Devised Theater¿s Collaborative Performance - Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts

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 Valdez-s Teatro Campesino and Ariane Mnouchkine-s collaboration with Th-re de Soleil. This book explores the impact of devised theatre on social practice and analyzes Goat Island-s use of Pina Bausch-s gestural movement, Augusto Boal-s Theatre of the Oppressed in Giving Voice, Anna Deavere Smith-s devised envelope for Verbatim Theatre, The Tectonic Theatre Project-s moment work, Teya Sepinuck-s Theatre of Witness, Pig Iron-s use of Lecoq mime to build complex physical theatre scripts, and The Riot Group-s musical arrangement of collaborative devised text. Included are a foreword by Allen