Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance: Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) - Softcover

Arendell, Telory D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036764438X ISBN 13: 9780367644383

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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 Théātre 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 J. Kuharski and three devised plays by Theatre of Witness, Pig Iron, and The Riot Group.

Replete with interviews from the initial Pig Iron collaborators on subjects of writing, directing, choreographing, teaching, and developing a pedagogical platform that supports devised theatre.

About this title

About the Author

Telory Arendell is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Missouri State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036764438X
• ISBN 13: 9780367644383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354