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.
From Object to Performance: The Beginnings of Israeli Performance Art
1st Edition
By Dror Harari
July 24, 2025
From Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a “performance mentality” and the gradual maturation of a “performative turn” in Israeli art. Manifested in the transition from object-oriented art to performance-based art, this cultural moment reflected ...
Embracing Disruption: Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance
1st Edition
By Stephen Wisker
July 23, 2025
This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning in Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and explores how he purposefully invited the clown’s anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy. Clowning was a potent but divisive force in the theater of Shakespeare’s time, challenging the emerging ...
Performance and Performativity of Dalit Students Politics in India: The Justice for Rohith Movement
1st Edition
By Malavika Priyadarshini Rao
July 18, 2025
This book examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday performance of Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD student, died,by suicide in Hyderabad Central University on 17 January 2016 in ...
Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington: Terrell, Du Bois, and the Drama of the 1932 Bicentennial
1st Edition
By Lurana Donnels O’Malley
July 11, 2025
This book examines how early twentieth-century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States. White-authored pageants and plays written for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birthday relegated Black Americans to the periphery through racist ...
Black Women Centre Stage: Diasporic Solidarity in Contemporary Black British Theatre
1st Edition
By Paola Prieto López
June 27, 2025
This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK. Through the concept of creative diasporic solidarity, it offers an innovative theoretical approach to examine the ways in which the playwrights respond ...
Burning Man: Learning from Heterotopia
1st Edition
By Linda Noveroske-Tritten
June 27, 2025
This book centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change. With particular focus on the Ten Principles of Burning Man, Linda Noveroske-Tritten posits a re-interpretation of common notions of "self" and "other" as they apply to...
Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor: A Guide for Actors and Directors
1st Edition
By John Gribas, Angeline Underwood
June 27, 2025
Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the characters they play. Grounded in a contemporary approach to understanding and applying the power of metaphor, it offers a practical guide for both actors and directors. This book ...
Of Kings and Clowns: Leadership in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre Since 1967
1st Edition
By Tiran Manucharyan
June 27, 2025
This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967. Through detailed analyses of the plays, the book investigates the ways Egyptian theatre represents, formulates, and imagines political and cultural leadership and, by implication, enacts its own leadership. Alongside ...
Screened Stages: On Theatre in Film
1st Edition
By Rachel Joseph
June 27, 2025
This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages. A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically ...
Meaning in the Midst of Performance: Contradictions of Participation
1st Edition
By Gareth White
May 27, 2025
Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things, we are put in the situation of being both actor and spectator, of being part of the work of art while also being the audience who receives it, and of being both perceiving ...
Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theater
1st Edition
By Cătălina Florina Florescu
May 06, 2025
In this collection, the author focuses on several contemporary Romanian female playwrights with residencies in Europe and the U.S.: Alexandra Badea, Carmen-Francesca Banciu, Alexa Băcanu, Ana Sorina Corneanu, Mihaela Drăgan, Dr. Cătălina Florina Florescu, Dr. Mihaela Michailov, Dr. Domnica ...
Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ramona Mosse, Anna Street
May 06, 2025
This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century. Focusing on the interaction between tragedy and comedy, both renowned and emerging scholarly and creative voices from philosophy, theater, literature, ...