Performance art books

A play that takes place in the Qassim region, where the Ghatafan tribe has its two branches, Abs and Zebian, 50...  Read More >>

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This book examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in Early...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist...  Read More >>

The new music theatre of the third quarter of the twentieth century presents a research field of great richness....  Read More >>

Incapacity and Theatricality acknowledges the distinctive contribution to contemporary theatre made by actors with...  Read More >>

Performing artists are increasingly involved in the transfer between different media, in their productions as well...  Read More >>

Over a range of countries and political regimes, this book examines forms of theatre censorship in the 20th and...  Read More >>

What does immersive theatre ‘do’? By contrasting two specific performances on the same theme - one an 'immersive'...  Read More >>

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation...  Read More >>

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Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures...  Read More >>

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This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples...  Read More >>

Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances discusses forms and concepts of contemporary spectatorship and explores...  Read More >>

The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide...  Read More >>

Transformative Aesthetics presents a series of fresh perspectives on the discussion of aesthetics, uniting Western...  Read More >>

This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences...  Read More >>

Considering affect as mood, inclination, and manner, as well as emotion, and addressing affect as both an economic...  Read More >>

Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for...  Read More >>

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"The script for, and conversations around, artist Jesse Ash's multi-dimensional project built around a play about...  Read More >>

Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners...  Read More >>

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Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature,...  Read More >>