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Theatre And Series: Drama and the Wider World

Explore connections between theatre and topics in the wider world through the Theatre And series which captures the interdisciplinary energy of theatre and performance. This new collection will offer 55 books, written by leading scholars, which ask how the theatre might illuminate a topic and how that topic might illuminate theatre.

Book cover for Theatre and Empire, featuring a photo of an ampersand formed out of bullets, against a white background
Book cover for Theatre and Animals, featuring a photo of an ampersand formed out of black and white fur or animal skin.
Book cover for Theatre and Education, featuring a large ampersand in orange against a beige background
Book cover for Theatre and Disability featuring a large ampersand in burgundy against a dark blue background incorporating the International Symbol of Access which signifies a person in a wheelchair.
Book cover for Theatre and Feminism featuring a large ampersand in red with pink spots against a rusty metal background.
Book cover for Theatre and Feminism featuring a large ampersand in glowing yellow light against a cream background.

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This collection includes:

  • Theatre and Empire by Benjamin Poore - suggests how we might think of these two notions together and how we might see empire itself as theatre, exploring theatre in light of both cultural and economic imperialism.
  • Theatre and Animals by Lourdes Orozco - explores representations of animals in performance, suggesting that all animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other.
  • Theatre and Education by Helen Nicholson - provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre makers who work with young people in educational settings.
  • Theatre and Disability by Petra Kuppers - examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience.