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Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatreby Christopher Innes
Routledge 2000; US$ 43.95A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascinating overview of naturalist theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to exemplify the movement. A must for all students studying naturalist theatre. more...
Theory/Theatreby Mark Fortier
Routledge 1997; US$ 30.95A unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly examines theoretical approaches from semiotics to postcolonial studies and feminist theory. more...
Politics of Performanceby Baz Kershaw
Routledge 1992; US$ 38.95Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice. more...
Enter The Bodyby Carol Chillington Rutter
Routledge 2000; US$ 48.95One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them. more...
Post-Colonial Dramaby Helen Gilbert; Joanne Tompkins
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95The first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. Brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies. more...
Parameters of Postmodernismby Nicholas Zurbrugg
Routledge 1993; US$ 55.95This ground-breaking work draws upon the authors interviews with leading postmodern artists, including Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage and Glass. It offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture. more...
Contemporary Feminist Theatresby Lizbeth Goodman
Routledge 1993; US$ 45.95A much-needed analysis of the development of feminist theatre in different cultures and on several continents in the past quarter-century. more...
Carry on Understudiesby Michelene Wandor
Routledge 1986; US$ 24.95`one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics ... illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's Review more...
Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Centuryby John H. Houchin; Don B. Wilmeth
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. This study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then analyzes key episodes from 1900 to 2000. more...
Anthropocosmic Theatreby Nichos Nunez; Deborah Middleton
Routledge 1997; US$ 45.95In this work the author traces his researches with Grotowski and Strasberg, at the Old Vic in London, and in Nahuatlan and Tibetan theatre to arrive at his design for a unique participatory theatre form. more...