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  • Dramaturgies of Interweaving

    Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for ... Read more

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  • Global Ibsen

    Performing Multiple Modernities

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy, they were performed in Europe, North America, and Australia, contributing greatly to the theater, ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies

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  • Unsettling Translation

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