Books by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Examines selected contemporary plays that represent a merging of theatrical form and scientific content - plays in which the science is literally enacted through the structure and performance of the play. This book traces the history of how scientific ideas (quantum mechanics and fractals, for example) are dealt with in theatrical presentations.

Focusing on four of Ibsen's plays and their reception in England and France in the 1890s, this text explores his contribution to the radical artistic movements of this period. As an exponent of the international "new wave", Ibsen is taken as a case study of modernist theatre in theory and practice.