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Theatre and the Rural
Explores the different ways in which theatre has performed the rural from the medieval to the contemporary, and examines the changing relationships between place, performance and audience when theatre is staged in rural communities.
Theatre and Empire
The historical age of empires may be over, but empire, as an idea, continues to exercise a hold over our imaginations. This examination begins with potential definitions and theories of empire, suggesting how we might think of these two notions together and how we might see empire itself as theatre.
Theatre and Interculturalism
How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?
Performance and the Global City
The book explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Contemporary European Theatre Directors
An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
Portable Borders
Sheren explores performance art and politics on the US Frontera since 1984. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century.
Presence-absence Polarity Destabilised
Review of Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield’s edited volume “Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History” (2012).
Performing Labour Relations in the Age of Austerity
The author analyses several contemporary performances as examples of artistic critique of current ideological canons and power structures governing labour relations in the globalised capitalist production.
For Space
In this book, Doreen Massey makes an impassioned argument for revitalising our imagination of space. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
Modern Pagans: An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practices
An uncensored, comprehensive guide to Pagan practices around the world today.
Trans-global readings: Crossing theatrical boundaries
Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work. Contributors: Tim Etchells, Rinde Eckert, Richard Foreman, Peter Gabriel, David Greig, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Phelim McDermott, Peter Sellars
Soya Sauce and Ketchup Fight
Extract from “Soya Sauce and Ketchup Fight” street performance intervention in Trafalgar Square by Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi artistic duo known as “Mad for Real”.
