Description
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 Théâtre 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.
Author: Telory D. Arendell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/19/2022
Pages: 303
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780367644376
ISBN10: 0367644371
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
- Psychology | Social Psychology
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Historical
About the Author
Telory Arendell is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Missouri State University.
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