CPR - Shop

CPR Members are eligible for discounts of up to 35% on all books!

We stock all of your essential performance course books and specialise in sourcing performance related books that are not easily available in book shops: imports; illustrated books; texts in other languages; monographs on individual artists or performance companies and experiments in performance documentation, writing and publishing.

We also run performance bookstalls at theatre and performance conferences e.g. SCUDD and Performance Studies International (Psi). If your organization would like a friendly, efficient and well-stocked performance bookshop at a conference or special event, then please get in touch.

Performance Research Journal

Performance Research is a specialist journal published four times a year which aims to promote a dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in the expanding field of performance.

Interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope its emphasis is on contemporary performance within changing world cultures. Although Performance Research is published in English we welcome submissions in the contributor's preferred language and encourage submissions which challenge the boundaries between disciplines and genres.

Black mountain Press

CPR's own publishing division

Black Mountain Press is the publishing house of the Centre for Performance Research. It produces groundbreaking works by scholars and practitioners from throughout Europe. The European Contemporary Classics Theatre series documents innovative methods, theories and approaches to making and understanding theatre.