History of Collective Creation (eBook)

Jane Baldwin, Boston Conservatory, USA David Calder, Northwestern University, USA Laura Cull, University of Surrey, UK Attilio Favorini, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jorge A. Huerta, University of California, San Diego, USA Michael Hunter, Stanford University, USA Jean-Marc Larrue, Université de Montréal, Canada Victoria Lewis, University of Redlands, USA Kris Salata, Florida State University, USA

Introduction: Toward a New History of Collective Creation; Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva PART I: THE FIRST WAVE 1. From Monastic Cell to Communist Cell: Groups, Communes, and Collectives, 1900-1945; Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva 2. Revolution in the Theatre I: Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, and Collective Creation - Russia, 1905; Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva 3. Reduta's Reorigination of Theatre: Radical Collectivity in Poland's Interwar Theatre Laboratory; Kris Salata 4. The Accidental Rebirth of Collective Creation: Jacques Copeau, Michel Saint-Denis, Leon Chancerel, and Improvised Theatre; Jane Baldwin 5. Collective Creation in Documentary Theatre; Attilio Favorini PART II: THE SECOND WAVE 6. Crossroads and Confluence: Collective Creation, 1945-1985; Scott Proudfit and Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva 7. Collective Creation as a Theatre of Immanence: Deleuze and The Living Theatre; Laura Cull 8. Something Queer at the Heart of It: Collaboration Between John Cage and Merce Cunningham; Michael Hunter 9. Shared Space and Shared Pages: Collective Creation for Edward Albee and the Playwrights of the Open Theater; Scott Proudfit 10. Against Efficiency: The Theatre du Soleil's Experimental Relations of Production; David Calder 11. From Mao to the Feeling Circle: The Limits and Endurance of Collective Creation; Victoria Lewis 12. Who's in Charge?: The Collective Nature of Early Chicano Theatre; Jorge A. Huerta 13. Collective Creation in Quebec: Function and Impact; Jean-Marc Larrue