This book is intended for undergraduates on courses in drama, theatre or performing arts, providing an informative and accessible guide to the subject. It will help students understand their main textbooks and wider reading, will be a source of definitions for use in essays and other assignments, and will be especially useful as a revision aid. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the concepts it embraces, followed by an alphabetical listing of those concepts. Students are encouraged to use the frequent cross-referencing as a means of seeing their studies in a wider context and with an integrated approach. The book has a fully comprehensive index, allowing the reader to follow themes running through the entries.

'...Pickering's Key Concepts [in Drama and Performance] is a fine achievement, not least if it helps theatre theorists think more practically about texts and performance and allows practitioners to engage more openly with the insights of theory.' - The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies

Introduction
Textual Concepts
Performance Concepts
Production Concepts
Staging Concepts
Critical Concepts
Further Reading
Index One: Key Concepts
Index Two: General Index

KENNETH PICKERING has successfully combined the careers of academic, playwright, author and theatre director. He has held a number of senior academic appointments in the UK and the US and is now Chief Examiner for drama and speech subjects at Trinity College, London. Kenneth is the author of Studying Modern Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).