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Theory/Theatre: An Introduction
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 30.95Theory/Theatre: An Introduction provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Mark Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. Drawing upon examples from Shakespeare and Aphra... more...
Acoustic Interculturalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing ? an awareness of how sound shapes the intercultural experience. more...
Words, Space, and the Audience
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Situating theatre in crucial moments in history and philosophy, this book reads four of the most influential plays through their contemporary epistemological debates between rationalism and empiricism. more...
Performance and the Politics of Space
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical... more...
Philosophers and Thespians
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 22.95This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. more...
Theatre/Ecology/Cognition
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology, Paavolainen investigates how the interplay of actors and objects affords a degree of enjoyment and understanding, whether or not the viewer speaks the language.... more...
The Future of Ritual
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 45.95In The Future of Ritual , Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural... more...
Theatre and Everyday Life
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 49.95Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather... more...
Performance Theory
Routledge 2003; US$ 22.95This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies. more...
Dubious Spectacle
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 72.00Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau?his directing, writing, and criticism?has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. more...









