Microdramas

John H Muse

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In Microdramas , John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a disti... Lees meer

Embodying Black Experience

Harvey Young

• Hardcover | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life Lees meer

Sightlines

Helen Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australia... Lees meer

Performance Constellations

Marcela A Fuentes

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people... Lees meer

Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• This collection of essays explores the development of avant-garde theater and its relation to questions of textuality, authority, and the academy. Alt... Lees meer

Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Nicholas Ridout

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bour... Lees meer

The Player's Passion

Joseph Roach

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage Lees meer

Staging Philosophy

• Hardcover | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in this work ... Lees meer

Space in Performance

Gay McAuley

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Theater, as distinct from other dramatic media, is essentially a relationship between performer, spectator, and the space in which both come together.... Lees meer

Acts

Tzachi Zamir

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the fir... Lees meer

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• "Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She su... Lees meer

The Haunted Stage

Marvin Carlson

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Throughout theatrical history, almost every element in stage production has been recycled. Indeed any regular theatergoer is familiar with the experie... Lees meer

The President Electric

Timothy Raphael

• Hardcover | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Reveals how the systematic employment of the techniques and technologies of mass-media performance contributed to Ronald Reagan's rise to power and de... Lees meer

After Brecht

Janelle G Reinelt

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• After Brecht: British Epic Theater is the first book to fully explore contemporary British drama in the light of the influence of German playwright Be... Lees meer

A Beckett Canon

Ruby Cohn

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either E... Lees meer

Coloring Whiteness

Faedra Chatard Carpenter

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to revea... Lees meer

Staging Consciousness

William W Demastes

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Staging Consciousness argues that theater is a living invalidation of the Western dualism of mind and body, activating human consciousness through its... Lees meer

To Act, to Do, to Perform

Alice Rayner

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• A philosophical inquiry into how action is constituted by language, materiality, and performance Lees meer

Tom Stoppard in Conversation

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• This collection of interviews with British playwright Tom Stoppard, author of such well-known comedies as Travesties , Jumpers , and Rosencrantz and G... Lees meer

Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime

Timothy Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In the first collection of its kind, Timothy Murray brings together writing by leading French thinkers on the political effects of theatricality on th... Lees meer

Postmodern/Drama

Stephen Myers Watt

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• The absence of drama in most considerations of the "post-modern condition," Stephen Watt argues, demands a renewed exploration of drama's relationship... Lees meer

Avant-Garde Performance & the Limits of Criticism

Mike Sell

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• "Questions the limits of previous critical approaches to the avant-garde . . . [and] displays a deep sensitivity for the political aesthetics of the W... Lees meer

On Drama

Michael Goldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• The latest book by noted critic and scholar Michael Goldman provides fresh and unexpected insights into the role played by genre in the experience of ... Lees meer

Trevor Griffiths

Stanton B Garner

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• This book provides an in-depth look at the work of British writer Trevor Griffiths, who has been a powerful and unique presence in British theater, te... Lees meer