Simon Shepherd, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
Cabaret
Pageant
William Grange, University of Nebraska, USA Where did cabaret come from? What has it got to do with pre-war Berlin, decadent society and Nazis? Is cabaret a primary vehicle for exploring the range of sexual practices and alternative sexual identities? William Grange gathers into one place for the first time the range of practices now associated with the form of cabaret. Arranged chronologically and featuring case studies of practice from Berlin, the UK, Canada, Australia, the United States, South Africa and Singapore, this book guides readers through cabaret's golden age in the 1920s to the present day. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 192 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350140257 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350140264 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350140271 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350140288 • £13.49 / $17.24 Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama
Joan FitzPatrick Dean, University of MissouriKansas City, USA Grounded in theatre history, this is the first guide to explore pageantry as a dramatic form. Featuring case study examples from the middle ages, early 20th century and the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, it equips students with a thorough understanding of the dramatic form. Theatrical pageants are intimately connected with power. The case studies provide examples of the ways in which pageants have been used to advocate for women’s suffrage and the expansion of the franchise and in more recent times to create traditions to promote the culture and values of nations. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 192 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350144514 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350144521 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350144538 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350144545 • £13.49 / $17.24 Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama
Satire
Tragicomedy
Joel Schechter, San Francisco State University, USA
Brean Hammond, University of Nottingham, UK This short authoritative book provides an overview of the origins, characteristics and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. Case studies explore some of the key English and Irish playwrights associated with the form - including John Marston, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare and John Dryden, and 20th century dramatists Pinter and Beckett, besides the influence of Italian, Spanish and French playwrights. Hammond charts the changing use of the form and how having always been a religious form, in the 20th century it is revived to serve the needs of audiences who have lost their political, moral and religious bearings.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 192 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350140073 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350140080 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350140097 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350140103 • £13.49 / $17.24 Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 160 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350144309 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350144316 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350144323 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350144330 • £13.49 / $17.24 Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama
Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
– Theatre History & Criticism
How has satire been used by theatre artists and what have its targets been? How has its form and function changed in different ages? Joel Schechter reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens. Arranged chronologically, it reveals how writers and artists from Aristophanes to the 18th-century plays of John Gay and Henry Fielding, to the creations of Joan Littlewood, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevelod Meyerhold, Erika Mann, Brendan Behan and Dario Fo, have all prompted audiences to laugh at corruption, greed, injustice and abusive authority.
DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Forms of Drama
John Lutterbie, Stony Brook University, USA and Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK
Performance, Medicine and the Human Alex Mermikides, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK
This book explores parallels between performance and medicine. Its rationale is that performance and medicine share a number of concerns including questions of corporeality, subjectivity, identity and embodiment; and both individual and social responses to health, illness and the advances of biomedical knowledge and technologies. Above all, though, performance and medicine share an engagement with the human, at a time when the ‘concept of the human’ is ‘exploded’ (Braidotti, 2013).The study is illustrated with first-hand accounts of hospital wards, operating theatre, laboratories, rehearsal rooms, theatre auditoria and stages. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781350235991 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350022157 ePub 9781350022164 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350022171 • £67.50 / $83.76 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama
Performing Specimens
Contemporary Performance And Biomedical Display Gianna Bouchard, University of Birmingham, UK Through an examination of selected performance and theatre works that turn the performer’s body or another’s body into a specimen, this book maps out the relations between these performative acts and medical practices of collecting, storing and showing specimens in a variety of modes and contexts. Moving from an examination of the medical and historical contexts of specimen display in the museum and the anatomy theatre to contemporary performance, the book engages with examples from live art, bio-art, popular culture and theatre since the year 2000. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 192 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350228153 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350035676 ePub 9781350035683 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350035690 • £67.50 / $83.76 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama
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