The Routledge companion to theatre and performance / [edited by] Paul Allain and 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 twentieth century, and, importantly, where are they heading next? Proposing answers to these big questions, The Routledge Compan...

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Other Authors: Allain, Paul (Editor), Harvie, Jen (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. People
  • Abramovic, Marina
  • Anderson, Laurie
  • Artaud, Antonin
  • Bakhtin, Mikhail
  • Barba, Eugenio
  • Bausch, Pina and the Wuppertal Dance Theatre
  • Bharucha, Rustom
  • Boal, Augusto
  • Bread and Puppet Theatre
  • Brecht, Bertold
  • Brook, Peter
  • Butler, Judith
  • Cage, John
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude
  • Cixous, H¿l¿ne
  • Copeau, Jacques
  • Craig, Edward Gordon
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Goffman, Erving
  • Gomez-Pena, Guillermo
  • Grotowski, Jerzy
  • Hijikata, Tatsumi
  • Jean-Claude, see Christo and Jeanne-Claude
  • Kantor, Tadeusz
  • Laban, Rudolf von
  • Lecoq, Jacques
  • Lepage, Robert
  • Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Las
  • Market Theatre
  • Meyerhold, Vsevolod
  • Orlan
  • Phelan, Peggy
  • Schechner, Richard
  • Sistren
  • Soyinka, Wole
  • Split Britches
  • Sprinkle, Annie
  • Stanislavsky, Konstantin
  • Stelarc
  • Suzuki, Tadashi
  • Turner, Victor
  • Wilson, Robert
  • Wooster Group, The
  • Wuppertal Dance Theatre, see Bausch, Pina and the Wuppertal
  • Dance Theatre
  • Zeami, Motokiyo
  • Part II. Events
  • Balinese dance-theatre
  • Cabaret Voltaire
  • Cherry Orchard, The
  • Constant Prince, The
  • Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me
  • Dead Class, The
  • Dionysus in 69
  • Einstein on the Beach
  • Government Inspector, The
  • Gulf War, the
  • Haka
  • Holocaust memorials and museums
  • Lady Diana?s funeral
  • Mahabharata,The
  • Mother Courage
  • Olympics, the
  • Paradise Now
  • Raves
  • Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, The
  • Route 1 & 9 (The Last Act)
  • Sports
  • Temple of Confessions, The
  • Tiananmen Square demonstrations
  • Trio A
  • Ubu Roi
  • Waiting for Godot
  • Yaqui Lent and Easter ceremonies
  • Part III. Concepts and Practices
  • Acting
  • Animals
  • Asian performance
  • Audience and spectator
  • Body adornment, see Masking /body adornment
  • Body art
  • Butoh
  • Camp
  • Carnival
  • Circus
  • Dada and surrealism
  • Dance
  • Demonstrations, see Protests, demonstrations and parades
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Environmental theatre and site-specific performance
  • Everyday life
  • Expressionism
  • Feminism
  • Festivals
  • Futurism
  • Happenings
  • Historiography
  • Improvisation
  • Installation art
  • Interculturalism
  • Internet, the
  • Lighting and sound
  • Liveness
  • Live art, see Performance art /live art
  • Masking /Body adornment
  • Mise en sc¿ne
  • Movement
  • Multimedia performance
  • Museum display
  • Music, theatre and performance
  • Naturalism and realism
  • Parades, see Protests, demonstrations and parades
  • Paratheatre
  • Performance /performing
  • Performance artlive art
  • Performative /performativity
  • Phenomenology
  • Play
  • Popular theatre
  • Postmodernism
  • Presence
  • Protests, demonstrations and parades
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Puppetry
  • Realism, see Naturalism and realism
  • Rehearsal
  • Ritual
  • Scenography
  • Semiotics
  • Site-specific performance, see Environmental theatre and
  • site-specific performance
  • Sound, see Lighting and sound
  • Space
  • Spectator, see Audience and spectator
  • Surrealism, see Dada and surrealism
  • Theatre
  • Theatre anthropology
  • Theatre of images, see Visual theatre and theatre of images
  • Theatre of the oppressed
  • Training
  • Visual theatre and theatre of images
  • A chronology of world /performance events, births and deaths.
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