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Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance is the first monograph to provide an in-depth study of the implications of Deleuze´s philosophy for theatre and performance. Drawing from Goat Island, Butoh, Artaud and Kaprow, as well from Deleuze, Bergson and Laruelle, the book conceives performance as a way of thinking immanence.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Immanent Authorship: From the Living Theatre to Cage and Goat Island Disorganizing Language, Voicing Minority: From Artaud to Carmelo Bene, Robert Wilson & Georges Lavaudant Immanent Imitations, Animal Affects: From Hijikata Tatsumi to Marcus Coates Paying Attention, Participating in the Whole: Allan Kaprow Alongside Lygia Clark Ethical Durations,Opening to Other Times: Returning to Goat Island with Wilson In-Conclusion: What ´Good´ is Immanent Theatre? Immanence as an Ethico-aesthetic Value Coda Bibliography Index

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´Laura Cull breaks with the mutual distrust between theater and philosophy that has kept both disciplines from recognizing their myriad entanglements. The result is a creative approach to contemporary theater that also sheds new light on Gilles Deleuze.´ - Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama, Harvard University, USA

´Given Deleuze´s growing prominence in performance analysis, this rigorous study of his philosophical notion of immanence is timely and valuable to the discipline... In addition to Cull´s, often revisionary, analyses of the theatre practices themselves, which are valuable contributions to avant-garde scholarship in their own right, this is also an account of how performance can sometimes ´think´ philosophically for itself, as Cull describes it, in addition to its capacity to draw on and exemplify existing theories.´ - Liz Tomlin, NTQ

´In Laura Cull´s book, Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance, complex Deleuzian concepts are injected with dramatic life and manipulated with great ease and originality. The book pays a beautiful tribute to the fact that Deleuze´s concepts have also inspired artists and have brought some performances to life´. - Liza Kharoubi, Avignon University, France

University, France

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Laura Cull à Maoilearca is Head of the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Surrey, UK. Her most recent books are Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance (2012; 2015) and Encounters in Performance Philosophy (2014) co-edited with Alice Lagaay. Her other publications include Deleuze and Performance (2009) and Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (2013) co-edited with Will Daddario. She is core convener of Performance Philosophy and joint series editor of the Performance Philosophy book series with Palgrave Macmillan.

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