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Performance And The City

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.
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Performing Site-Specific Theatre - Politics, Place, Practice

131,84€ + 10% CARD

 This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
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Contemporary British Queer Performance

by S. Greer

145,09€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Performance And Place

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Featuring a mix of both practitioners and scholars, this volume explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of place. It examines how we experience performance's many and varied sites as part of the fabric of the art work itself, whether they are institutional or transient, real or online.
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Visuality In The Theatre - The Locus Of Looking

by M. Bleeker

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 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.
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Political Theatre In Post-Thatcher Britain - New Writing, 1995-2005

by A. Kritzer

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The 'in-yer-face' plays of the mid-1990s announced a new generation shaped by Thatcherism and defined by antipathy to social ideals and political involvement. They have generated thoughtful and lively responses from playwrights. The resulting dialogue has brought politics to the forefront of British drama and reinvigorated British theatre.
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Performance, Politics, And The War On Terror - ''Whatever It Takes''

by Sara Brady

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.
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Refugees, Theatre And Crisis - Performing Global Identities

by A. Jeffers

98,71€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Cyborg Theatre - Corporeal/Technological Intersections In Multimedia Performance

by J. Parker-Starbuck

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 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. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world.
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Contemporary French Theatre And Performance

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 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.
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Avant-Garde Performance And Material Exchange - Vectors Of The Radical

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 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.
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Performance In The Borderlands

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 A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm.Â This bookÂ 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.
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Masculinities And The Contemporary Irish Theatre

by B. Singleton

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 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.
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Shakespeare In Transition - Political Appropriations In The Postcommunist Czech Republic

by M. Kostihova

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 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.
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Against Theatre - Creative Destructions On The Modernist Stage

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 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. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.
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Contesting Performance - Global Sites Of Research

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 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. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.
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Naming Theatre - Demonstrative Diagnosis In Performance

by J. Frieze

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 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. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics?
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Get Real - Documentary Theatre Past And Present

116,60€ + 10% CARD

 Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
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Get Real - Documentary Theatre Past And Present

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 Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
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Contemporary British Queer Performance

by S. Greer

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 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.
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Avant-Garde Performance And Material Exchange - Vectors Of The Radical

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 Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essaysÂ 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.
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A Good Night Out For The Girls - Popular Feminisms In Contemporary Theatre And Performance

by E. Aston e G. Harris

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 Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.
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Performance, Politics, And The War On Terror - 'Whatever It Takes'

by Sara Brady

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 Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.
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Shakespeare In Transition - Political Appropriations In The Postcommunist Czech Republic

by M. Kostihova

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 Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals,Â 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.
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