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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(Syn)aesthetics
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 29.00A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. more...
Anatomy Live
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 40.00Anatomy Live demonstrates how the implications of the history of anatomical theatre can be seen at work in the appearance of dancing and acting bodies on stage. more...
Presence in Play
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 67.20Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of theatrical presence to be published. Theatre as an art form has often been associated with notions of presence. The live immediacy of the actor, the unmediated unfolding of dramatic action and the energy generated... more...
Theatricality as Medium
Fordham University Press 2004; US$ 24.99Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related to the theatrical medium, such as the process... 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...









