Devising performance: a critical history
The book charts the development of collaboratively-created performances from the 1950s to the present day. Companies discussed include the Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Theatre de Complicite, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment and Third Angel. Against this background of enormous variety, fundamental questions are posed: 'What is devised theatre?'; 'Why have theatre-makers chosen to devise performances since the 1950s?' and 'How has…
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- Full title :Devising performance : a critical history / Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling.
Summary
The book charts the development of collaboratively-created performances from the 1950s to the present day. Companies discussed include the Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Theatre de Complicite, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment and Third Angel. Against this background of enormous variety, fundamental questions are posed: 'What is devised theatre?'; 'Why have theatre-makers chosen to devise performances since the 1950s?' and 'How has devised performance changed over the last fifty years?'
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 272 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780230804166, 0230804160, 1403906629, 9781403906625, 1403906637, 9781403906632
- oclc:ocn770009081
- LC Classification:PN2193.E86
- Dewey Decimal:792.02/23
Table of Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Devising and Physical Performance -- Devising and Visual Performance -- Devising and Political Theatre -- Devising and Communities -- Contemporary Devising and Physical Theatre -- Contemporary Devising and Postmodern Performance -- Devising the Mainstream -- Notes -- Further Reading.
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