Review
Richard Schechners work is crucial. His thoughts always renew my desire to change the world..
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, performance artist and writer, San Francisco, USAThis useful volume sets up lively possibilities for exploring the entire spectrum....an enterprising spirit that now defines performance studies..
Herbert Blau, Byron and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, USAAn appropriately broad-ranging, challenging, and provocative introduction, equally important for practicing artists as for students and scholars of the performing arts..
Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter, UKThis isnt merely the musings of a theatre director who never stops innovating. It is a global thinkers striking, historic way of understanding human nature from a surprisingly practical perspective, which can be adapted in countless areas at numerous levels..
Sun Huizhu, Professor of Drama, Shanghai Theatre Academy, JapanExactly what I have longed for. It provides linkages between concepts, gives historical perspective, and explains theoretical ideas in a language accessible to undergraduate students. It will be required reading..
Takahashi Yuichiro, Professor of Performance Studies, Dokkyo University, Japan
Product Description
This important new introductory textbook by a prime mover in the emergent field of Performance Studies is a defining moment for the discipline. It provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.