1st Edition
Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts
By Telory D Arendell
Copyright 2023
354 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
354 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
354 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice.
As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this journey with a brief history of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Living Newspapers through Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble and Joe Chaikin’s Open Theatre to the racially inflected commentary of Luis... Read more
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Allen J. Kuharski
Chapter 1: A Brief History of Devised Theatre
Chapter 2: Goat Island’s Dance with Pina Bausch
Chapter 3: Giving Voice to Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre
Chapter 4: Anna Deavere Smith’s Devising Envelope for Verbatim Theatre
Chapter 5: The Tectonic Theatre Project’s Moment Work
Chapter 6: Teya Sepinuck’s Theatre of Witness
Chapter 7: Pig Iron Theatre Company and Jacques Lecoq’s Mime
Chapter 8: The Riot Group
Appendices
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Telory Arendell is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Missouri State University.
