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Serie: Performance interventions
gebondenEngels9780230304420
22-5-2012
This book examines queer performance in Britain since the early 1990s, arguing for the significance of emerging collaborative modes of practice. Using queer theory and the history of early lesbian and gay theatre to examine claims to representation among other things, it interrogates the relationships through which recent works have been presented. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230203242
20-10-2010
Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230222809
24-11-2010
Irish theatre and its histories appear to be dominated by men and their actions. This book's socially and culturally contextualized analysis of performance over the last two decades, however reveals masculinities that are anything but hegemonic, played out in theatres and other arenas of performance all over Ireland. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230300491
30-4-2009
Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016
Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Meer
paperbackEngels9780230300842
17-4-2008
This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230006478
14-3-2007
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230537453
19-4-2006
Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230517707
16-10-2009
Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230574601
17-11-2010
A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230547094
17-4-2008
This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230364066
10-10-2012
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230204973
30-4-2009
Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016
Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Meer
gebondenEngels9780230221154
8-4-2009
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230580510
17-5-2011
This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230245839
28-4-2011
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre', metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230247475
25-10-2011
Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230008458
18-11-2009
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230241343
30-11-2010
Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230577916
14-3-2007
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230281035
29-11-2012
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! Meer