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Against theatre: creative destructions on the modernist stage
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers...
Naming theatre: demonstrative diagnosis in performance
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, c2009
Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and...
Performance and the global city
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this...
Avant-garde performance and material exchange: vectors of the radical
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping...
Contemporary British queer performance
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
If the 1970s saw the first appearance of lesbian and gay dramas, the 1990s have seen the rise of a broader but more troublesome claim on queer performance...
Cyborg theatre: corporeal/technological intersections in multimedia performance
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre,' metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized...
Performing site-specific theatre: politics, place, practice
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
This text investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the 21st century. Leading...
Contesting performance: global sites of research
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth...
Contemporary French theatre and performance: politics and aesthetics
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics...
A good night out for the girls: popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance
eBook. English.
2013
Innovative and engaging, A Good Night Out for the Girls looks beyond the confines of the political theatre paradigm that has been the mainstay of feminist...
