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Drama &
performance
stuDies
new Books catalogue
2018-19
ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS
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the trustworthy scholarship of the Arden Shakespeare. $9.95
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“The Arden
Performance Editions
so far represent a much-needed
and important contribution. In such
a crowded market, it is remarkable
to see editions that feel so fresh,
relevant, and necessary.”
Studies in Theatre and
Performance
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Drama and Performance Studies the incredible publishing histories of Methuen Drama, The Arden
Shakespeare, T&T Clark and Fairchild Books in one place. And we’re
still growing: I.B. Tauris, a leading publisher in Middle East Studies,
Theatre Studies...................................................2 International Studies, History, Politics and Visual Culture joined
Bloomsbury in 2018!
Performance Studies...........................................8 EBooks
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Brecht on Performance Brecht On Theatre
Messingkauf and Modelbooks Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht Edited by Marc Silberman, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, USA, Steve Giles, University
Edited by Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's College,
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Rise Up! Reader in Tragedy
Broadway and American Society from An Anthology of Classical Criticism to
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, USA Edited by Marcus Nevitt, University of Sheffield,
Organized chronologically, this lively and readable UK & Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College, The City
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the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster This unique anthology presents the most important
that was Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark through historical essays on tragedy, ranging from
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angel crashed (quite literally) through the ceiling of prejudice and in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and
religious intolerance to the triumph of Hamilton, with the coda of the postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the
Broadway cast addressing a new Republican vice-president from the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers.
stage. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable
and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to
UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 240 pages 21st-century theorists.
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Theory for Theatre Studies
Series Editors: Kim Solga, Western University, Canada & Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada
Theory for Theatre Studies meets the need for accessible, mid-length volumes that unpack key words that lie at the core of the discipline.
Aimed primarily at undergraduate students and secondarily at postgraduates and researchers, these volumes feature both background material
historicizing the term, and forward-looking research into intersecting theoretical trends in the field. Case studies ground volumes in praxis, and
additional online resources ensure readers are equipped with the necessary skills and understanding to move deeper into the discipline.
Theory for Theatre Studies: Theory for Theatre Studies:
Sound Space
Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Kim Solga, Western University, Canada
Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical This book provides the first overview for students
theory for students and researchers in theatre and researchers of relevant critical theory relating to
and performance studies. Exploring areas such as this fundamental aspect of theatre and performance.
music, speech and soundscape, this volume will It examines the 'spatial turn' in 20th-century theatre
open up the study of theatrical production and live and performance making – and criticism – and
performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way establishes 5 frameworks for thinking through the spatial turn. A
of developed case studies, readers will access new methodologies range of case studies from the contemporary world of theatre and
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component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary and impact the ways in which space emerges as a topic of critical
field of sound studies, this book will alert theatre and performance discussion today. The volume also explores new trends and theatre's
studies scholars and students to new work important to our fields. engagement with the spaces of work, labour and capital.
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Critical Companions
T H E AT R E S T U D I E S
Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland & Kevin J. Wetmore, Loyola Marymount The Theatre of Tom Murphy
University, USA Playwright Adventurer
Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Methuen Drama's Critical Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and "The best and most complete [book on Murphy]
periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original that anyone has yet produced and all future
research, each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body scholars and critics will use it as a diving board
of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. from which to plunge into Murphy's deep and
turbulent waters." Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times
Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in
the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright
Irish Drama and Theatre Since of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy in
1950 2012–13 served to underline his continuing appeal and importance.
This provides an overview of all his work and a detailed reading of his
Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, most significant texts.
Galway, Ireland
Drawing on major new archival discoveries and UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages
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recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an Previously published in HB 9781472568113
innovative, highly readable and informative account Individual eBook 9781472568120
of Irish drama and theatre since 1950. The book Library eBook 9781472568137
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focuses on the many Irish dramatists who have achieved international
prominence during that period, starting with Beckett and Brendan
Behan in the 1950s, continuing with Brian Friel and Tom Murphy in the
1960s, and concluding with the many great dramatists who emerged
in the late 1990s – including Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, Conor The Drama and Theatre of Sarah
McPherson and Marina Carr. Ruhl
UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
PB 9781474262651 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474262644 • £65.00 / $88.00 Minnesota, USA
Individual eBook 9781474262668
Library eBook 9781474262675 This study provides a clear and accessible analysis of
Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama Sarah Ruhl's ouevre, giving readers an experience of
her plays, not just an explanation of them. Through
a finely-grained, dimensional account of each
play, readers are immersed in Ruhl’s unique idiom; in themes of love
and death, mourning and loss, intimacy and faith, and in inventive
The Theatre of Anthony Neilson stagecraft to articulate consciousness onstage. Enriched by engaging
Trish Reid, Kingston University, London, UK essays by three scholars, a roundtable discussion with female directors
of her generation, this is a companionable guide for students of
"Significant to the field of theatre and
American literature and theatre studies.
performance because of its status as the first full-
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Performance Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama
This volume provides the first full-length study of both Neilson’s plays
and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a
detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new
interview with Neilson and with many of his key collaborators. The Theatre and Films of Conor
UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 224 pages McPherson
PB 9781472570291 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781472570307 Conspicuous Communities
Individual eBook 9781472570314
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Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin,
Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama Ireland
This book offers a vibrant and detailed critical
analysis of the plays and films of Conor McPherson.
