The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years. Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the Postdramatic.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Typographic conventions
• A
• Activism
• Aerial art
• Aesthetic experience
• Aesthetics
• Affect
• Apparatus
• Appearance and disappearance
• Applied theatre
• Appropriation
• Art brut
• Artistic collective
• Artistic proposal
• Assemblage
• Atmosphere
• Aura
• Authenticity
• Author
• Autobiography
• Autofiction
• Autoreflexivity
• Autotheatre
• Avant-garde
• Awareness
• B
• Bizarre
• Body and corporeality
• Body art
• Border
• C
• Caress
• Choreography (and mise en scène)
• Community
• Community theatre
• Contact improvisation
• Contemporary
• Cosmopolitan theatre
• Creolization
• Cultural exception
• Cultural performance
• Curator
• Cut-up
• Cyborg
• D
• Dance-theatre
• Decentring
• Deconstruction
• Détournement
• Différance
• Disfiguration
• Disposition
• Dissemination
• Dramatic writing
• E
• Eccentricity
• Effect produced
• Ekphrasis
• Embodiment
• Empathy
• Ending
• Entertainment
• Ethics
• Ethnic theatre
• Excess
• Exoticism
• F
• Festivalization
• Figure
• Film performance
• Flash mob
• Flower
• Fold
• Freak show
• G
• Genetics
• Globalization
• Glocalization
• H
• Habitus
• Haptic
• Heightening/intensification
• Hybridity
• I
• Identity
• Immersive theatre
• Indeterminacy
• Installation
• Interactivity
• Interartistic
• Intercultural theatre
• Interpellation
• Intersubjectivity
• Intertextuality
• Intervention
• Intimacy
• In-yer-face theatre
• K
• Kairos
• Kinaesthesia
• L
• Landscape
• Language-body
• Laugh and smile
• Lecture-performance
• Life story
• Liminality
• Live art
• Live broadcasting of performance
• Live performance
• M
• Ma
• Magic (new)
• Mainstream
• Materiality
• Mediality and intermediality
• Mediation
• Minority
• Mixed-means performances
• Modernization
• Movement
• Multicultural
• Multilingual theatre
• Multimedia
• Musicalization
• N
• Narractor
• Neodramatic
• New dramaturgy
• New sites
• O
• One-to-one performance
• Orientalism
• P
• Participation
• Pathetic/pathic
• Performance
• Performance Studies
• Performative theatre
• Performative writing
• Performativity
• Philosophy and new theatre
• Poetry and theatre
• Politics and theatre
• Popular
• Postcolonial
• Postdramatic
• Postmodern theatre
• Post-performance conversation
• Posture
• Practice as research
• Pregnant moment
• Presentation/representation
• Process
• Programming
• Promenade performance
• Proprioception
• Proximization
• R
• Reconstruction
• Recording
• Recycling
• Remediation
• Rhetoric
• Risk
• S
• Satori
• Seating
• Semiology
• Sensation
• Sense of smell
• Session
• Site-specific performance
• Skin, flesh, bone
• Social drama
• Sociodrama
• Soft power
• Sonic writing
• Sound in the theatre
• Spacing
• Speaking body
• Special effects
• Spectator
• Stage-writer
• Surface
• Surtitles
• Syncretic theatre
• T
• Tactility
• Taste
• Techniques of the body
• Text
• Texture
• Theatre anthropology
• Theatre for minorities
• Theatre for tourists
• Theatre of the real
• Theatre performed in business meeting
• Theatrical effect
• Trace
• Tradition
• Trajectory
• Transgression
• Transmission
• V
• Visceral
• Visual Studies
• Visual theatre
• Vocality
• W
• Walking
• Word
• Work of art
• World theatre
• Writing aloud
• Z
• Zapping
• Bibliography
• Subject index