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

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

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

Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers

• Paperback | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Utopian Drama

Siân Adiseshiah

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an ... Lees meer

Ibsen in Practice

Frode Helland

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: it considers political theatre, institutional 'high... 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

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

Crisis, Representation and Resilience

• Paperback | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• A collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with - and through - crisis. It pays particular attentio... 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

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

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

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

Crisis, Representation and Resilience

• Hardcover | Engels | Methuen Drama Engage
• A collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with - and through - crisis. It pays particular attentio... Lees meer