{"title":"Transnational Theatre Histories","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the vibrant world of Transnational Theatre Histories. Explore how theatre transcends borders and cultures, offering unique perspectives on history, performance, and society. A must-read for theatre enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"uday-shankar-and-his-transcultural-experimentations-book-urmimala-sarkar-munsi-9783030932268","title":"Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations","description":"This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer \/ choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the first half of the 20th century, and his worldwide recognition as the Ambassador of Indian culture, are brought into a historiographical perspective within the cultural and social reforms of early twentieth century India. By exploring his artistic journey beyond India in the period between the two world wars, and his experience of dance making, presentational technique and representation of India through various phases of his life, a path is forged to understanding the emergence of modernity in Indian dance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50464023249169,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50464023544081,"sku":"NGR9783030932268","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52675842474257,"sku":"NLS9783030932268","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3030932265.jpg?v=1751284789"},{"product_id":"carnival-and-power-book-vicki-ann-cremona-9783319706559","title":"Carnival and Power","description":"This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to influence, control, channel or redirect power. Focusing specifically on the Maltese islands, a tiny European archipelago situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, this work links the contrast between play and power to other Carnival realities across the world. It examines the question of power and identity in relation to different social classes and environments of Carnival play, from streets to ballrooms. It looks at satire and censorship, unbridled gaiety and controlled celebration. It describes the ways Carnival was appropriated as a power channel both by the British and their Maltese subjects, and ultimately how it was manipulated in the struggle for Malta's independence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50981151703313,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631187394833,"sku":"NGR9783319706559","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141606076689,"sku":"NLS9783319706559","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3319706551.jpg?v=1750837839"},{"product_id":"theatre-globalization-and-the-cold-war-book-christopher-b-balme-9783319480831","title":"Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War","description":"This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, but also Polish folk-dancing, documentary theatre and opera production. The contributions demonstrate that there was much more at stake and a much larger investment of ideological and economic capital than a simple dichotomy between East versus West or socialism versus capitalism might suggest. Culture, and theatrical culture in particular with its high degree of representational power, was recognized as an important medium in the ideological struggles that characterize this epoch. Most importantly, the volume explores how theatre can be reconceptualized in terms of transnational or even global processes which, it will be argued, were an integral part of Cold War rivalries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51062498427153,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51062501998865,"sku":"NIN9783319480831","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52336643899665,"sku":"NLS9783319480831","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3319480839.jpg?v=1751221116"},{"product_id":"carnival-and-power-book-vicki-ann-cremona-9783319889757","title":"Carnival and Power","description":"This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to influence, control, channel or redirect power. Focusing specifically on the Maltese islands, a tiny European archipelago situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, this work links the contrast between play and power to other Carnival realities across the world. It examines the question of power and identity in relation to different social classes and environments of Carnival play, from streets to ballrooms. It looks at satire and censorship, unbridled gaiety and controlled celebration. It describes the ways Carnival was appropriated as a power channel both by the British and their Maltese subjects, and ultimately how it was manipulated in the struggle for Malta's independence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51142605865233,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51142608552209,"sku":"NIN9783319889757","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52600087838993,"sku":"NLS9783319889757","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3319889753.jpg?v=1750806162"},{"product_id":"history-of-east-african-theatre-volume-2-book-jane-plastow-9783030877309","title":"A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2","description":"This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre in Djibouti. The chapter is particularly concerned to explore how French and Belgian cultural policies impacted theatre during the colonial period and how the French ideas of Francafrique and promotion of elite, French language art have continued to resonate in the post-colonial present. Chapters Two and Three look comparatively at the rich theatre histories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and are divided between a study of British East African colonial impact and an analysis of the post-colonial period illustrating how divergent political thought and societal make-up led to exponential differentiation in national theatres. The final chapter, on Theatre for Development and related social action theatre, covers the whole East African region, offering the first ever historicised analysis of this mode of theatre making which, since the 1980s, has come to dominate funding and opportunity in performance arts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51216499638545,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51216501670161,"sku":"NGR9783030877309","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52533271822609,"sku":"NLS9783030877309","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3030877302.jpg?v=1750837974"},{"product_id":"transatlantic-broadway-book-m-schweitzer-9781349493807","title":"Transatlantic