Devising performance :
Heddon, Deirdre, 1969-
Devising performance : a critical history / Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - vii, 272 p. ; 23 cm. - Theatre and performance practices .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-264) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Devising and Acting -- 3. Devising and Visual Performance -- 4. Devising and Political Theatre -- 5. Devising and Communities -- 6. Contemporary Devising and Physical Performance -- 6. Contemporary Devising and Postmodern Performance -- 8. Conclusions.
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?'
1403906629 (hbk.) 9781403906625 (hbk.) 1403906637 (pbk.) 9781403906632 (pbk.) 9781403906625 (hbk.) 9781403906632 (pbk.)
2005044508
GBA552637 bnb
013225835 Uk
Experimental theater.
Improvisation (Acting)
PN2193.E86 / H43 2006
792.028 / HED
Devising performance : a critical history / Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - vii, 272 p. ; 23 cm. - Theatre and performance practices .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-264) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Devising and Acting -- 3. Devising and Visual Performance -- 4. Devising and Political Theatre -- 5. Devising and Communities -- 6. Contemporary Devising and Physical Performance -- 6. Contemporary Devising and Postmodern Performance -- 8. Conclusions.
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?'
1403906629 (hbk.) 9781403906625 (hbk.) 1403906637 (pbk.) 9781403906632 (pbk.) 9781403906625 (hbk.) 9781403906632 (pbk.)
2005044508
GBA552637 bnb
013225835 Uk
Experimental theater.
Improvisation (Acting)
PN2193.E86 / H43 2006
792.028 / HED