Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

by Emma Govan, Kate Normington, Helen Nicholson, et al.

Book Overview

Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.

This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's Legs on the Wall, Britain's Forced Entertainment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415286530
• ISBN13: 9780415286534
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.6"