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Cover of Mechele (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, University of Kansas, USA) Leon: A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment

Mechele (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, University of Kansas, USA) Leon: A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, ”the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the p …

Cover of Professor Loren Kruger: A Century of South African Theatre

Professor Loren Kruger: A Century of South African Theatre

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla”s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African …

Cover of Guy Cools & Professor Christel Stalpaert: The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel''s les ballets C de la B

Guy Cools & Professor Christel Stalpaert: The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel”s les ballets C de la B

Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic …

Cover of Dr Alex (King's College London, UK) Mermikides: Performance, Medicine and the Human

Dr Alex (King’s College London, UK) Mermikides: Performance, Medicine and the Human

Performance and medicine are now converging in unprecedented ways. London”s theatres reveal an appetite for medical themes – John Boyega is subjected to medical experiments in Jack Thorne”s Woycek, …

Cover of Corey Wakeling: Beckett''s Laboratory

Corey Wakeling: Beckett”s Laboratory

Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett”s Laboratory reconsiders Beckett”s …

Cover of Caridad Svich: Toward a Future Theatre

Caridad Svich: Toward a Future Theatre

Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies and t …

Cover of Dr Jami Rogers: British Black and Asian Shakespeareans

Dr Jami Rogers: British Black and Asian Shakespeareans

Shakespeare is at the heart of the British theatrical tradition, but the contribution of Ira Aldridge and the Shakespearean performers of African, African-Caribbean, south Asian and east Asian herita …

Cover of Matthew Kaiser: A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire

Matthew Kaiser: A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the man …

Cover of Jackie Lubeck: To The Good People of Gaza

Jackie Lubeck: To The Good People of Gaza

The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together nineteen plays produced by Theatre Day Productions, one of the foremost community t …

Cover of Mojisola Adebayo & Travis Alabanza: Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre

Mojisola Adebayo & Travis Alabanza: Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre

A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from Black British perspectives, this anthology contains seven radical plays by Black writ …