Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance - The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)

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 of collective creation and devising are revealed as central-and women theatremakers revealed as progenitors of these practices.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2016
Editors:	Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva • Scott Proudfit
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	348
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-95646-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-349-95646-5
Barcode:	9781349956463

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