Want to read up on the history and practice of performance? Here is some recommended reading from Team Witness. (Click on the link for details: some books are out of print and may require a visit to a library.)
A far from comprehensive list, and further suggestions are welcome!
For a list of websites we like, click here.
Australia | International
Australia
- Australasian Drama Studies journal
- A Compelling Force: Indigenous Women Playwrights – Maryrose Casey
- Not Wrong – Just Different – Katharine Brisbane
- A Raffish Experiment: Selected Writings of Rex Cramphorn – ed Ian Maxwell
- TheatreNotes Archive – Alison Croggon
- The Dolls’ Revolution – Rachel Fensham and Denise Varney
- After the Doll – Peter Fitzpatrick
- We’re People Who Do Shows: Performance Politics Visibility – ed Helena Grehan and Peter Eckersal
- Contemporary Australian Drama – Peter Holloway
- Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age – Grehan, H
- Theatre comes to Australia – Eric Irvin
- The Convict theatres – Robert Jordan
- Belonging – John McCallum
- Staging Asylum Contemporary Australian Plays about Refugees – Ed. E. Cox
- Talkin’ Up To The White Woman: Indigenous Women And Feminism – Aileen Moreton-Robinson
- Trapped by the Past – Julian Meyrick
- Theatre Australia (un)limited – Geoffrey Milne
- A Life in the Theatre – George Ogilvie
- The Making of Australian Drama – Leslie Rees
- A Family of Brothers – Viola Tate
- ‘We’re people who do shows’: Back to Back Theatre – Edited by Helena Grehan and Peter Eckersall
International
- Ain’t I a Woman? – bell hooks
- Art Worlds – Howard Becker
- Theatre of the Oppressed – August Boal
- The Empty Space – Peter Brook
- Who Needs Theatre? – Robert Brustein
- A Director Prepares – Anne Bogart
- Brecht on Theatre – ed Marc Silberman, Steve Giles, Tom Kuhn
- Opera: The Undoing of Women – Catherine Clement
- Theatre of the Absurd – Martin Esslin
- Certain Fragments – Tim Etchells
- The Death of Character – Elinor Fuchs
- The Forest and the Field – Chris Goode
- Towards a Poor Theatre – Jerzy Grotowski
- Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory – ed Geraldine Harris, Elaine Aston
- Shakespeare, our Contemporary – Jan Kott
- Three Uses of the Knife – David Mamet
- Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes – ed Duska Radosavljevic
- Performance Studies – Richard Schechner
- In-Yer-Face Theatre – Aleks Sierz