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  • The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Loren Kruger ...
    Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.?A series of major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust. These ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Mise en Scène

    Staging Theatre Today

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Joel Anderson ...
    ‘We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.’ – Patrice Pavis, from the forewordContemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Performing Korea

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an exploration of the intersection of Korean theatre practice with Western literary theatre. Gangnam Style, K-Pop, the Korean Wave : who hasn't heard of these recent Korean phenomena? Having spent two years in Korea as a theatrical and cultural ‘tourist’, Patrice Pavis was granted an unparalleled look at contemporary Korean culture. As well as analyzing these pop culture mainstays ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Directors’ Theatre

    by Edith Cassiers, Timmy De Laet, Patrice Pavis, Duska Radosavljevic, Katalin Trencsényi, Luk Van den Dries ...
    Series series Modern Dramatists
    This extended new edition of a seminal text marks the 30th anniversary of the original book's major intervention in the discipline. Bradby and Williams' field-defining book introduced the continental-European approach to directing, recognising the work of the modern stage director as an artist in his or her own right for the first time. Now edited by Peter M. Boenisch in collaboration with David ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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