PECI3703
Module Reading List

General Reading

This is an indicative list. Your supervising tutor will provide you with additional texts as appropriate to your chosen project.

Adshead, J (eds) (1986), Choreography : principles and practice : report of the fourth study of dance conference, University of Surrey, 4-7 April 1986, University of Surrey

Auslander, P. (1997), From acting to performance : essays in modernism and postmodernism, London: Routledge

Baugh, C (2005) Theatre performance and technology : the development of scenography in the twentieth century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan

Blom, L A & L T Chaplin (1982), The intimate act of choreography, University of Pittsburgh

Blom, L A & L T Chaplin (1988), A movement of movements : is another world really possible?, Dance Books Ltd

Brown, R (2010) Sound : a reader in theatre practice Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Braun, E. (1982), The director and the stage : from Naturalism to Grotowski, London: Methuen

Campbell, P. (ed.) (1996), Analysing Performance, Manchester: MUP

Carlson, M. (1997), Performance, a critical introduction, London: Routledge

Chong, D (2002) Arts management, Routledge, London

Cohen, S J (1982), Next week, Swan Lake : reflections on dance and dances, Wesleyan University Press

Counsell, C. (1996), Signs of performance : an introduction to twentieth-century theatre, London: Routledge

Davis, T (2001) Stage design Crans-Pres-Celigny; Hove: RotoVision.

Davis, H, Scase, R (2000) Managing creativity : the dynamics of work and organization. Buckingham : Open University Press

Fortier, M (1997) Theory/theatre : an introduction, 2nd edition, London: Routledge

Goldberg, R. (1988), Performance Art, London: Thames & Hudson

Govan, E & Nicholson, H. (2007) Making a performance : devising histories and contemporary practices, London: Routledge

Graham, S. & Hoggett,S.(2009) The Frantic Assembly book of devising theatre, London: Routledge

Heathfield, A. (2004), Live : art and performance, London: Tate Publishing

Heddon, D and Milling, J (2006) Devising performance : a critical history, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Hodge, A. (2000), Twentieth century actor training, London: Routledge

Howard, P (2009), What is scenography? (2nd edition) Routledge

Kaye, N. (1994), Postmodernism and performance London: Macmillan

Kennedy, D (2001), Looking at Shakespeare : a visual history of twentieth-century performance Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Kershaw, B (1992) The politics of performance : radical theatre as cultural intervention, Routledge

Kreemer, C (1987), Further steps : fifteen choreographers on modern dance, Harper & Roe

Lehmann, H.T. (2006) Postdramatic theatre, London:Routledge

Marty, Paulette (2019), Contemporary Women Stage Directors, London, New York, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

McAuley, G (1999) Space in performance : making meaning in the theatre, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

McFee, G (1992), Understanding dance, London: Routledge

McKinney, J. & Butterworth, P. (2009) The Cambridge introduction to scenography Cambridge University Press

Mermikide, A & Smart, J (eds) (2010) Devising in process, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Mitchell, K (2008) The director's craft : a handbook for the theatre, London:Routledge

O'Grady, Alice (2017), Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice: Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World, Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan  

Palmer, R.H. (1994) The Lighting Art The Aesthetics of Stage Lighting Design (2nd edition) Eaglewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall

Palmer, S (2000) Essential guide to stage management, lighting and sound, London: Hodder & Stoughton

Pavis, P (2003) Analyzing performance : theater, dance, and film, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Read, A (1993), Theatre and everyday life : an ethics of performance, London: Routledge

Roose-Evans, J. (1989), Experimental theatre from Stanislavsky to today, London: Routledge

Schechner, R. (1988), Performance Theory, London: Routledge

Schechner, R. (1994) (revised) Environmental theater New York: Applause

Shomit, M. (1992), Systems of rehearsal : Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Brook, London: Routledge

Sidiropoulou, Avra ( 2011), Authoring performance : the director in contemporary theatre Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Sidiropoulou, Avra ( 2018), Directions for directing : theatre and method ISBN: 9780415789271 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415789288 (paperback : alk. paper); 9781315222905 (ebook), Abingdon/New York: Routledge.  

States, B O (1985), Great reckonings in little rooms : on the phenomenology of theatre, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press

Tufnell, M & C Chrickman (1990), Body space image : notes towards improvisation and performance, Virago Extract available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE

Williams, D(1999) Collaborative theatre : the Théâtre du Soleil sourcebook London: Routledge

Whitmore, J. (1994), Directing postmodern theater : shaping signification in performance, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Zarrilli, P. (ed.) (1995), Acting Re-Considered, London: Routledge

This list was last updated on 01/11/2019