Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance -

Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance

The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Buch | Softcover
348 Seiten
2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95646-3 (ISBN)
106,95 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre.



Tracing a web of women theatremakers in Europe and North America, this book explores the connections between early twentieth century collective theatre practices such as workers theatre and the dramatic play movement, and the subsequent spread of theatrical devising. Chapters investigate the work of the Settlement Houses, total theatre in 1920s’ France, the mid-century avant-garde and New Left collectives, the nomadic performances of Europe’s transnational theatre troupes, street-theatre protests, and contemporary devising. In so doing, the book further elucidates a history of modern theatre begun in A History of Collective Creation (2013) and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance (2013), in which the seemingly marginal and disparate practices ofcollective creation and devising are revealed as central—and women theatremakers revealed as progenitors of these practices.

A theatre director, teacher and scholar, Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva’s publications include A History of Collective Creation and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance (2013). Work in development includes Meyerhold and Stanislavsky at Povarskaya Street: Art, Money, Politics, and the Birth of Laboratory Theatre.   Scott Proudfit is Assistant Professor in English at Elon University, USA. Previously, he worked as an editor for Back Stage and Back Stage West, while collaborating with the Actors’ Gang, the Factory Theater, and Irondale Ensemble Project.  He was associate editor of A History of Collective Creation and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance (2013). 

Part I. First Wave, 1900-1945.- 1. Raising the Curtain on Suzanne Bing’s Life in the Theatre; Jane Baldwin.- 2. From Neva Boyd to Viola Spolin; Scott Proudfit.- 3. A Democratic Legacy; Elizabeth A. Osborne.- 4. Aleksandra Remizova; Andrei Malaev-Babel.- PART II. Second Wave, 1945-1985.- 5. Mnouchkine & Co.; David Calder.- 6. Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and the Mabou Mines Family Aesthetic; Jessica Silsby Brater;- 7. “Hers and His”;Siobhan O'Gorman.- 8. From the Center to the Heartland; Anne Fletcher.- 9. Historiographing a Feminist Utopia; Michelle MacArthur.- 10. Monstrous Regiment; Sarah Sigal.- PART III. Third Wave, 1985-2014.- 11. Judith Malina and the Living Theatre; Cindy Rosenthal.- 12. Bryony Lavery; Karen Morash.- 13. Women, Transmission, and Creative Agency in the Grotowski Diaspora; Virginie Magnat.- 14. The Women of Odin Teatret; Adam Ledger.- 15. Doing What Comes Naturally?; Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart.- 16. Collective Creation Downtown 2014; Rachel Anderson-Rabern.- 17. Between Africa and America; Nia O. Witherspoon.- 18. Hands like starfish/Feet like moons; Victoria Lewis.- 19. Pussy Riot and Performance as Social Practice; Julia Listengarten.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 Illustrations, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 348 p. 21 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-349-95646-5 / 1349956465
ISBN-13 978-1-349-95646-3 / 9781349956463
Zustand Neuware
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