Theatre: individual actors & directors books

This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the...  Read More >>

Patrice Chéreau (1944 - 2013) was one of France’s leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence...  Read More >>

This book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy of...  Read More >>

A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre. Theatre is inescapably about bodies. The essays in...  Read More >>

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Actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872–1922) toured theatre throughout the British Empire and beyond. His...  Read More >>

Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early...  Read More >>

Like many Ziegfeld Follies girls, Mary Nolan had the beginnings of a promising career, but by the 1930s it had been...  Read More >>

Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late visual work, all reproduced in color.  Read More >>

Offers a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era,...  Read More >>

Theatre's materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of...  Read More >>

The fascinating story of the entertainment used to keep up the troops' spirits in the Second World War.  Read More >>

The... story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt,...  Read More >>

In 1933, Margaret Sullavan made her film debut and was an overnight sensation. This biography covers her film career...  Read More >>

Even amidst the Maoist era's politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre...  Read More >>

"She said, ""I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress,"" but Barbra Streisand not only became...  Read More >>

Tracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring...  Read More >>

Since its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation....  Read More >>

This incisive and thoughtful new title in the Theatre And series confronts the difficult relationship between theatre...  Read More >>

This important contribution to the Theatre And series explores what the possibilities and limits of ‘community’...  Read More >>

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor...  Read More >>

Robert Lepage is one of Canada’s foremost theatre authors and directors. His company, Ex Machina, has toured to...  Read More >>