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religious intolerance to the triumph of Hamilton, with the coda of the postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the
Broadway cast addressing a new Republican vice-president from the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers.
stage. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable
and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to
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Theory for Theatre Studies
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Theory for Theatre Studies meets the need for accessible, mid-length volumes that unpack key words that lie at the core of the discipline.
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Theory for Theatre Studies: Theory for Theatre Studies:
Sound Space
Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Kim Solga, Western University, Canada
Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical This book provides the first overview for students
theory for students and researchers in theatre and researchers of relevant critical theory relating to
and performance studies. Exploring areas such as this fundamental aspect of theatre and performance.
music, speech and soundscape, this volume will It examines the 'spatial turn' in 20th-century theatre
open up the study of theatrical production and live and performance making – and criticism – and
performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way establishes 5 frameworks for thinking through the spatial turn. A
of developed case studies, readers will access new methodologies range of case studies from the contemporary world of theatre and
and approaches for their own exploration of 'sound' as a performance performance demonstrate how these frameworks continue to shape
component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary and impact the ways in which space emerges as a topic of critical
field of sound studies, this book will alert theatre and performance discussion today. The volume also explores new trends and theatre's
studies scholars and students to new work important to our fields. engagement with the spaces of work, labour and capital.
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Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland
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S Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and "The best and most complete [book on Murphy]
periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original that anyone has yet produced and all future
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scholars and critics will use it as a diving board
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Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, most significant texts.
Galway, Ireland
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prominence during that period, starting with Beckett and Brendan
Behan in the 1950s, continuing with Brian Friel and Tom Murphy in the
1960s, and concluding with the many great dramatists who emerged
in the late 1990s – including Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, Conor The Drama and Theatre of Sarah
McPherson and Marina Carr. Ruhl
Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
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her plays, not just an explanation of them. Through
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play, readers are immersed in Ruhl’s unique idiom; in themes of love
and death, mourning and loss, intimacy and faith, and in inventive
The Theatre of Anthony Neilson stagecraft to articulate consciousness onstage. Enriched by engaging
Trish Reid, Kingston University, London, UK essays by three scholars, a roundtable discussion with female directors
of her generation, this is a companionable guide for students of
"Significant to the field of theatre and American literature and theatre studies.
performance because of its status as the first full-
length study of the playwright, but its importance
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and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a
detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new

interview with Neilson and with many of his key collaborators. The Theatre and Films of Conor
McPherson
UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 224 pages
PB 9781472570291 • £28.99 / $39.95 Conspicuous Communities
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This book offers a vibrant and detailed critical
analysis of the plays and films of Conor McPherson.
It considers issues of gender, class, violence, wealth and the
supernatural in relation to the conditions and expressions of agency
in the cultural, political and contexts in which the work is written
and performed. Supplemented by a number of contributed critical
and performance perspectives, including an interview with Conor
McPherson, the volume provides readers with a clear analysis of the
work and accounts for its popular and critical success.
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adults and asks how contemporary applied theatre
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examination of innovative national and international
theatre makers always, ultimately, align with the agendas of the donors
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on which they depend? Are there sustainable ways to finance or
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resource applied theatre that do not undermine its social and artistic
volume also questions how we, as a society, wish to respond to the
values or conflict with the interests of participants?
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applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both
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Popular Performance
Applied Theatre: Women and the Edited by Adam Ainsworth, Kingston University,
Criminal Justice System London, UK, Oliver Double, University of Kent,
UK & Louise Peacock, University of Hull, UK
Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University
London, UK Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of
performance where the main purpose is to entertain.
This provides the first sustained critical enquiry
Contributions by new and established scholars
into applied theatre practice with women affected
focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the
by the criminal justice system. Drawing on a
techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing
range of international case studies, interviews
to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance
with practitioners and participants and original documentation from
works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will
applied theatre projects, the book articulates new understanding
gain insights into the variety tradition; performance forms associated
about the cultural representations of women who offend, how
with circus; issues relating to the identity of the performer in burlesque
government policy inscribes social, economic and political values
and pantomime, and issues relating to venue and audience in
upon these bodies and how applied theatre practice negotiates ideas
contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy.
of identity, agency, authority and representation.
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present and future cultural and national identities.
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Puppetry in Southeast Asia is one of the oldest and
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most dynamic genres of performance. Bangkok,
A playwright Tennessee Williams’ works on Swedish and French stages
Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and other dynamic cities are expanding
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plays and considering issues of embodiment, performance and visual
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culture, Dirk Gindt charts and analyses the patterns of migration and
from Star Wars or giant puppets parading down the street, this book
cultural translation of Williams’ plays. Readers are provided with a
examines how puppets operate as objects and in performance to
nuanced understanding of the transnational impact of one of the 20th
make culture come alive.
century’s most influential playwrights.
