This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
By Katharina Rein
June 01, 2023
This book explores stage conjuring during its “Golden Age”, from 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “Golden Age” and analyses them within their cultural ...
By Ciara L. Murphy
May 12, 2023
This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines how moments of significant change influence not only the content of performance practice but also the form ...
Edited
By Tancredi Gusman
May 12, 2023
This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understanding of it. Performance art emerged internationally between the 1960s and 1970s crossing disciplinary boundaries between performing arts and visual arts. ...
By Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerović
April 27, 2023
Live Digital Theatre explores the experiences of Interdisciplinary Performing Arts practitioners working on digital performance and in particular live digital theatre. Collaborating with world-leading practitioners – Kolectiv Theatre (UK), Teatro Os Satyros (Brazil), and The Red Curtain ...
Edited
By Julia Stenzel, Jan Mohr
April 21, 2023
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards. Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology initiate an interdisciplinary discussion of ...
By Emer O'Toole
April 07, 2023
This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as background to examine relationships between activism and contemporary Irish theatre and performance. It studies art explicitly ...
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka
April 07, 2023
(Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and ...
Edited
By Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka
April 07, 2023
This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated, and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools, and procedures not only for understanding ...
Edited
By Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way
March 24, 2023
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so,...
By Sophia A Mcclennen
March 24, 2023
Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of Trump. Covering a range of comedic interventions, it analyzes why political satire is surprisingly effective...
By Günther Heeg
March 17, 2023
This book outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and practices of xenophobia worldwide, this book makes a ...
By Naila Keleta-Mae
February 22, 2023
This book identifies and examines three years of Beyoncé’s career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist, and performance studies methodologies. This book explores how the careful choreography of Beyoncé’s image, voice, and public persona, coupled with her intelligent use of audio and ...
