Democracy Moving

Ariel Nereson

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• On the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed three tributes: Serenade/The Proposit... Lees meer

Simming

Scott Magelssen

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• At an ecopark in Mexico, tourists pretend to be illegal migrants, braving inhospitable terrain and the U.S. Border Patrol as they attempt to cross the... Lees meer

Agitated States

Anthony James Kubiak

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been char... Lees meer

Cutting Performances

James M Harding

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• "A thoughtful and engaging contribution to the field that will have a sustained and lasting impact on the way feminist performance is defined and unde... Lees meer

The Captive Stage

Douglas A Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In The Captive Stage , Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, eve... Lees meer

Acts

Tzachi Zamir

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the fir... Lees meer

Ruins

Odai Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Much of the theater of antiquity is marked by erasures: missing origins, broken genres, fragments of plays, ruins of architecture, absented gods, rema... Lees meer

Microdramas

John H Muse

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In Microdramas , John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a disti... Lees meer

Performing Democracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Performing Democracy explores aspects of a developing form of performance that works to change social conditions for marginalized groups or to preserv... Lees meer

Sightlines

Helen Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australia... Lees meer

Performance Constellations

Marcela A Fuentes

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people... Lees meer

Hearing Voices

John H. Lutterbie

• Hardcover | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Modern drama and the radical possibilities of ethical listening Lees meer

Performing America

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Performing America provides fresh perspectives on the development of visions of both America and "America"--that is, the actual community and the cons... Lees meer

Dark Matter

Andrew Sofer

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Dark Matter maps the invisible dimension of theater whose effects are felt everywhere in performance. Examining phenomena such as hallucination, offst... Lees meer

Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Nicholas Ridout

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bour... Lees meer

Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• This collection of essays explores the development of avant-garde theater and its relation to questions of textuality, authority, and the academy. Alt... Lees meer

Alienation Effects

Branislav Jakovljevic

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political e... Lees meer

Critical Theory and Performance

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Critical Theory and Performance presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods and applies them to contemporary and historical performance... Lees meer

Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Nicholas Ridout

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bour... Lees meer

Edges of Loss

Mark Pizzato

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• One of the curious characteristics of much postmodern theory is the attention it has paid to theater, an art form seemingly more in danger of extincti... Lees meer

Performing the Intercultural City

Ric Knowles

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a re... Lees meer

The Player's Passion

Joseph Roach

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage Lees meer

Simming

Scott Magelssen

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• At an ecopark in Mexico, tourists pretend to be illegal migrants, braving inhospitable terrain and the U.S. Border Patrol as they attempt to cross the... Lees meer

David Mamet in Conversation

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog , Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer... Lees meer