Theatre Studies

A global history of theatre and performance as a history of architecture and technology including case studies on Babylonia, Europe, China, and Japan.

The world's leading practitioners of postdramatic theatre offer an insider perspective of their artistic thinking and methods.

How to activate diversity in motion in performing arts? The book offers a fairness-based cultural policy perspective for the performing arts field.

Emerging Affinities connects disciplines and discourses to investigate the future of performative forms.

Aesthetic dimensions of energetic processes. Theoretical, analytic and critical approaches to dance, theatre and performance in dialogue.

Theatre is a mirror of society; artists are seismographs in processes of transformation. The book is based on a research about Cultural Policy in post-apartheid South Africa.

What about the state of independent theatre? A reflection about the last 20 years – and agile insights in heterogeneous european productions.

Hula `Olapa, a performance tradition of Hawaii, shapes and transmits oral history via a distinct set of performative means of framing and stylization.

With a rich history of conflicts, a society full of contrasts, Lebanon presents a theater not less fascinating with its wide spectrum of social peculiarities. Confessionalism, which crystallizes to a key concept in the social balance as well as its misbalance, defines the images of the »self« and of the »other« within the Christian and Moslem social worlds and in the manner they interrelate with each other. It also generates a complex base for the interpretation of theatrical signs and symbols, theater being another stage for interaction between two conflicting social worlds. This book sheds a light on theater in Lebanon, its production and reception, the significance of theatrical performance and its implications, and the many categories ruling this phenomenon.