It considers issues of gender, class, violence, wealth and the
supernatural in relation to the conditions and expressions of agency
in the cultural, political and contexts in which the work is written
and performed. Supplemented by a number of contributed critical
and performance perspectives, including an interview with Conor
McPherson, the volume provides readers with a clear analysis of the
work and accounts for its popular and critical success.
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Series Editors: Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Australia & Sheila Preston, University of East London, UK
The Applied Theatre series brings together leading international scholars who engage with and advance the field. Volumes offer a
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engaging with, practice.
Applied Theatre: Creative Applied Theatre: Economies
Ageing Edited by Molly Mullen, University of Auckland,
Sheila McCormick, University of Salford, UK New Zealand
Applied Theatre: Economies addresses a notoriously
Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the
problematic area of applied theatre, asking: Is it all
complex social, political and cultural needs of older
about the money? Are the aims and forms of applied
adults and asks how contemporary applied theatre
theatre inevitably determined by the economic
responds to those needs. This publication allows an
conditions in which it is produced? Will applied
examination of innovative national and international
theatre makers always, ultimately, align with the agendas of the donors
practice in applied theatre that responds to the needs of older adults
on which they depend? Are there sustainable ways to finance or
to encourage outcomes such as wellbeing and social inclusion. The
resource applied theatre that do not undermine its social and artistic
volume also questions how we, as a society, wish to respond to the
values or conflict with the interests of participants?
complex needs of older adults and the process of ageing and how
applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both
UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 280 pages
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Popular Performance
Applied Theatre: Women and the Edited by Adam Ainsworth, Kingston University,
Criminal Justice System London, UK, Oliver Double, University of Kent,
UK & Louise Peacock, University of Hull, UK
Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University
London, UK Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of
performance where the main purpose is to entertain.
This provides the first sustained critical enquiry
Contributions by new and established scholars
into applied theatre practice with women affected
focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the
by the criminal justice system. Drawing on a
techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing
range of international case studies, interviews
to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance
with practitioners and participants and original documentation from
works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will
applied theatre projects, the book articulates new understanding
gain insights into the variety tradition; performance forms associated
about the cultural representations of women who offend, how
with circus; issues relating to the identity of the performer in burlesque
government policy inscribes social, economic and political values
and pantomime, and issues relating to venue and audience in
upon these bodies and how applied theatre practice negotiates ideas
contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy.
of identity, agency, authority and representation.
UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 304 pages • 8 bw illus
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T H E AT R E S T U D I E S
Tennessee Williams in Sweden Puppets and Cities
and France, 1945–1965 Articulating Identities in Southeast Asia
Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana University, USA
Racial Fantasies The book addresses how puppetry complements
Dirk Gindt, Stockholm University, Sweden and combines with urban spaces to articulate
present and future cultural and national identities.
This volume provides a critical study of the Puppetry in Southeast Asia is one of the oldest and
processes of production and reception of American most dynamic genres of performance. Bangkok,
playwright Tennessee Williams’ works on Swedish and French stages Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and other dynamic cities are expanding
at the height of his commercial popularity between 1945 and 1965. and rapidly changing. Performance brings people together, offers
With each chapter focusing on stage productions of one of the major opportunities for economic growth, and bridges public and private
plays and considering issues of embodiment, performance and visual spheres. Whether it is a traditional shadow performance borrowing
culture, Dirk Gindt charts and analyses the patterns of migration and from Star Wars or giant puppets parading down the street, this book
cultural translation of Williams’ plays. Readers are provided with a examines how puppets operate as objects and in performance to
nuanced understanding of the transnational impact of one of the 20th make culture come alive.
century’s most influential playwrights.
