A history of collective creation / Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, editor, and Scott Proudfit, associate editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Syssoyeva, Kathryn Mederos, 1961- editor.

Proudfit, Scott, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater--Europe--History--20th century.

Experimental theater.

Experimental theater--United States--History--20th century.

Collaborative behavior.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

History.

United States.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 265 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Collective creation-the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance-rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model with profound social, political, and ethical implications. Tracing a lineage from the work of Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Copeau, St. Denis, Piscator, Reduta, Grotowski, A History of Collective Creation demonstrates that collective creation played a pivotal role in the evolution of the modern theatre. Examining collective and devised theatre practices in Europe and North America, the contributors explore collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century, emerging just after the rise of the modern director. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The first wave. From monastic cell to Communist cell: groups, communes, and collectives, 1900-1945 / KATHRYN MEDEROS SYSSOYEVA

Revolution in the theatre I: Meyerhold, Stanislavsky and collective creation, Russia, 1905 / KATHRYN MEDEROS SYSSOYEVA

Reduta's reorigination of theatre: radical collectivity in Poland's interwar theatre laboratory / KRIS SALATA

The accidental rebirth of collective creation: Jacques Copeau, Michel Saint-Denis, Léon Chancerel and improvised theatre / JANE BALDWIN

Collective creation in documentary theatre / ATTILIO FAVORINI

The second wave. Crossroads and confluence: collective creation, 1945-1985 / SCOTT PROUDFIT and KATHRYN MEDEROS SYSSOYEVA

Collective creation as a theatre of immanence: Deleuze and The Living Theatre / LAURA CULL

Something queer at the heart of it: collaboration between John Cage and Merce Cunningham / MICHAEL HUNTER

Shared space and shared pages: collective creation for Edward Albee and the playwrights of the Open Theater / SCOTT PROUDFIT

Against efficiency: the Théâtre du Soleil's experimental relations of production / DAVID CALDER

From Mao to the Feeling Circle: the limits and endurance of collective creation / VICTORIA LEWIS

Who's in charge?: the collective nature of early Chicano theatre / JORGE A. HUERTA

Collective creation in Quebec: function and impact / JEAN-MARC-LARRUE.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137331298

1137331291

OCLC:

829387005