Theatre & Performance Studies

In the two decades since the publication of the second edition of Learning Through Theatre, it has further established itself as an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners and educators interested in the complex interrelations between teaching and learning, the performing arts, and society at large. Theatre in Education (TIE) has consistently been at the cutting edge of the ever-growing field of Applied Theatre; this comprehensively revised new edition makes an international case for why, and how, it will continue to define how the participatory arts contribute to the learning of young people (and increasingly, adults) in the 21st century.

‘Robert Cohen’s book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last fourth century.’
– David Krasner, Emerson College

The first edition of Acting Power was a groundbreaking work of acting theory which applied sociological and psychological principles to actor training. The book went on to influence a generation of theater and performance studies students and academics, and was translated into five languages.

An Audio-Visual Introduction to Boal’s Forum Theatre
Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ movement went global many years ago – it is now practiced all over the world by a wide range of different groups from political activists and practitioners of political (or ‘applied’) theater to students at all levels. This major new DVD contains carefully curated footage from his many documented workshops, masterclasses and lectures.
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Herbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952, starting with ten people in a loft above a judo academy. Over the course of the next 13 years and its hundred or so productions, it introduced American audiences to plays by Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Arden, Fornes, and various unknown others.

‘One of the great stories of the American theater…, the Workshop not only built an international reputation with its daring choice of plays and nontraditional productions, it also helped launch a movement of regional, or resident, companies that would change forever how Americans thought about and consumed theater.’ – Elin Diamond, from the Introduction

‘Dr. Radosavljevic has an excellent and extensive grasp of her subject, and deep understanding of not only the history of these groups, but how they function, and how each contributes to the field of ensemble theater.’ – David Crespy, University of Missouri, USA

Questions of ensemble – what it is, how it works – are both inherent to a variety of Western theater traditions, and re-emerging and evolving in striking new ways in the twenty-first century. The Contemporary Ensemble draws together an unprecedented range of original interviews with world-renowned theater-makers in order to directly address both the former and latter concerns.

We are delighted to announce that The Heart of Teaching: Empowering Students in the Performing Arts is now available. The Heart of Teaching speaks to experienced teachers and beginning teachers in all disciplines, but is particularly relevant to those in the performing arts, from which most of its examples are drawn. It brings essential insight and honesty to the discussion of how to teach.
 

We have four new theater and performance research titles to recommend this month. If you are interested in translation, live art, dance or adaptation studies read on to find out more...

Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term oftentimes tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and culturally contingent translation of categories including body art, performance art, time-based art, and endurance art. The recent social and cultural history of the UK has involved specific factors that have crucially influenced the development of Live Art since the late 1970s. These have included issues in national cultural politics relating to sexuality, gender, disability, technology, and cultural policy.

Widely praised on first release, John Brewer's The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century has recently been reissued by Routledge. From the garrets of Grub Street to the stages of Covent Garden, the book charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to the public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens.

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Explore the Routledge portfolio of Theatre and Performance Journals with 14 days’ free online access* to all articles published in 2011 and 2012 volumes. Simply sign in or register at: www.tandfonline.com/TandP

*Online access for 14 days from activation, to all content published in 2011 and 2011 Volumes from selected journals. Voucher can only be activated once and is valid until 31/12/2013

Konstantin Stavislavski's impact on the world of acting and beyond can still be powerfully felt today, as is evident by the range of work still published on his 'system' of acting. Here we pay tribute to a great innovator by honoring the 150th Anniversary of his birth. Below you will find a range of titles that feature his life's work and provide inspiration for future generations of actors, students, academics and all those with a passion for theater.

We are offering a 20% discount on Stanislavski titles from Routledge. Just add the discount STA13 to your basket. End date 31/5/2013
 

11-12 April 2013, London

London Drama's non-residential two day Workshop-Conference: Drama Now! ~ and the Way Ahead 2013 takes place at Goldsmiths College, New Cross in partnership with Goldsmiths Centre for Arts and Learning (CAL).