Hakutulokset: Sarja Methuen Drama Engage
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Postdramatic Theatre and Form
Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments …
Performing Arousal
This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic inquiry to encourage new ways of staging and examining bodies in performance across artistic disciplines, modern …
Social Housing in Performance
This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and …
Theatre in the Dark
Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It …
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines
Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech’s work, Jessica Brater’s companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, …
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play
Mediatized Dramaturgy
This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how they, in form and content, …
Theatres of Contagion
To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current …
A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s
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 the fore. Its structure …
Spectatorship and the Real in French Contemporary Theatre
This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences’ frustration to generate an encounter with the real. Focusing on the work of directors such …
The Contemporary History Play
Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy …
Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre
Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind or another? Why do contemporary practitioners turn so frequently to non-dramatic texts for inspiration? This study …