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  • Acts of Activismby D. Soyini Madison

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 30.00

    Madison tells the poignant stories of how activists in South Saharan Africa employ performances in their struggles for human rights. more...

  • Arts Marketing Insightsby Joanne Scheff Bernstein; Philip Kotler

    Wiley 2006; US$ 27.95

    Audience behavior began to shift dramatically in the mid 1990s. Since then, people have become more spontaneous in purchasing tickets and increasingly prefer selecting specific programs to attend rather than buying a subscription series. Arts attenders also expect more responsive customer service than ever before. Because of these and other factors,... more...

  • Black Theatreby Paul Carter Harrison; Gus Edwards; Victor Leo Walker Ii

    Temple University Press 2002; US$ 33.95

    Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and... more...

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Actressby Maggie B. Gale; John Stokes

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 29.00

    A collection of essays on the cultural role of performing women on stage and on screen. more...

  • Contemporary British Queer Performanceby Stephen Greer

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    This book examines queer performance in Britain since the early 1990s, arguing for the significance of emerging collaborative modes of practice. Using queer theory and the history of early lesbian and gay theatre to examine claims to representation among other things, it interrogates the relationships through which recent works have been presented. more...

  • Disability Culture and Community Performanceby Petra Kuppers

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. more...

  • Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performanceby Dr Matthew Reason

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.00

    The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies. Focusing on contemporary performance practice and with emphasis on the transformative impact of video, photography and writing, this book explores the ideological, practical, and representational implications of knowing performance through its documentations. more...

  • Feminist Futures?by Geraldine Harris; Professor Elaine Aston

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 40.00

    This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance. The excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and practitioners engaging in lively, cutting-edge debates on critical topics make this essential reading for students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Gender Studies. more...

  • Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbookby Elaine Aston

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 37.95

    Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook is a helpful, practical guide to theatre-making which explores the different ways of representing gender. Best-selling author, Elaine Aston, takes the reader through the various stages of making feminist theatre- from warming up, through workshopped exploration, to performance - this volume is organised into... more...

  • Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Dramaby Kanika Batra

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 138.00

    In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the... more...