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What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how
are they different? What events, people, practices and ideas have
shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first
century? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers
some answers to these big questions. It provides an analytical,
informative and engaging introduction to important people,
companies, events, concepts and practices that have defined the
complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. This fully
updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized
sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people
ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold
Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre
and documentation. Each entry includes crucial historical and
contextual information, extensive cross-referencing, detailed
analysis and an annotated bibliography. The Routledge Companion to
Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for the keen
student.
What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how
are they different? What events, people, practices and ideas have
shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first
century? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers
some answers to these big questions. It provides an analytical,
informative and engaging introduction to important people,
companies, events, concepts and practices that have defined the
complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. This fully
updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized
sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people
ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold
Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre
and documentation. Each entry includes crucial historical and
contextual information, extensive cross-referencing, detailed
analysis and an annotated bibliography. The Routledge Companion to
Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for the keen
student.
British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in
the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the
historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not
only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a
critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands
understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as
funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to
legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through
changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing),
theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities
(audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's
relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood).
Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading,
it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory,
queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to
demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British
theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
Lois Weaver is one of the world's leading figures in feminist and
lesbian performance, a true pioneer in the growing field. This book
offers the first book-length assessment of her career and work,
tracing its history, aesthetics, principles, inspirations,
innovations and more. Contributors include Weaver's most important
collaborators from throughout her career, as well as many of the
leading feminist theorists, journalists, and performers of the past
forty years. The book also includes interviews not just with
Weaver, but also with her partner, in life and performance, Peggy
Shaw, and groundbreaking theatre maker Muriel Miguel. The result is
a book that is truly unprecedented, a lavishly illustrated and
expertly curated celebration of an incredible career.
British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in
the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the
historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not
only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a
critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands
understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as
funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to
legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through
changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing),
theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities
(audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's
relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood).
Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading,
it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory,
queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to
demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British
theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
How can an understanding of theatre in the city help us make sense
of urban social experience? Theatre& the City explores how
relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect
social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity.
The book evaluates both material conditions (such as architecture)
and performative practices (such as urban activism) to argue that
both these categories contribute to the complex economies and
ecologies of theatre and performance in an increasingly urbanised
world. Foreword by Tim Etchells
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