Theater Studies

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals R...

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representat...

This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully...

Essentials of Period Style: A Sourcebook for Stage and Production Designers covers the visual, social, and political dynamics of multiple epochs an...

Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor,...

The author examines how new music scores with extended playing techniques call for new practice structures. YouTube access to basic instructional v...

Character Sketch outlines a theory of costume rendering that explores how a designer conceptualizes and creates a character on the page. Beginning ...

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluati...

Creating Costumes for Devised Theatre combines perspectives from a variety of theatre practitioners to guide artists through the journey of creatin...

Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the g...

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors, prac...

Translating for performance is a difficult and hotly contested activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Stanislavskys system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural inno...

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight...

Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV, introduces and demonstrates a variety of mask ...

Now in its third edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician is a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and...

Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. ...

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello...

This book examines representations of the teacher on stage - in both theatrical performances and dramatic text - in order to demonstrate how these ...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

This book foregrounds the subjectivity of acting women amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and mar...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fosterin...

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods a...

This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowskis work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued...

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition...

The refusal on the part of academic critics to recognize the primacy of farce in Moliere's theatre is contradicted by wide spread theatrical pracit...

Throughout the twentieth century, live theatre has been challenged by a range of new media based on increasingly sophisticated technologies. In Sta...

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that years Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant retu...

Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brechts theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brechts...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World, Patricia Woodbridge, a highly experienced art director of...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of Shakespeares plays in whi...

Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corpora...

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Arti...

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Arti...

Reframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy refocuses how actors work in TV, film, and stage. In this refresh...

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, danc...

Restoration Staging 166074 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts....

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by cor...

Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians provides the tools for individuals and organizations to achieve a heal...

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers ...