Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance

<p>This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts practitioners and trends within theatre-making both in particular countries and across borders that are shaping European stage practice. </p><p>With the geography geopolitics and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge this is a collection of carefully curated interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. </p><p><em>The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance</em> gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.</p>