| Devising Performance: A Critical History Contributor(s): Milling, Jane (Author), Heddon, Deirdre (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137426772 ISBN-13: 9781137426772 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - Direction & Production - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 792.028 |
| Series: Theatre and Performance Practices |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, Th tre de Complicit , 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. |