A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

The Secret Art of the Performer

By Eugenio Barba, Nicola Savarese

Published December 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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Theatre, Body and Pleasure

By Simon Shepherd

Breaking new ground in the study of performance theory, this maverick and powerful project from renowned Renaissance scholar and queer theorist Simon Shepherd presents a...

Published November 15th 2005 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

By Paul Allain, Jen Harvie

What is theatre? What is performance? What are their connections and differences? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the...

Published November 3rd 2005 by Routledge.

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Upstaged

Making Theatre in a Media Age

By Anne Nicholson Weber

How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television?

Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner,...

Published October 27th 2005 by Theatre Arts Book.

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Mama Dada

Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre

By Sarah Bay-Cheng

Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatric and cinematic avant-gardes. It explores her development of...

Published September 29th 2005 by Routledge.

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To Be a Playwright

By Janet Neipris

Chair of the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program and mentor to such theatre figures as Neil LaBute, Kenneth Lonergan,...

Published September 28th 2005 by Theatre Arts Book.

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The High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide

By Raina S. Ames

High school theatre programs are vigorous and growing, but many theatre teachers - drawn from English, speech, or other departments - lack degrees in theatre....

Published September 22nd 2005 by Theatre Arts Book.

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Baakisimba

Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda

By Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967,...

Published August 30th 2005 by Routledge.

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Circus Bodies

Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

By Peta Tait

This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.

Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait...

Published August 25th 2005 by Routledge.

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The Mayor of Queensborough, or Hengist King of Kent

By Thomas Middleton Edited by Howard Marchitello

Saxon England provides the setting for this powerful political drama in which a disturbing story of sexual obsession is paralleled by a vibrantly comic sub-plot....

Published August 17th 2005 by Theatre Arts Book.

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