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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heddon, Deirdre, 1969- author.

Milling, Jane, 1967- author.

Series:

Theatre and performance practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater.

Improvisation (Acting).

Theater--Production and direction.

Theater.

Ensemble theater.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

What is the history of devised theatre? Why have theatre-makers, since the 1950s, chosen to devise performances? What different sorts of devising practices are there? What are the myths attached to devising, and what are the realities? First published in 2005, Devising Performance remains the only book to offer the reader a history of devising practice. Charting the development of collaboratively created performances from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century, it presents a range of case studies drawn from Britain, America and Australia. Companies discussed include The Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Théâtre de Complicité, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment, Goat Island and Graeae. Providing a history of devising practice, Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling encourage us to look more carefully at the different modes of devising and to consider the implications of our use of these practices in the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Devising and Acting 29

3 Devising and Visual Performance 63

4 Devising and Political Theatre 95

5 Devising and Communities 130

6 Contemporary Devising and Physical Performance 157

7 Contemporary Devising and Postmodern Performance 190

8 Conclusions 221.

Notes:

"Macmillan education."

Previous edition: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137426765

1137426764

9781137426772

1137426772

OCLC:

928769295