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Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics.

Contributors include: Philip Auslander, Rustom Bharucha, Tim Etchells, Jane Goodall, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jon Mckenzie, Claire MacDonald, Susan Melrose, Alphonso Lingis, Richard Schechner, Rebecca Schneider, Edward Scheer, and Freddie Rokem.

A Performance Cosmology is structured as a travelogue through a matrix of strategic, imaginary, interdisciplinary field stations. This innovative framework enables readings which disrupt linearity and afford different forms of thematic engagement. The resulting volume opens entirely new vistas on the old, new, and as yet unimagined, worlds of performance.

Come find your way to adventure in this fun book - choose your own path through the mysterious market at the edge of the forest. Explore another world with this interactive book of fantasy and magic. Fight ogres, meet gypsies, and enter the land of dreams

Schizophrenia is seen as madness, an incurable disease that one never recovers from. But for William Brundage, developing and living with schizophrenia is a spiritual journey that the modern assumptions about mental illness cannot capture. Into the Thicket describes Brundage's life as a teen whose schizophrenia calls him deep into the Oregon woods, endangering his life, while also awakening his sense of spirituality and connection with the natural world. His battle to overcome and control his schizophrenia-through years of doctors and hospitals and medications-is both uplifting and poignant. It's a rare glimpse into a world most people have never understood, and few have been able to write about.