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George Farquhar
Nomadic Theatre
A Migrant Life Reversed
Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage
David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
"This captivating biography, full of previously
This study introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a tool for
undiscovered material, tells the story of
analyzing mobile performances and performative installations. It
Restoration playwright George Farquhar (1677–
includes detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices
1707) in reverse: from his death in poverty,
by leading European artists, including Rimini Protokoll, Dries through the success of The Beaux Stratagem and
Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed and Signa, and demonstrates how A Recruiting Officer, and ending with his birth in Londonderry.
mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and
Essential reading not only for those interested in Farquhar or 18th-
alter our understanding of spectatorship. Nomadic Theatre takes an
century theatre, but also in the literature of the dispossessed, it
integrated approach to theory and practice, instigates connections
is the first study to combine elegant readings of Farquhar’s plays
across disciplinary fields, and feeds dramaturgical analysis with
with migrancy criticism. Farquhar, it shows, was more modern than
insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, any other writer of the period." Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare
architecture and game studies. Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
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framework for analysis. It examines three types of against death, against tragedy, against the
performances that exemplify this structure of feeling: intimate theatre closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom
seen in Forced Entertainment productions such as Quizoola!, as well designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive force
as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend Goed’s Internal; of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything, that is not
immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk’s shows The Masque mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for something, for
of the Red Death and The Drowned Man; and documentary theatre, something before the end, for revolution, perhaps. Its bold claims
through various examples such as Robin Soan’s Talking to Terrorists are sustained through illuminating attention to the experience of a
and Edmund Burke’s Black Watch. contemporary theatre that wrestles with its own contemporaneity."
Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
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Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty- Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
First Century Theatre Revolutions in Theatrical Space
Politics, Affect, Responsibility James Reynolds, Kingston University London, UK
Marissia Fragkou, Canterbury Christ Church Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is
University, UK interdisciplinary and intercultural, and, characterized
Presenting a critical investigation of the by intense hybridity. Robert Lepage / Ex Machina:
reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British Revolutions in Theatrical Space reads against the
theatre, Marissia Fragkou's study provides a fresh understanding grain of criticism, providing readers with a fresh,
of how theatre has engaged with issues of human vulnerability and practice-based and critical perspective by arguing that these aesthetic
responsibility in the last two decades. By focusing on the spiralling of practices operate simultaneously as positive cultural principles.
uncertainty in the new millennium, the study makes a case for reading Drawing directly on case studies of process, a wide range of
precarity as a political theatrical trope which carries the potential productions and in-depth interviews, this book intertwines theoretical
to re-animate our understanding of the ‘human’ and communal and practical concerns, weighing them in balance, and, in doing
responsibility for the lives of others. so, produces a new critical perspective on Robert Lepage and Ex
Machina.
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Social Housing in Performance
Postdramatic Theatre and Form
The English Council Estate on and off
Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Queen Mary
Stage
University of London, UK, Matt Cornish, Ohio
Katie Beswick, University of Exeter, UK University, USA & Brandon Woolf, New York
University, USA
Katie Beswick explores how council estates have
been represented in England across a range of This collection of essays brings together scholars,
performance forms. Drawing on examples from critics and artists to examine the stakes of continuing
mainstream, site-specific and socially engaged to use postdramatic theatre as a lens for studying
performance works, including work by SPID Theatre Company, contemporary performance. In addition to introducing key debates in
Jordan McKenzie, Bola Agbaje, Andrea Dunbar and The National contemporary performance and documenting recent developments
Youth Theatre, it considers the political potential of contemporary in European and North American theatre making, this collection
performance practices concerned with the council estate. insists that postdramatic theatre is a formal category of performance.
Representations of the council estate are brought into dialogue with Contributors draw on literary studies, art history, film studies and
North American cultural products, beside cultural representations philosophy to interrogate the aesthetic outputs of theatre as much as
of social housing elsewhere in Northern Europe and South Africa, its material conditions such as funding.
to uncover the features of the British context and situate the work
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I Thinking Through Theatre and The Sixth Sense of the Avant-
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S Netherlands, Adrian Kear, Wimbledon College Revolutionary Russia
of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK, Joe
E Kelleher, Roehampton University, UK & Heike Irina Sirotkina, National Research University
C Roms, University of Exeter, UK Higher School of Economics, Russia & Roger
Smith, Lancaster University, UK, and Institute of
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This radical new textbook introduces an innovative
Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
A approach to the study of performance. Emphasizing the need to
Russia
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R of theatre, Thinking Through Theatre and Performance examines everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and
O the ways in which performance – and performance studies – is itself multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to
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R critical investigation. of this time." The Russian Review
E This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and
P UK February 2019 • US March 2019 • 384 pages • 30 bw illus the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of
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Clowning as Social Performance
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Mind Series: Bloomsbury Companions • Methuen Drama
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Exploring Television Acting
Cambridge, UK
Edited by Tom Cantrell, University of
Performing Psychologies offers new perspectives
Westminster, UK & Christopher Hogg, Sheffield
on drama and psychology, demonstrating the value
Hallam University, UK
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