The Dramaturgy of the Real brings together an incredible range of international theatre thinking, plays and performance texts, many published here for the first

This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations

Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realitie

‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors e

This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights