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Devising Performance: A Critical History (Theatre and Performance Practices) (Hardback)
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Short Description for Devising PerformanceThe 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 devis
Full description- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Published: 22 October 2005
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Theatre Studies | Acting Techniques | Literary Studies: General
- ISBN 13: 9781403906625 ISBN 10: 1403906629
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Full description for Devising Performance
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?"

