This book moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the diverse and interrelated concerns required of higher-level study.

Table of Contents

• List of figures
• List of tables
• Author's preface
• Editors’ preface
• Prologue: Is everything theatre?
• PART I Central concepts of theatre and performance research
• 1 The concept of theatre
• 2 The history of the discipline
• 3 The concept of performance
• PART II Methodologies
• Methodologies Preface
• 4 Performance analysis
• 5 Theatre historiography
• 6 Theorizing theatre and performance
• PART III Pushing boundaries
• Pushing Boundaries Preface
• 7 Interweaving performance cultures
• 8 Performing the arts
• 9 Cultural performances
• Epilogue: Not everything is theatre
• Bibliography