drama Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays

helen heusner Lojek, formerly Professor Emeritus of English and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, USA

Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of

space.October 2011 192pp 216x138mmHardback £52.00 978-0-230-11523-1


Experimental Irish Theatre After Yeats

ian Walsh, Lecturer in Drama, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic ‘peasant’ drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalized playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of contemporary Irish and international drama.March 2012 240pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-30095-8


Howard Barker: Politics and Desire An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87

David ian rabey, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Aberystwyth, UK

January 2009 320pp 216x138mmPaperback £19.99 978-0-230-57740-4


Samuel Beckett and Testimony

David houston Jones, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Exeter, UK

‘An extremely well-written and cogently argued work on an area that has remained underexplored in Beckett studies.’ - Shane Weller, University of Kent, UK

This is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett and testimony. It offers new readings of the problem of unspeakability in Beckett in relation to testimonial expression and the problems of knowledge which arise in recent theoretical conceptions of testimony and the archive.February 2011 216pp 216x138mm 3 b/w illustrationsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-27576-8


Beckett’s Art of Absence Rethinking the Void

Ciaran ross, Professor of Twentieth-Century English and Irish Literature, University of Strasbourg, France

Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett’s aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical challenge to accepted viewpoints of Beckett’s negative status, not only within psychoanalytic literary criticism, but within Beckett criticism at large.February 2011 248pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-57518-9


Brian Friel Theatre and Politics

anthony roche, Associate Professor, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

‘Tony Roche has contributed so much to contemporary understanding of Irish drama and theatre, and this volume adds substantially to these contributions. For scholars of Irish

letters, reading Brian Friel Theatre and Politics will become both an immense pleasure and a necessity.’ - Stephen Watt, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Indiana University, USA

Friel is widely recognized as Ireland’s leading playwright but through the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has also made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive in the National Library of Ireland to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed.May 2011 248pp 216x138mmHardback £55.00 978-0-230-57647-6


Critical Thinking Skills

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Contemporary Irish Drama 2nd edition

anthony roche, Associate Professor, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

‘Much has changed in Irish theatre in the decade and a half since anthony Roche’s peerless survey of contemporary Irish Drama was first published...The appearance of this revised and updated second edition is a welcome opportunity to reacquaint oneself with one of the seminal books on the subject in recent years...Chapters on Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy and Tom Murphy add considerable ballast to an intelligently written, well argued and essential book on a still vital tradition.' - Michael Quinn, The Stage July 2009 304 pp 216x138mmHardback £63.00 978-0-230-21978-6Paperback £18.99 978-0-230-21979-3


Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities Performing Contradictions

aidan O’Malley, Visiting Lecturer in Irish Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia

This book examines Field Day’s cultural intervention into the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this project were performances, in a variety of different forms and registers, of an

ethics of translation that disrupted notions of Irish identity.April 2011 264pp 216x138mmHardback £55.00 978-0-230-22969-3


Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina

Brenda Werth, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, American University, USA

Since Argentina’s transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina’s return to democracy and

makes a case for performance’s transformative power.November 2010 272pp 234x156mmHardback £52.50 978-0-230-10434-1



August Wilson and Black Aesthetics

Edited by Dana a. Williams, and Sandra G. Shannon, both Professors of African American Literature, Howard University, USA

This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson’s work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson’s politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black

aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson’s legacy since his death in 2005.May 2011 240pp 234x156mmPaperback £16.00 978-0-230-11301-5


PerFOrMaNCe iNTerVeNTiONS

Published in association with FIRT/IFTR Series Editors: Elaine Aston and Bryan Reynolds

Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre

Brian Singleton, Associate Professor of Drama Studies and Head of School, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Irish theatre and its histories appear to be dominated by men and their actions. This book’s socially and culturally contextualized analysis of performance over the last two decades, however reveals masculinities that are anything but

hegemonic, played out in theatres and other arenas of performance all over Ireland.November 2010 240pp 216x138mm 14 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-22280-9



Performance, Politics and the War on Terror

Sara Brady, Lecturer in Drama Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.January 2012 240pp 216x138mmHardback £50.00 978-0-230-23490-1






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Refugees, Theatre and Crisis Performing Global Identities

Alison Jeffers, Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance, University of Manchester, UK

‘Scholarly and incisive, the power of this book lies is in Alison Jeffers political clarity, her empathetic understanding of why refugees are compelled to make theatre and her vivid analysis of how theatre-makers have told

refugees’ stories on the professional stage...This remarkable book is compelling reading for anyone who cares about human rights and theatre.’ - Helen Nicholson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK‘...a wonderful read and an inspiration for students, teachers and practitioners interested in those moments when theatre seems to illuminate unexpected contours of these crisis-dominated times.’ - Professor James Thompson, University of Manchester, UK

Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the ‘refugee crisis’ has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand.

