Devising performance : a critical history / Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Theatre and performance practicesPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.Description: vii, 272 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1403906629 (hbk.)
  • 9781403906625 (hbk.)
  • 1403906637 (pbk.)
  • 9781403906632 (pbk.)
  • 9781403906625 (hbk.)
  • 9781403906632 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.028 HED
LOC classification:
  • PN2193.E86 H43 2006
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Contents:
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.
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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792.027 GRI Grimas theatre make-up 792.028 BOL Acting : 792.028 HED Devising performance : 792.028 HED Devising performance : 792.028 LAB The mastery of movement / 792.028 MCE The actor and the Alexander technique / 792.028 PIT Performance perspectives :

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?'

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