The Book Company: New Products - Performance

The Art of Sensorial Language

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:18:58 +0000

The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interaction, multisensory experiences that can be understood internationally and cross-culturally.

Price: $233.99

Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:15:28 +0000

This Reader features extracts from primary texts by key practitioners of physical theatre – a term covering various forms of non-text-based theatre, ranging from experimental and visually-orientated performance to mime and masked theatre.

Price: $233.99

Loving Big Brother (Surveillance Culture and Performance Space)

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:34:01 +0000

This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space – somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand.

Price: $233.99

Achalāyatan, Where Time Stood Still (A Play by Rabindranath Tagore)

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:13:56 +0000

This annotated translation brings Rabindranath Tagore's 1911 Bangla play Achalāyatan to contemporary global audiences, following a young rebel challenging a thousand-year-old monastic institution's stagnation, exploring how organizations lose sight of their founding purpose through insti..

Price: $233.99

Leigh Bowery: Complete Looks

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:26:47 +0000

Six years, one radical vision. When Leigh Bowery was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, he turned to Fergus Greer to help document and catalog his unforgettable looks. What followed was an extraordinary six-year collaboration—an intense creative partnershi..

Price: $100.00

Shakespeare speaks Persian (Adaptation and performance in contemporary Iranian theatre)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:51:39 +0000

Shakespeare speaks Persian explores how contemporary Iranian theatre adapts Shakespeare to engage with censorship, political authority and cultural regulation. Focusing on twenty-first-century productions, the book examines how Iranian playwrights and theatre-makers transform Shakespeare’s works i..

Price: $130.00

Voice Studies (Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:09:36 +0000

Voice Studies brings together leading international scholars and practitioners, to re-examine what voice is, what voice does, and what we mean by "voice studies" in the process and experience of performance. This dynamic and interdisciplinary publication draws on a broad range of appro..

Price: $233.99

Unmarked (The Politics of Performance)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:58:48 +0000

Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film and theatre.

Price: $280.00

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:51:22 +0000

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives, and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers, and pra..

Price: $233.99

Performing Remains (Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:41:35 +0000

Performing Remains is a collection of essays from one of Performance Studies' leading scholars, exploring the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary theatre. Divided into seven essays, this book examines both contemporary and historical performance with a wide..

Price: $249.99