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Theatre Research International , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , March 2016, pp. 97 - 100
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2016 

ATTON, CHRIS, ed., The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 594. £215 Hb.

BAKER, EVAN, From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Productions and Staging. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 464 + 189 illus. £39/$65 Hb.

BECKER, FLORIAN NIKOLAS, HERNANDEZ, PAOLA and WERTH, BRENDA, eds., Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theatre. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 326. £50/$85 Hb.

BELSEY, CATHERINE, Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing (Arden Shakespeare). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 192. £27/$42.43 Hb; £9.99/$14.20 Pb.

BENNETT, MICHAEL Y., ed., Oscar Wilde's Society Plays. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 224 + 21 illus. £57.50 Hb.

BILLINGHAM, PETER, Edward Bond: A Critical Study. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 200 + 5 illus. £50/$90 Hb.

CANNING, CHARLOTTE M., On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 328 + 10 illus. £55 Hb.

CANTRELL, TOM, Acting in Documentary Theatre. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 208. £50/$85 Hb; £18.95/$32 Pb.

CARPENTER, CHATARD FAEDRA, Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Pp. 308. $80 Hb; $34.95 Pb.

CAUSEY, MATTHEW, MEEHAN, EMMA and O’DWYER, NÉILL, eds., The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: Through the Virtual, towards the Real. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 264 + 12 illus. £55 Hb.

CERVENAK, SARAH JANE, Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 231. $23.95 Pb.

CHAMBERS, CLAIRE MARIA, EDELMAN, JOSHUA and DU TOIT, SIMON, eds., Performing Religion in Public. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 304 + 4 illus. £55/$90 Hb.

COHEN-cruz, JAN, Remapping Performance: Common Ground, Uncommon Partners. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 252 + 10 illus. £60 Hb.

CONNINGTON, BILL, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 200. £14.14/$25.95 Pb.

COUSIN, GERALDINE, Playing for Time: Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 192. £50/$85 Hb; £14.99/$24.95 Pb.

CRÉMIEUX, ANNE, LEMOINE, XAVIER and ROCCHI, JEAN-PAUL, eds., Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 292. £59.50/$90 Hb.

CROWL, SAMUEL, Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Relationship between Text and Film (Arden Shakespeare). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 176. £40.50/$78 Hb; £13.49/$25.95 Pb.

CUMMINGS, SCOTT T. and ABBITT, ERICA STEVENS, eds., The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 340 + 16 illus. £59.50/$95 Hb.

DESROCHERS, RICK, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 176. £49.50/$86.60 Hb; £16.19/$27.07 Pb.

DESROCHERS, RICK, The New Humor in the Progressive Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 208. £54.10/$72.60 Hb.

DOLAN, FRANCES E., Twelfth Night: Language and Writing. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 192. £27/$40.90 Hb; £8.99/$11.21 Pb.

DOLAN, JILL, The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism for the Stage and Screen. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 248. £50/$80 Hb; £16/$26 Pb.

DUPUIS, MARGARET and TIFFANY, GRACE, Approaches to Teaching: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2013. Pp. 248. £26.90/$34.75 Hb; £14.10/$18.75 Pb.

ELSAM, PAUL, Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 224. $29.95 Pb.

ERDMAN, HARLEY and DE garcía, SUSAN PAUN, eds., Remaking the Comedia: Spanish Classical Theatre in Adaptation. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Tamesis, 2015. Pp. 323 + 15 illus. £60 Hb.

FERRONE, SIRO and MAZZONI, STEFANO, eds., Drammaturgia XI, 1. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2014. Pp. 395. €20 Pb.

FIEBACH, JOACHIM, Welt Theater Geschichte: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Theatralen. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2015. Pp. 544. €40 Hb.

FLACKS, NIKI, Acting with Passion: A Performer's Guide to Emotions on Cue. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 184. £16.99/$29.95 Pb.

FLYNN, ALEX and TINIUS, JONAS, eds., Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 384. £55 Hb.

GILLETT, JOHN, Acting Stanislavski: A Practical Guide to Stanislavski's Approach and Legacy. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 344. £15.29/$27.66 Pb.

GOBERT, R. DARREN, The Theatre of Caryl Churchill. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 328. $86.00 Hb; $29.95 Pb.

GRITZNER, KAROLINE, Adorno and Modern Theatre: The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 208. £55 Hb.

