
Devising Performance
A Critical History
Palgrave MacMillan (Publisher)
Published on 22. October 2005
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4039-0662-5 (ISBN)
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Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Gordonsville
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-0662-5 (9781403906625)
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Content
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; Index