Theatres of Contagion

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the ... Lees meer

Mediatized Dramaturgy

Seda Ilter

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how th... Lees meer

Christoph Schlingensief

Anna Teresa Scheer

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyd... Lees meer

Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama

Anja Hartl

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and engagement? This open ac... Lees meer

Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This col... Lees meer

Performing Arousal

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Shortlisted for the 2023 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic inquiry to encourage new ways... Lees meer

Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines

Jessica Silsby Brater

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bri... Lees meer

Sarah Kane's Theatre of Psychic Life

Leah Sidi

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre. This is the first book to fo... Lees meer

Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre

Marissia Fragkou

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-... Lees meer

Staging Decadence

Adam Alston

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Winner of the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize How is decadence being staged today - as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasur... Lees meer

Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre

Marissia Fragkou

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-... Lees meer

Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama

Anja Hartl

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and engagement? This open ac... Lees meer

Postdramatic Theatre and India

Ashis SenGupta

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• None of the Indian theatre-makers consciously built their works on the Euro-American model of the postdramatic, but many have used the theatre model i... Lees meer

Staging Systemic Violence

Alex Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic violence, exploring productions tha... Lees meer

Theatres of Contagion

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the ... Lees meer

Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag ... Lees meer

Christoph Schlingensief

Anna Teresa Scheer

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyd... Lees meer

A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to t... Lees meer

Harold Pinter

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• This important book offers a thematic collection of critical essays, ideal for undergraduate courses on modern British theatre, on Harold Pinter's the... Lees meer

The Contemporary History Play

Benjamin Poore

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah K... Lees meer

Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag ... Lees meer

Postdramatic Theatre and India

Ashis SenGupta

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• This book revisits Hans-Thies Lehmann's theory of the postdramatic and participates in the ongoing debate on the theatre paradigm by placing contempor... Lees meer

Mediatized Dramaturgy

Seda Ilter

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how th... Lees meer

The Art Gallery on Stage

Mariacristina Cavecchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how play... Lees meer