GUTEKUNST, CHRISTINA and GILLETT, JOHN, Voice into Acting: Integrating Voice and the Stanislavski Approach (Methuen Drama). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 408. £15.29/$29.95 Pb.

HANSEN, PIL and CALLISON, DARCEY, eds., Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 224. £55 Hb.

HARGRAVE, MATT, Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad, or Plain Ugly? Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 312. £55 Hb.

HAYTER-MENZIES, GRANT, Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. 268. £18/$29 Hb.

HELLAND, FRODE, Ibsen in Practice: Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 272 + 14 illus. £18.99/$29.95 Pb; £60/$104 Hb.

HINDSON, CATHERINE, Female Performance Practice on the Fin-de-Siècle Popular Stages of London and Paris: Experiment and Advertisement. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 240. £14.99/$24 Pb.

IVERSON, KELLY R., ed., From Text to Performance: Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate (Biblical Performance Criticism). Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015. Pp. 240. $28 Pb.

JACKSON, ANTHONY and VINE, CHRIS, eds., Learning through Theatre: The Changing Face of Theatre in Education. New York: Routledge 2013 (reprint; original edition 1993). Pp. 338. £81/$130 Hb; £20/$32.95 Pb.

JAFFE-BERG, ERITH, Commedia dell’Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Travels and Mapping ‘Others’. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 184 + 9 illus. £54 Hb.

KELLEHER, JOE, The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 208 + 7 illus. £89 Hb.

KIM, YU YON, The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Everyday. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Pp. 304 + 6 illus. $28 Pb.

LAVERY, CARL, The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. 272. £56/$90 Hb.

LEHMAN, SUSAN BETH, Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again. Chicago: Intellect, 2013. Pp. 177. £18.70/$30 Pb.

LENNOX, PATRICIA and MIRABELLA, BELLA, eds., Shakespeare and Costume (Arden Shakespeare). London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. 312 + 20 illus. £65/$112 Hb.

LO, SHIH-LUNG, La Chine sur la scène francaise au XIX siècle. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015. Pp. 216 + 47 illus. €17 Pb.

LUCKHURST, MARY and MORIN, EMILIE, eds., Theatre and Human Rights after 1945. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 270. £60 Hb.

MCCORMACK, DEREK P., Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 280 + 17 illus. £42.70/$72 Hb; £11.86/$20 Pb.

MCDANIEL, L. BAILEY, (Re)constructing Material Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 240. £55/$85 Hb.

MACHON, JOSEPHINE, Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 344. £53/$85 Hb; £18.70/$30 Pb.

MAGNAT, VIRGINIE, Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance: Meetings with Remarkable Women. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 244. £78/$125 Hb.

MAGUIRE, LAURIE, Othello: Language and Writing (Arden Shakespeare). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 232. £27/$42.70 Hb; £8.99/$14.05 Pb.

MANGAN, MICHAEL, The Drama, Theatre, and Performance Companion (Palgrave Student Companion Series). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 376. £19.95/$32 Pb.

MARTIN, CAROL, Theatre of the Real. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (first published 2012). Pp. 214. £18.99 Pb.

MATTHEWS, JOHN, Anatomy of Performance Training. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 224. $206 Hb; $42.95 Pb.

MITRA, ROYONA, Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 216. £55 Hb.

MOLINA, TIRSO DE, Amar por arte mayor. Ed. SANTO-TOMÁS, ENRIQUE GARCÍA. New York and Madrid: Pamplona: Instituto de Espudios Tirsianos, 2015. Pp. 176. Price unknown Hb.

MURRAY, CHRISTOPHER, The Theatre of Brian Friel. London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2014. Pp. 312. £56.53/$104 Hb; £17.34/$32.95 Pb.

NICHOLSON, STEVE, The Censorship of British Drama 1900–1968, Vol. IV: The Sixties. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 368. $110 Hb.

NIELSEN, LARA D. and YBARRA, PATRICIA, eds., Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (first published 2012). Pp. 334. £18.99 Pb.

ORLIN, LENA COWEN, ed., Othello: The State of Play (Arden Shakespeare). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 304. £48.21/$70.48 Hb; £15.57/$25.60 Pb.

OROZCO, LOURDES and PARKER-STARBUCK, JEN, eds., Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practice. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 240. £55 Hb.

OVADIJA, MLADEN, Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-Garde and Postdramatic Theatre. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. 264. £59/$95 Hb.

PARKER, STEPHEN, Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life. London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2014. Pp. 704. £27/$29.78 Hb.