Broadway","description":"Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52117716631825,"sku":"NGR9781349493807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52689087037713,"sku":"NLS9781349493807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53036372197649,"sku":"NIN9781349493807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781349493807.jpg?v=1757370748"},{"product_id":"history-of-east-african-theatre-volume-2-book-jane-plastow-9783030877330","title":"A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2","description":"This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre in Djibouti. The chapter is particularly concerned to explore how French and Belgian cultural policies impacted theatre during the colonial period and how the French ideas of Francafrique and promotion of elite, French language art have continued to resonate in the post-colonial present. Chapters Two and Three look comparatively at the rich theatre histories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and are divided between a study of British East African colonial impact and an analysis of the post-colonial period illustrating how divergent political thought and societal make-up led to exponential differentiation in national theatres. The final chapter, on Theatre for Development and related social action theatre, covers the whole East African region, offering the first ever historicised analysis of this mode of theatre making which, since the 1980s, has come to dominate funding and opportunity in performance arts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52128062570769,"sku":"NLS9783030877330","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030877330.jpg?v=1757489404"},{"product_id":"theatre-across-oceans-book-nic-leonhardt-9783030763572","title":"Theatre Across Oceans","description":"Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of the book is a transatlantic one, based on the active exchange in this phase between North and South America and Europe. Emanating from a rich body of archival material, the study argues that this exchange was essentially facilitated and controlled by professional theatrical mediators (agents, brokers), who have not been sufficiently researched within theatre or historical studies. The low visibility of mediators in the scientific research is in diametrical contrast to the enormous power that they possessed in the period dealt with in this book.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141873004817,"sku":"NLS9783030763572","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030763572.jpg?v=1757578516"},{"product_id":"transatlantic-broadway-book-m-schweitzer-9781137437341","title":"Transatlantic Broadway","description":"Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52148067664145,"sku":"NLS9781137437341","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781137437341.jpg?v=1757602489"},{"product_id":"colonial-public-and-the-parsi-stage-book-rashna-darius-nicholson-9783030658380","title":"The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage","description":"The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia's most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52340357333265,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52340357923089,"sku":"NLS9783030658380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030658380.jpg?v=1758170663"},{"product_id":"history-of-east-african-theatre-volume-1-book-jane-plastow-9783030472719","title":"A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1","description":"This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of the Horn of Africa. The book shows how the theatres of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, little known in the outside world, have been among the continent's most politically important, commercially successful, and widely popular; making work almost exclusively in local languages and utilizing hybrid forms that have privileged local cultural modes of production. A History of African Theatre is relevant to all who have interests in African cultures and their relationship to the history and politics of the East African region.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52408578146577,"sku":"NLS9783030472719","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030472719.jpg?v=1758774598"},{"product_id":"border-crossing-and-comedy-at-the-theatre-italien-17161723-book-matthew-j-mcmahan-9783030700737","title":"Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Theatre Italien, 17161723","description":"How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedians work? Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedians workincluding diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parodyacross time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52423618101521,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52423618986257,"sku":"NLS9783030700737","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030700737.jpg?v=1759149268"},{"product_id":"colonial-public-and-the-parsi-stage-book-rashna-darius-nicholson-9783030658359","title":"The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage","description":"The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asias most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52423821361425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52423821984017,"sku":"NLS9783030658359","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030658359.jpg?v=1759149908"},{"product_id":"uday-shankar-and-his-transcultural-experimentations-book-urmimala-sarkar-munsi-9783030932237","title":"Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations","description":"This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer \/ choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the first half of the 20th century, and his worldwide recognition as the Ambassador of Indian culture, are brought into a historiographical perspective within the cultural and social reforms of early twentieth century India. By exploring his artistic journey beyond India in the period between the two world wars, and his experience of dance making, presentational technique and representation of India through various phases of his life, a path is forged to understanding the emergence of modernity in Indian dance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52432542728465,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52432543351057,"sku":"NLS9783030932237","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030932237.jpg?v=1759175279"},{"product_id":"transnational-chinese-theatres-book-rossella-ferrari-9783030372750","title":"Transnational Chinese Theatres","description":"This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52451325837585,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52451326722321,"sku":"NLS9783030372750","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030372750.jpg?v=1759361257"},{"product_id":"border-crossing-and-comedy-at-the-theatre-italien-17161723-book-matthew-j-mcmahan-9783030700706","title":"Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Theatre Italien, 17161723","description":"How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedians work? Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedians workincluding diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parodyacross time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52476371534097,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52476372648209,"sku":"NLS9783030700706","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030700706.jpg?v=1759843953"},{"product_id":"theatre-and-music-in-manila-and-the-asia-pacific-1869-1946-book-mel-yamomo-9783319691756","title":"Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946","description":"This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental travel and worldwide communication. This allowed modern modes of theatre and music consumption to instigate the uniformization of cultural products and processes, while simultaneously fragmenting societies into distinct identities, institutions, and nascent nation-states. Taking the performing bodies of migrant musicians as the locus of sound, this book argues that the global movement of acoustic modernities was replicated and diversified through its multiple subjectivities within empire, nation, and individual agencies. It traces the arrival of European travelling music and theatre companies in Asia which re-casted listening into an act of modern culturalconsumption, and follows the migration of Manila musicians as they engaged in the modernization project of the neighboring Asian cities.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52489486139665,"sku":"NLS9783319691756","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53037362413841,"sku":"NIN9783319691756","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319691756.jpg?v=1759878741"},{"product_id":"touring-variety-in-the-asia-pacific-region-19461975-book-jonathan-bollen-9783030394134","title":"Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975","description":"Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how this happened. It explores the post-war formation of the Asia Pacific region through international touring and the transformation of entertainment during the ‘jet age’ of aviation. Drawing on archival research across the region, Bollen investigates how touring variety forged new relations between artists, audiences, and nations. Mapping tours and tracing networks by connecting fragments, he reveals how versatile artists translated repertoire in circulation as they toured, and how entrepreneurial endeavours harnessed the production of national distinction to government agendas. He argues that touring variety on commercial circuits diversified the repertoire in regional circulation, anticipating the diversity emerging in state-sanctioned multiculturalisms, and driving the government-construction of national theatres for cultural diplomacy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532789182737,"sku":"NLS9783030394134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030394134.jpg?v=1760662289"},{"product_id":"history-of-east-african-theatre-volume-1-book-jane-plastow-9783030472740","title":"A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1","description":"This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of the Horn of Africa. The book shows how the theatres of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, little known in the outside world, have been among the continent's most politically important, commercially successful, and widely popular; making work almost exclusively in local languages and utilizing hybrid forms that have privileged local cultural modes of production. A History of African Theatre is relevant to all who have interests in African cultures and their relationship to the history and politics of the East African region.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52533531967761,"sku":"NLS9783030472740","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030472740.jpg?v=1760665176"},{"product_id":"transnational-chinese-theatres-book-rossella-ferrari-9783030372729","title":"Transnational Chinese Theatres","description":"This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52533788213521,"sku":"NLS9783030372729","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030372729.jpg?v=1760666274"},{"product_id":"theatre-globalization-and-the-cold-war-book-christopher-b-balme-9783319838953","title":"Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War","description":"This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, but also Polish folk-dancing, documentary theatre and opera production. The contributions demonstrate that there was much more at stake and a much larger investment of ideological and economic capital than a simple dichotomy between East versus West or socialism versus capitalism might suggest. Culture, and theatrical culture in particular with its high degree of representational power, was recognized as an important medium in the ideological struggles that characterize this epoch. Most importantly, the volume explores how theatre can be reconceptualized in terms of transnational or even global processes which, it will be argued, were an integral part of Cold War rivalries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52537255428369,"sku":"NLS9783319838953","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783319838953.jpg?v=1760677668"},{"product_id":"theatre-across-oceans-book-nic-leonhardt-9783030763541","title":"Theatre Across Oceans","description":"Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of the book is a transatlantic one, based on the active exchange in this phase between North and South America and Europe. Emanating from a rich body of archival material, the study argues that this exchange was essentially facilitated and controlled by professional theatrical mediators (agents, brokers), who have not been sufficiently researched within theatre or historical studies. The low visibility of mediators in the scientific research is in diametrical contrast to the enormous power that they possessed in the period dealt with in this book.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52613503615249,"sku":"NLS9783030763541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030763541.jpg?v=1761518529"},{"product_id":"touring-variety-in-the-asia-pacific-region-19461975-book-jonathan-bollen-9783030394103","title":"Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 19461975","description":"Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52686887223569,"sku":"NLS9783030394103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783030394103.jpg?v=1762329117"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/transnational-theatre-histories-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}