Contesting Performance, now in paperback and with a new Preface by Maaike Bleeker, is a landmark collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Aimed at students and researchers arou[...]

Masterclass: Write Great Comedy will reveal to both beginners and experienced writers the distinctive features that mark out comedy from other forms of creative writing. Having identified these, it will help you then to unlock your inner anarchist, and explore the different elements of comedy, using[...]