Contents: List of Illustrations / Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction: Stories, Words and Points of View / Refugees, Crisis and Bureaucratic Performance / Hosts and Guests: National Performance and the Ethics of Hospitality / Taking up Space and Making a Noise: Minority Performances of Activism / ‘We With Them and Them With Us’: Diverse Cultural Performances / Conclusion: Face to Face or Shoulder to Shoulder? / Notes / References / Index

November 2011 224pp 216x138mm 9 b/w photographsHardback £50.00 978-0-230-24747-5


Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present

Edited by Alison Forsyth, Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Aberystwyth, UK and Chris Megson, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

‘Get Real is an extremely timely and valuable collection of essays...It is a must-read text for arts/humanities academics and students, and performance

practitioners.’ - Kerrie Schaefer, Studies in Theatre and Performance

Contents: Preface to the Paperback Edition / Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Introduction; A.Forsyth & C.Megson / The Promise of Documentary; J.Reinelt / Mediating the 1930s: Documentary and Politics in Theatre Union’s Last Edition (1940); B.Harker / History in the Driving Seat: Unity Theatre and the Embrace of the ‘Real’; C.Chambers / The Documentary Body: Theatre Workshop to Banner Theatre; A.Filewod / Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon, and Israel; C.Martin / Looking for Esrafil: Witnessing ‘Refugitive’ Bodies in I’ve got something to show you; A.Jeffers / Remembering the Past, ‘Growing Ourselves a Future’: Community-Based Documentary Theatre in the East Palo Alto Project; L.Smith / Ngapartji Ngapartji: Telling Aboriginal Australian Stories; M.Casey / Performing Trauma: Race Riots and Beyond in the Work of Anna Deavere Smith; A.Forsyth / History, Memory and Trauma in the Documentary Plays of Emily Mann; A.Favorini / When Heroes Fall: Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth; N.P.Highberg / The Performance of Truth and Justice in Northern Ireland: The Case of Bloody Sunday; C-A.Upton / Half the Picture: ‘A Certain Frisson’ at the Tricycle Theatre; C.Megson / Verbatim Theatre in South Africa: ‘Living History in a Person’s Performance’; Y.Hutchison / The ‘Broken Tradition’ of Documentary Theatre and its Continued Powers of Endurance; D.Paget / Index




Contemporary French Theatre and Performance

Edited by Clare Finburgh, Lecturer in Modern Drama, University of Essex, UK and Carl Lavery, Lecturer in Theatre Studies, Lancaster University, UK

This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France.

May 2011 264pp 216x138mm Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-58051-0



Visuality in the Theatre The Locus of Looking

Maaike Bleeker, Professor of Theatre and Dance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

This book, now in paperback, examines 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.April 2011 248pp 216x138mm Paperback £18.99 978-0-230-30084-2

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Performance and the City

Edited by D.J. hopkins, Head of Theatre Studies, Shelley Orr, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, both at San Diego State University, USA and Kim Solga, Assistant Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, USA

‘This is cutting-edge work that provides up-to-the-minute models for those who are

continually searching for work that will engage their imaginations and provide springboards for their own thinking.’ - Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan, USA ‘Solga’s project here is fascinating for what it can tell us about the contemporary performance of early plays and about the negotiations that must still go on when presenting their scenes of violence against women.’ - Karen Britland, Theatre SurveyMay 2011 288pp 216x138mm 38 b/w photographs and 1 b/w illustrationPaperback £18.99 978-0-230-30049-1


Cyborg Theatre Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance

Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Senior Lecturer, Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Roehampton University, UK