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Library eBook 9781350022065 Methuen Drama
Methuen Drama
George Farquhar
Nomadic Theatre
A Migrant Life Reversed
Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
"This captivating biography, full of previously
This study introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a tool for undiscovered material, tells the story of
analyzing mobile performances and performative installations. It Restoration playwright George Farquhar (1677–
includes detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices 1707) in reverse: from his death in poverty,
by leading European artists, including Rimini Protokoll, Dries through the success of The Beaux Stratagem and
Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed and Signa, and demonstrates how A Recruiting Officer, and ending with his birth in Londonderry.
mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and Essential reading not only for those interested in Farquhar or 18th-
alter our understanding of spectatorship. Nomadic Theatre takes an century theatre, but also in the literature of the dispossessed, it
integrated approach to theory and practice, instigates connections is the first study to combine elegant readings of Farquhar’s plays
across disciplinary fields, and feeds dramaturgical analysis with with migrancy criticism. Farquhar, it shows, was more modern than
insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, any other writer of the period." Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare
architecture and game studies. Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 240 pages • 1 bw illus
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Methuen Drama Engage
T H E AT R E S T U D I E S
Series Editors: Mark Taylor-Batty, Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK & Enoch Brater, The University of Michigan, USA
Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and
performance. Each volume challenges mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Authenticity in Contemporary Fiery Temporalities in Theatre
Theatre and Performance and Performance
Make it Real The Initiation of History
Daniel Schulze, Theater Konstanz, Germany Maurya Wickstrom, City University of New York,
This study analyses the ‘culture of authenticity’ as USA
it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical "In a wonderful book that sets itself compellingly
framework for analysis. It examines three types of against death, against tragedy, against the
performances that exemplify this structure of feeling: intimate theatre closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom
seen in Forced Entertainment productions such as Quizoola!, as well designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive force
as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend Goed’s Internal; of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything, that is not
immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk’s shows The Masque mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for something, for
of the Red Death and The Drowned Man; and documentary theatre, something before the end, for revolution, perhaps. Its bold claims
through various examples such as Robin Soan’s Talking to Terrorists are sustained through illuminating attention to the experience of a
and Edmund Burke’s Black Watch. contemporary theatre that wrestles with its own contemporaneity."
Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 296 pages
PB 9781350086654 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 264 pages
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Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty- Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
First Century Theatre Revolutions in Theatrical Space
Politics, Affect, Responsibility James Reynolds, Kingston University London, UK
Marissia Fragkou, Canterbury Christ Church Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is
University, UK interdisciplinary and intercultural, and, characterized
Presenting a critical investigation of the by intense hybridity. Robert Lepage / Ex Machina:
reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British Revolutions in Theatrical Space reads against the
theatre, Marissia Fragkou's study provides a fresh understanding grain of criticism, providing readers with a fresh,
of how theatre has engaged with issues of human vulnerability and practice-based and critical perspective by arguing that these aesthetic
responsibility in the last two decades. By focusing on the spiralling of practices operate simultaneously as positive cultural principles.
uncertainty in the new millennium, the study makes a case for reading Drawing directly on case studies of process, a wide range of
precarity as a political theatrical trope which carries the potential productions and in-depth interviews, this book intertwines theoretical
to re-animate our understanding of the ‘human’ and communal and practical concerns, weighing them in balance, and, in doing
responsibility for the lives of others. so, produces a new critical perspective on Robert Lepage and Ex
Machina.
UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 248 pages
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Social Housing in Performance
Postdramatic Theatre and Form
The English Council Estate on and off Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Queen Mary
Stage University of London, UK, Matt Cornish, Ohio
Katie Beswick, University of Exeter, UK University, USA & Brandon Woolf, New York
Katie Beswick explores how council estates have University, USA
been represented in England across a range of This collection of essays brings together scholars,
performance forms. Drawing on examples from critics and artists to examine the stakes of continuing
mainstream, site-specific and socially engaged to use postdramatic theatre as a lens for studying
performance works, including work by SPID Theatre Company, contemporary performance. In addition to introducing key debates in
Jordan McKenzie, Bola Agbaje, Andrea Dunbar and The National contemporary performance and documenting recent developments
Youth Theatre, it considers the political potential of contemporary in European and North American theatre making, this collection
performance practices concerned with the council estate. insists that postdramatic theatre is a formal category of performance.
Representations of the council estate are brought into dialogue with Contributors draw on literary studies, art history, film studies and
North American cultural products, beside cultural representations philosophy to interrogate the aesthetic outputs of theatre as much as
of social housing elsewhere in Northern Europe and South Africa, its material conditions such as funding.
to uncover the features of the British context and situate the work
globally. UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350043169 • £75.00 / $102.00
Individual eBook 9781350043176
UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus Library eBook 9781350043183
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Individual eBook 9781474285193
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Russian Theatre in Practice Principles of Augusto Boal
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The Director's Guide
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Ivo van Hove The Dramatic Text Workbook
From Shakespeare to David Bowie and Video
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A Movement Handbook for Actors with
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