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Women's Intercultural Performanceby Julie Holledge; Joanne Tompkins
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. more...
What is Scenography?by Pamela Howard
Routledge 2001; US$ 37.95A provocative re-evaluation of the traditional role and methods of theatre designers, pointing towards a more holistic approach to making theatre. more...
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Irelandby Lionel Pilkington
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. more...
Community Theatreby Eugene van Erven
Routledge 2000; US$ 36.95This is a unique record of the similarities and differences which exist within the vital artform of Community Theatre throughout the world. more...
Theatre at the Crossroads of Cultureby Loren Kruger; Patrice Pavis
Routledge 1991; US$ 44.95Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata , Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande , and Barba's Faust. more...
Re-Dressing the Canonby Alisa Solomon
Routledge 1997; US$ 41.95Solomon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. more...
Captive Audienceby Thomas Fahy; Kimball King
Routledge 2003; US$ 110.00This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. more...
Sense of an Interiorby Diana Fuss
Routledge 2004; US$ 45.00The Sense of an Interior is a fascinating exploration of domestic space and of the ways it determines how writers work. more...
The Life of a Textby Philip Lutgendorf
University of California Press 1991; US$ 70.00The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text?the epic Ramcaritmanas ?and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture. The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely... more...
Theory/theatreby Mark Fortier
Routledge 2002; US$ 38.95Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. more...









