Books in the Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series

Pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theatre, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness Faedra Chatard Carpenter explores how artists have challenged notions of racial identity.

Investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in this work make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance. It provides case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought.

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

Reimagines the content and continuities of theatre history and exposes underlying dialogues between ""home and homelessness, belonging and exile"" - a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms ""geopathology"".

Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility. This engagingly written treatise on history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of "why theater matters", and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.

Presents a range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. This edition features sixteen essays, which are organized into nine theoretical categories.

Analyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.

Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theatre - the aesthetics of ruins.

Examines the history of acting pedagogy and performance practice in the United States, and their debts to industrial organisation and philosophy. Ranging from the late 19th century through the end of the 20th, the book recontextualizes the history of theatrical technique in light of the embrace of industrialization in US culture and society.

In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto - a representative global city in this multicultural country - stages diversity through its many intercultural theatre companies and troupes.

Placing playwright Samuel Beckett's work in important historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts, this book contains essays that demonstrate the playwright's impact on theater, performance, and visual arts during the latter half of the twentieth century.

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see--and their profound significance in the theater

How simulated experiences--from living history to emergency preparedness drills--create meaning in performance

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world

Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people.

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

Examines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new forms.

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.

Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence--from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns--and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterful