Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books

Performance Studies in Motion

International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century

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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014

Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars and practitioners, it shows how performance...
by Mark Taylor-Batty, Dr Marissia Fragkou, Prof. Enoch Brater
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018

Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre provides a fresh understanding of how theatre has engaged with precarity, affect, risk, intimacy, care and relationality in recent...
by Maurya Wickstrom, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism...

Social Housing in Performance

The English Council Estate on and off Stage

by Dr Katie Beswick, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the...

Robert Lepage / Ex Machina

Revolutions in Theatrical Space

by Mark Taylor-Batty, Dr James Reynolds, Prof. Enoch Brater
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space provides an ideal introduction to one of our most innovative companies – and a much-needed and timely reappraisal of Lepage's oeuvre. International, interdisciplinary and intercultural to the core, Ex Machina have negotiated some of the most...

Theatre in the Expanded Field

Seven Approaches to Performance

by Alan Read
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin them. Rich with interdisciplinary reference, international, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers...
by Ms Sabrina Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015

I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I'm not safe, I don't know the way. Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Leading us through her world of...

Singing on Stage

An Actor's Guide

by Jane Streeton, Philip Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

Singing on stage can be a daunting prospect for actors, particularly for those who have not sung before. Yet singing should be an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Singing on Stage: An Actor's Guide gives an insight for the first time into the vocal techniques and practical approaches...

The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today

An Introduction to the Work and Principles of Augusto Boal

by Ali Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? This book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic principles Boal's techniques are founded on, tracking...
by Grzegorz Niziolek, Claire Cochrane, Bruce McConachie
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma...

Nomadic Theatre

Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage

by Dr Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Adrian Kear, Maaike Bleeker
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019

Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing performers: these are some of the key ingredients of nomadic theatre. They are also theatre's response to life in the 21st century, which is increasingly marked by the mobility of people, information, technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause or heckling. Performer and role are interlaced, so that we are left uncertain about just how the persona...
by Prof Nicola Shaughnessy, Professor John Lutterbie
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016

This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the 'biologization' of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body...
by Prof Michael Balfour, Dr Sheila Preston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018

The APPLIED THEATRE series is a major innovation in applied theatre scholarship: each book presents new ways of seeing and critically reflecting on this dynamic and vibrant field. Volumes offer a theoretical framework and introductory survey of the field addressed, combined with a range of case studies...
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