Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
About the Book Series
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.
Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era
1st Edition
By Kristin Hunt
January 30, 2025
This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era’s destabilization of shared ...
Researching Popular Entertainment
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Baston, Jason Price
December 27, 2024
Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment. Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this field. The often-dismissed status of popular ...
Afrikinesis: A Paradigm for Research on African and African Diaspora Dance
1st Edition
By Ofosuwa Abiola
December 19, 2024
This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements. This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on ...
America Under the Influence: Drinking, Culture, and Immersive Performance
1st Edition
By Chloë Rae Edmonson
December 18, 2024
In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space and practice. Combining archival research with firsthand ...
Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Samantha Dressel, Matthew Carter
December 18, 2024
This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divided into three sections: History-cal Violence, (Un)Comic Violence, and Revenge Violence. This division allows scholars to easily find intertextual ...
Bourdieu in the Studio: Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism
1st Edition
By Evi Stamatiou
December 18, 2024
This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how actor training uniquely combines elements of education and culture. It is the first practical and rigorous investigation of Pierre Bourdieu’s idea that ...
Contemporary Storytelling Performance: Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences
1st Edition
By Stephe Harrop
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, ...
Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre
1st Edition
By Phoebe Rumsey
December 18, 2024
Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in ...
Independent Performing Arts in Europe: Establishment and Survival of an Emerging Field
1st Edition
By Thomas Fabian Eder
December 18, 2024
This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the field. This book presents a neo-institutional examination of the organizational field including its routines, scripts, and expectations which provides a ...
Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre
1st Edition
By Colleen Rua
December 18, 2024
This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This book argues that the historical trajectory of these musicals has formed a canon of works that have reiterated, resisted or transformed experiences of ...
Performing Religion on the Secular Stage
1st Edition
By Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
December 18, 2024
This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde ...
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects: Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities, Consecrating Acts, Priestly Puppeteers
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Orenstein, Tim Cusack
December 18, 2024
This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, historically and throughout the globe, many uses of puppets and related objects have ...