This book articulates the first theoretical context for a ‘cyborg theatre,’ metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. April 2011 264pp 216x138mm 14 b/w photographs and 2 figuresHardback £50.00 978-0-230-24583-9



Performance in the Borderlands Edited by ramón h. rivera-Servera, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and harvey Young, Assistant Professor in Theatre, both at Northwestern University, USA

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.November 2010 296pp 216x138mmHardback £55.00 978-0-230-57460-1



Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange Vectors of the Radical

Edited by Mike Sell, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

November 2010 240pp 216x138mm Hardback £50.00 978-0-230-24134-3



Shakespeare in Transition Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic

Marcela Kostihová, Assistant Professor of English, Hamline University, USA




Women in Irish Drama A Century of Authorship and Representation

Edited by Melissa Sihra, Lecturer in Drama, Trinity College, Dublin, Repubic of Ireland

March 2007 264pp 216x138mm 9 b/w in-text illustrationsHardback £55.00 978-0-230-00647-8Paperback £19.99 978-0-230-57791-6

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Performance and Place Edited by Leslie hill, Associate Artist of Artsadmin, London, UK and helen Paris, Lecturer, Department of Performing Arts, Brunel University, UK

‘...a timely, and at times, poetic engagement with an elusive sense of place.’ - Michael Pinchbeck, PlatformApril 2006 296pp 216x138mmHardback £74.00 978-1-4039-4503-7Paperback £20.99 978-1-4039-4504-4

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A Acoustic Interculturalism Tan 16

Acting Presidents Altschuler 21

Acting Professionally Cohen Calleri 7

The Actor in Costume Monks 10

Ageing Gender Embodiment and Dance Schwaiger 13

Allegue Jones Kershaw Practice-as-Research 11

All’s Well that End’s Well Shakespeare 22

Alrutz Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice 5

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization Lei 18

Altschuler Acting Presidents 21

Amans An Introduction to Community Dance Practice 13

Amine Carlson The Theatres of Morocco Algeria and Tunsia 17

An Actor’s Craft Krasner 6

An Introduction to Community Dance Practice Amans 13

Anderson Menon Violence Performed 15

Anderson Theatre and Photography 2

Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 22

Applied Drama Nicholson 12

Aronson-Lehavi Street Scenes 20

As You Like It Shakespeare 22

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics Shannon Williams 27

Autobiography and Performance Heddon 12

Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History Reilly 19

Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange Sell 29

B Baines Marinetti Perteghella Staging and Performing Translation 18

Baugh Theatre Performance and Technology 12

Bayly A Pathognomy of Performance 8

Beckett’s Art of Absence Ross 26

Belfiore Bennett The Social Impact of the Arts 8

Bell Shakespeare’s Great Stage of Fools 21

Bennett Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd 20

Bennett Theatre & Museums 2

Biographical Theatre Canton 25

Bleeker Visuality in the Theatre 28

Brady Performance Politics and the War on Terror 27

Brian Friel Roche 26

British Asian Theatre Hingorani 24

Broadhurst Digital Practices 25

Broadhurst Machon Performance and Technology 25

Broadhurst Machon Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies 25

Brown Sound: A Reader in Theatre Practice 9

Buckland Society Dancing 13

C Canton Biographical Theatre 25

Cantrell Luckhurst Playing For Real 6

Carlson Performing Bodies in Pain 19

Case Feminism and Theatre 14

Case Feminist and Queer Performance 14

Cefalu Reynolds The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies 20

The Chemistry of the Theatre Limon 11

Cognition in the Globe Tribble 20

Cohen Calleri Acting Professionally 7

Cohen Performing Otherness 18

Cohen Working Together in Theatre 7

The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare 22

Community Theatre and AIDS Johansson 18

Conroy Theatre and The Body 4

Contemporary French Theatre and Performance Finburgh Lavery 28

Contemporary Indian Dance Katrak 17

Contemporary Irish Drama Roche 27

Cook Shakespearean Neuroplay 20

Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s D’Monté Saunders 24

Coriolanus Shakespeare 22

Cyborg Theatre Parker-Starbuck 29

Cymbeline Shakespeare 22

D D’Monté Saunders Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s 24

Dancing Communities Hamera 14

Dancing Naturally Fensham Carter 13

Dancing on the Canon Dodds 13

Devising in Process Mermikides Smart 11

Devising Performance Heddon Milling 12

Digital Practices Broadhurst 25

Disability Culture and Community Performance Kuppers 9

Dodds Dancing on the Canon 13

Dolan Theatre and Sexuality 3

Dramaturgy and Performance Turner Behrndt 12

Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage Martin 18

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Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway Wattenberg 19

