This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
By Conrad Alexandrowicz
September 20, 2024
This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis. This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its ...
By Shuntaro Yoshida
September 20, 2024
This book sheds light on the choreographic practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art. Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur workshop participants. The ...
By Jennifer Williams
September 13, 2024
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. This volume investigates three case studies of how leading East Berlin stages ...
By Adele Senior
September 13, 2024
On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists. Meanwhile, across the contemporary performance landscape, children are participating as performers and collaborators in ways that resonate with this figure of the ...
By Lisa Moravec
August 19, 2024
The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics ...
By David Rodríguez-Solás
August 19, 2024
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy. This period, spanning 1968 to 1982, is considered the historical moment that most directly shaped ...
By Brooke O'Harra
August 13, 2024
With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against craft, O’Harra drives the art of directing forward. O’Harra investigates a series of important questions: How do we wrest our work from institutional imperatives of public ...
Edited
By George Potter, Samer Al-Saber, Roaa Ali
August 12, 2024
This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre. Through four sections discussing occupation and resistance, migration and refugees, religion and secularism, and nationalism and belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between ...
By Mark Broomfield
August 12, 2024
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of Black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden ...
By Anne Greenfield
August 12, 2024
This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth century: sexual violence. During this sixty-year span, there were over fifty tragic and tragi-comedic productions that showcased rape and/or attempted rape—a remarkable number that ...
By Chloé Arros
August 05, 2024
The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, their relationships to each other. Vulnerability is a main feature of both ...
By Gary M. English
August 05, 2024
This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines. While human rights research and programming often employ the arts as representations...