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1. Theatre of the Oppressed in Actions

   An Audio-Visual Introduction to Boal’s Forum Theatre
   Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ movement went global many years ago – it is now practiced all over the world by a wide range of different groups from political activists and practitioners of political (or ‘applied’) theater to students at all levels. This major new DVD contains carefully curated footage from his many documented workshops, masterclasses and lectures.
   Order your copy.

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   Learning Through Theatre, 3rd Edition

   In the two decades since the publication of the second edition of Learning Through Theatre, it has further established itself as an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners and educators interested in the complex interrelations between teaching and learning, the performing arts, and society at large. Theatre in Education (TIE) has consistently been at the cutting edge of the ever-growing field of Applied Theatre; this comprehensively revised new edition makes an international case for why, and how, it will continue to define how the participatory arts contribute to the learning of young people (and increasingly, adults) in the 21st century.

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   New Research Titles from Routledge

   We have four new theater and performance research titles to recommend this month. If you are interested in translation, live art, dance or adaptation studies read on to find out more...

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   Recently Reissued: The Pleasures of the Imagination

   Widely praised on first release, John Brewer's The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century has recently been reissued by Routledge. From the garrets of Grub Street to the stages of Covent Garden, the book charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to the public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens.

   Click here to be transported!

5. 

   Celebrate Stanislavski’s 150th Anniversary with Routledge

   Konstantin Stavislavski's impact on the world of acting and beyond can still be powerfully felt today, as is evident by the range of work still published on his 'system' of acting. Here we pay tribute to a great innovator by honoring the 150th Anniversary of his birth. Below you will find a range of titles that feature his life's work and provide inspiration for future generations of actors, students, academics and all those with a passion for theater.

   We are offering a 20% discount on Stanislavski titles from Routledge. Just add the discount STA13 to your basket. End date 31/5/2013
    

6. 

   Drama Now Conference

   11-12 April 2013, London

   London Drama's non-residential two day Workshop-Conference: Drama Now! ~ and the Way Ahead 2013 takes place at Goldsmiths College, New Cross in partnership with Goldsmiths Centre for Arts and Learning (CAL).

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   Critical Live Art

   Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term oftentimes tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and culturally contingent translation of categories including body art, performance art, time-based art, and endurance art. The recent social and cultural history of the UK has involved specific factors that have crucially influenced the development of Live Art since the late 1970s. These have included issues in national cultural politics relating to sexuality, gender, disability, technology, and cultural policy.

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   The Contemporary Ensemble

   ‘Dr. Radosavljevic has an excellent and extensive grasp of her subject, and deep understanding of not only the history of these groups, but how they function, and how each contributes to the field of ensemble theater.’ – David Crespy, University of Missouri, USA

   Questions of ensemble – what it is, how it works – are both inherent to a variety of Western theater traditions, and re-emerging and evolving in striking new ways in the twenty-first century. The Contemporary Ensemble draws together an unprecedented range of original interviews with world-renowned theater-makers in order to directly address both the former and latter concerns.

9. Preserving Dance Across Time and Space - Now Available

   Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past.

10. Theatre Translation in Performance - Now Available

    The current debate has shown a growing tendency to downplay and challenge the notion of translational accuracy in favor of a recreational and post-dramatic attitude, underlying the role of the director and playwright instead. This book discusses the delicate balance between translating and directing from an intercultural, semiotic, aesthetic, and interlingual perspective, taking a critical stance on approaches that belittle translation for the theater or equate it to an editorial practice focused on literality.