Engaging Audiences McConachie 7

Experimental Irish Theatre Walsh 26

F Fahey Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama 21

Fahy Staging Modern American Life 20

Feeling Theatre Welton 24

Feminism and Theatre Case 14

Feminist and Queer Performance Case 14

Feminist Futures? Harris Aston 14

Fensham Carter Dancing Naturally 13

Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities O’Malley 27

Finburgh Lavery Contemporary French Theatre and Performance 28

Findlay Much Ado About Nothing 23

Fliotsos Interpreting the Play Script 6

The Fool in European Theatre Prentki 18

Foreign and Native on the English Stage 1588-1611 Pettegree 21

Forsyth Megson Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present 28

Foster Worlding Dance 17

Francis Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice 8

Freshwater Theatre and Audience 4

G Gallagher Raman Knowing Shakespeare 21

Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present Forsyth Megson 28

Giesekam Staging the Screen 12

Gilbert Lo Performance and Cosmopolitics 17

Gluhovic Performing European Memories 15

H Hamera Dancing Communities 14

Hamlet Shakespeare 22

Hampton-Reeves Othello 23

Harding Rosenthal The Rise of Performance Studies 15

Harris Aston Feminist Futures? 14

Harvie Theatre and the City 4

Heddon Autobiography and Performance 12

Heddon Milling Devising Performance 12

Henry IV Part I Shakespeare 22

Henry IV Part II Shakespeare 22

Henry V Shakespeare 22

Heritage Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre Poore 24

Hill Paris Performance and Place 29

Hingorani British Asian Theatre 24

Hohman Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America 1891-1933 19

Holdsworth Theatre and Nation 2

Hopkins Orr Solga Performance and the City 29

Howard Barker: Politics and Desire Rabey 26

Hurley Theatre and Feeling 3

I Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama 1558-1642 Low Myhill 20

Interpreting the Play Script Fliotsos 6

J Jeffers Refugees Theatre and Crisis 28

Jestrovic Space Performance Utopia 16

Johansson Community Theatre and AIDS 18

Johnson Theatre & the Visual 3

Jones Samuel Beckett and Testimony 26

Julius Caesar Shakespeare 22

K Katrak Contemporary Indian Dance 17

Kelleher Theatre and Politics 4

Key Concepts in Drama and Performance Pickering 7

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‘The publication opens up a relevant perspective for theatre and performance studies as well as allied fields. It emerges at a time when the city, and performance in the city, offer particularly charged experiences.’ — Theatre Research International

‘Since its publication in 2009, Performance and the City and its expertly curated and introduced essays have quickly circulated and now appear on the reading lists of students and scholars interested in the rapidly growing fields of history and theory of urban theatre and performance. The collection's potential influence extends beyond that for traditional theatre and performance studies; each essay intervenes in larger conversations regarding globalization and urban capital production. The result is that all three editors are today identified as leading figures in the study of the city and urban performance.’ — Jean Graham-Jones, Professor in Theatre, City University of New York, USA

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Urban Studies has long understood the city as a ‘text’. What would it mean now to rethink that metaphor? In answer to that question, Performance and the City, now in paperback and with a new preface by Susan Bennett, imagines civic spaces built on, and through, theatre and performance of all kinds. Featuring essays by Marla Carlson, Jen Harvie, D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr, Ric Knowles, Laura Levin, Michael McKinnie, Rebecca Rugg, Rebecca Schneider, Marlis Schweitzer, Kim Solga, Joanne Tompkins, and Klaus van den Berg, as well as an Afterword by Barbara Hodgdon, Performance and the City explores an interdisciplinary range of topics, including: theatre and urban policy development; architecture, trauma, and memory; urban performance history; site-specific performance and urban politics; sexuality and nationality in urban performance; and environmental performance theory.

D. J. Hopkins is Head of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare’s London. Shelley Orr teaches in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. She heads the dramaturgy area at SDSU and is past president of the international association Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

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