'Engaging Audiences' asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. The author introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre …
Throughout his career, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) had a complex and often uneasy relationship with theatre and performance. In Performance Degree Zero, Timothy Scheie argues that Barthes's body of work must be considered a lifelong engagement with theatre. Exploring his changing…
"Tactical Performance explores creative protest in unique depth, looking at the possibilities for direct action and theatrical confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It effectively combines theory and practice, illustrating the basic principles o…
This book will be an invaluable guide to anyone approaching the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of it forms - from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The many-headed nature of contemporary performance is requiring an increa…
This book will be an invaluable guide to anyone approaching the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of it forms - from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The many-headed nature of contemporary performance is requiring an increa…
"While much attention has been devoted to performances of Shakespeare's plays today, little has been focused on modern productions of the plays of his contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Webster and Jonson. Performing Early Modern Drama Today offers an overview of early modern perf…
What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That it 'stopped being a serious genre' after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality, visuality and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice? …