• ISBN13: 9781137355775
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publisher Imprint: Palgrave
• Publication Date: October 2, 2014
• Pages: 100
• Original Price: USD 10.95
• Language: English
• Edition: 2014
• Item Weight: 77 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Theater / History & Criticism

From the Back Cover
Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts?

This question opens up a rich seam of provocative and original thinking about the uses of new media in theatre, about new forms of cultural practice and artistic innovation, and about the widening purposes of the theatre's cultural project in a changing digital world. Through detailed case-studies on the work of key international theatre companies such as the Elevator Repair Service and The Mission Business, Bill Blake explores how the digital is providing new scope for how we think about the theatre, as well as how the theatre in turn is challenging how we might relate to the digital.

Alvarez, Natalie: - Natalie Alvarez is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and Associate Dean of Scholarly, Research, and Creative Activities in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of four award-winning books including Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas (2019) and Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, War, Performance (2018).

Blake, Bill: - Bill Blake is Assistant Professor and Director of the Program in Dramatic Literature at New York University, USA.

Laera, Margherita: - Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, where she serves as Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Architecture. She is the author of Playwriting in Europe: Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi (Routledge Focus, 2022); Theatre & Translation (Methuen Drama, 2019) and Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (Peter Lang, 2013), and editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Methuen Drama, 2014). Margherita also works as a theatre translator from and into Italian and English. She is co-editor of the 'Theatre &' book series for Methuen Drama, and founder of Performing International Plays, an organization promoting theatre (in) translation in secondary schools.