PERNIN, JUDITH, Pratiques indépendantes du documentaire en Chine: Histoire, esthétique et discours visuels (1990–2010). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015. Pp. 290 + 30 illus. €19 Pb.

PICART, CAROLINE JOAN S., Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 244 + 6 illus. £57.50/$95 Hb.

PROUDFIT, SCOTT and SYSSOYEVA, KATHRYN MEDEROS, eds., Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 256. £55/$85 Hb.

RADOSAVLJEVIĆ, DUŠKA, Theatre-Making: Interplay between Text and Performance in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 288. £53/$85 Hb; £17.45/$28 Pb.

REYNOLDS, JAMES and SMITH, ANDY W., eds., Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. Pp. 288. £18.99 Pb.

RIDOUT, NICHOLAS, Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. £32.60/$55 Hb.

RODENBURG, PATSY, The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer. London, Methuen, 2014. Pp. 416. £16.99/$29.95 Pb.

RODENBURG, PATSY, The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice, 2nd edn.London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015. Pp. 312. £17.99 Pb.

RODOSTHENOUS, GEORGE, ed., Theatre as Voyeurism: The Pleasures of Watching. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 242. £55 Hb.

ROYSTON, DARREN, Dramatic Dance. London and New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014. Pp. 336. £14.99/$25.95 Pb.

ROZNOWSKI, ROB, Inner Monologue in Acting. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 236. £57.50/$90 Hb; £20/$27 Pb.

SEMLER, LIAM E., Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe: Learning versus the System (Arden Shakespeare). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 168. £11.69/$22.95 Pb.

SENELICK, LAWRENCE, Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters. New York: Routledge, 2013. Pp. 656 + 16 illus. £100/$160 Hb; £24.99/$39.95 Pb.

SHAUGHNESSY, NICOLA, ed., Affective Performance and Cognitive Science: Body, Brain and Being (Methuen Drama). New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 320 + 2 illus. £67.50/$140 Hb; £22.49/$42.95 Pb.

SOTO-MORETTINI, DONNA, Popular Singing and Style. 2nd edn.London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 280. $27.95 Pb.

STEPHENS, MICHELLE ANN, Skin Acts. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 328. £15.99/$24.95 Pb; £59/$89.95 Hb.

STEPHENS, SIMON, Pornography (Methuen Drama). Student edn, ed. BOLTON, JACQUELINE. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 152. £8.99/$17.95 Pb.

STERN, TOM, Philosophy and Theatre: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 210. £65/$120 Hb; £19.99/$34.95 Pb.

STUBBS, NAOMI J., Cultivating National Identity through Performance: American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 192 + 15 illus. £55/$85 Hb.

THOMPSON, ANN, Macbeth: The State of Play (Arden Shakespeare). London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 312. £16.99/$24.95 Pb; £50/$75 Hb.

TIDMARSH, ANDREW, Genre. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 112. £12.99/$22.95 Pb.

TOPORKOV, VASILI, Stanislavski in Rehearsal. London: Methuen, 2008. Pp. 176. £13.99/$22.95 Pb.

VANGER LUGT, WESLEY and HART, TREVOR, eds., Theatrical Theology: Explorations in Performing the Faith. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015. Pp. 298. $34 Pb.

VAUGHAN, VIRGINIA MASON and VAUGHAN, ALDEN T., eds., The Tempest: A Critical Reader. London and New York: Bloomsbury. Pp. 296. $104 Hb; $29.95 Pb.

VISNIEC, MATÉI, How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays, ed. by KOMPORALY, JOZEFINA. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 504 +24 illus. $45 Pb.

WEISS, KATHERINE, ed., A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. 296. £50/$86 Hb; £16.99/$29.95 Pb.

WHATLEY, SARAH, BROWN, NATALIE GARRETT and ALEXANDER, KIRSTY, eds., Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives of Living in This World. Axminster: Triarchy Press, 2015. Pp. 300. £25 Pb.

WHITE, R. ANDREW, ed., The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 348. £140/$225 Hb.

WILMER, STEPHEN ELLIOT and ŽUKAUSKAUTE, AUDRONE, eds., Deleuze and Beckett. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 266. £55 Hb.

WITHAM, BARRY, A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 204. £50/$80 Hb.

ZAROULIA, MARILENA and HAGER, PHILIP, eds., Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 280. £55 Hb.