Bøger i Theater: Theory/Text/Performance serien

Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.

Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. This study of history, class, and spectatorship offers proof of 'why theatre matters', and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.

Investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in this work make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance. It provides case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought.

Reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theatre, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe.

Embodied performance in South Africa has particular potency because apartheid was so centrally focused on the body. The majority of artists analysed here are people of colour. As the artists imagine new forms, they are helping audiences see the contemporary moment as it is: an important intervention in a country long predicated on denial.

Analyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.

Rich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.

In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto - a representative global city in this multicultural country - stages diversity through its many intercultural theatre companies and troupes.

In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial democracy, resulting in a culture difficult to classify.

Pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theatre, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness Faedra Chatard Carpenter explores how artists have challenged notions of racial identity.

A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

A guide to the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, commenting on his work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, this book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism.

The work of director, playwright, essayist, and poet Antonin Artaud has had a lasting influence, particularly among theatre scholars, who consider his 1938 book Le Theatre et son double a classic text of the avant-garde. This challenges the Artaud legend by reexamining his works in the context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history of the early 20th century.

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life

Examines one of the most radical and enduring changes introduced during the Civil Rights era - multiracial and cross-racial casting practices in American theatre. Multiracial casting is explored first through its history, then through its artistic, political, and pragmatic dimensions. It then focuses on case studies from the dominant genres of contemporary American theatre.

Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence--from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns--and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterful

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.

How simulated experiences--from living history to emergency preparedness drills--create meaning in performance

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see--and their profound significance in the theater

Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility. This engagingly written treatise on history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of "why theater matters", and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.

Examines the history of acting pedagogy and performance practice in the United States, and their debts to industrial organisation and philosophy. Ranging from the late 19th century through the end of the 20th, the book recontextualizes the history of theatrical technique in light of the embrace of industrialization in US culture and society.

Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theatre - the aesthetics of ruins.