The Art Gallery on Stageis the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the c... more

This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences’ frustration ... more

translation of Artaud’s canonical text by Mark Taylor-Batty retains the idiosyncratic nature of the author’s writing...... more

A collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with -... more

How is decadence being staged today - as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? W... more

None of the Indian theatre-makers consciously built their works on the Euro-American model of the po... more

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK ... more

This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and co... more

As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the prese... more

Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster ... more

Over 20 years on from artistic director Thomas Ostermeier’s time at Berlin’s Schaubühne Theatre, int... more

This book revisits Hans-Thies Lehmann’s theory of the postdramatic and participates in the ongoing d... more

This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and co... more

To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultur... more

Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural, and, inevitab... more

Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster ... more

What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers’ provocations ... more

On the 20th anniversary of artistic director Thomas Ostermeier’s time at Berlin’s Schaubühne Theatre... more

This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of ... more

Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary ... more

To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultur... more

The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief’s theatre wor... more

What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers’ provocations ... more

Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind of another? Why do contemporary practiti... more

The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: i... more

The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre si... more

The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre si... more

Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of t... more

, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation....... more

, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation....... more

"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political c... more

"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political c... more

Postmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising - one that combines the well-worn postmodern aes... more

The first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kane’s approach to mind and mental health; i... more

Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such ... more

translation of Artaud’s canonical text by Mark Taylor-Batty retains the idiosyncratic nature of the author’s writing...... more

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare s King Lear or Sarah Kane s Blasted, to the adaptation o... more

Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British t... more

Roger Blin s career in the Arts was woven inextricably into the fabric of the Twentieth-Century Fren... more