General

Volume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society explores the fundamental contribution that artistic and cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfulness, in addition to...

Providing a new way of thinking about industrialism and its history through the lens of one of Britain's most recognisable heritage brands, Catherine Hindson explores the creativity that was at the heart of Cadbury's operation in the early twentieth...

Scenic automation has earned a reputation of being complicated and cantankerous, a craft best left to the elite of our industry. Not sure of the difference between a VFD, PLC, or PID? If you have dreamed of choreographing scene changes with computerized...

Taking as its point of departure the complex question about whether Surrealist theatre exists, this book re-examines the much misunderstood artistic medium of theatre within Surrealism, especially when compared to poetry and painting. This study...

Though he is one of the undisputed giants of English literature, Ben Jonson is known to most people only as the author of one or two masterly plays which regularly appear in the drama repertory. He is much less well-known for his whole oeuvre, which...

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson's vision as a whole. The author points to the inner connections that make...

This edited collection gathers UK and international artists, academics, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of contemporary performance, dance, and live art to offer creative-critical responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their...

Covering every phase of a theatrical production, this fourth edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances. The book discusses the early evolution of...

A guide to the contemporary London stage as well as an argument about its future, the book walks readers through the city’s performance spaces following the Brexit vote.Austerity-era London theatre is suffused with the belief that private ownership...

Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent activist, embodied and collective natures. It works across multiple spheres to help readers understand how to deploy...

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre...

Contains step-by-step, easy to follow instructions with clear diagrams that enable the reader to draft a series of historically accurate patterns, that incorporate both imperial and metric systems.This book will appeal to students and instructors in...

- Written in an engaging voice by an Emmy Award-winning designer - Illustrated with full-color images and numerous diagrams that break down hard-to-grasp concepts - Supporting website features additional articles and information, downloadable images and...

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that...

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season.This book is the first to comprehensively examine the musicals that...

This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This...

Digital art practitioners work under the constant threat of a medium – the digital – that objectifies the self and depersonalises artistic identities. If digital technology is a pharmakon in that it can be either cure or poison, with regard to digital...

Written with the same warmth, liveliness and ability to re-create reality that made Stanislavski a great actor, his autobiography tells of his childhood in the world of Moscow's wealthy merchants, his successes and failures as an amateur actor, how he...

This book brings together critical essays on the role of the actor-author, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present. It surveys the works of Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Bene, and casts light on a tradition which continues into Neapolitan and...

Teaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators clarifies the teaching process for Costume Design and Costume Rendering courses and offers a clear and tested path to success in the classroom.Drawing on the...

Through a series of arresting vignettes and a collection of nameless characters, Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century. The play asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change...

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences.Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied...

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.This volume looks at our diverse and amalgamative theatrical...

This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton's Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel's...

Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things, we are put in the situation of being both actor and spectator, of being part of the work of art while also being the audience who...

• Takes the unique approach of analyzing performances and design choices of theatrical witches.• Following theatre critic Helen Shaw’s provocation that, for theatre to reach beyond its typical audience, critics must engage with popular culture so that...

• ‘Toward A Just Pedagogy Of Performance’ is the only project of its kind focusing on historical narratives and curriculum/ programming design. • This collection combines classroom expertise, experience in artistic practice, and an investment in theory...

• ‘Toward A Just Pedagogy Of Performance’ is the only project of its kind focusing on historical narratives and curriculum/ programming design. • This collection combines classroom expertise, experience in artistic practice, and an investment in theory...

Engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa.Case study of theatre in Sierra Leone. Will be of interest to scholars, students and policymakers.Book InformationISBN 9781032584416Author Kathrin SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint...

Discusses pedagogical issues faced in the theatre classroom and how to address them.The field of performance pedagogy is evolving rapidly to respond to social changes regarding consent culture, COVID-19, racial justice, and remote education. This book is...

Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters marries art and science with a new and exciting collaboration between one of the world’s leading creativity scholars and an internationally renowned musical theatre composer. This book will help...

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia.It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times. Drawing on various theatrical performance texts, it...

Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this ‘horror of a Broadway...

Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry? This study approaches the...

Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage is the first book-length study of Kosky’s adaptations of tragedy in Australia.The book charts the early parts of Kosky’s career that came to impact upon his prolific work in opera in Europe.The book uses...

The essays in this book productively conjoin the fields of performance studies and American studies.The book will appeal to international programs and research projects in American Studies, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, and Theater Studies. The...

An accessible introduction to Harold Pinter's work, covering his entire career and drawing on his own archives to shed new light on his methods and processes. Aimed at undergraduate students studying modern and contemporary drama, playwriting and...

- Spectatorship is a topic of increased relevance in theatre and performance studies and has been so for a while. Spectatorship is undergoing a huge transformation and its activation is hotly debated: participation, interactivity (including digital) and...

The book fills a niche in early modern scholarship, no such comprehensive treatment of hobby-horse allusions was published before. Relevant dictionaries and glossaries in critical editions will be much helped by the book, because it contextualizes and...

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre company. Written by an experienced theatre practitioner and...