Collective Creation, Collaboration and Devising
by Barton, BruceFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher(s): Playwrights Canada Pr
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Table of Contents
| General Editor's Preface | p. iii |
| Acknowledgements | p. v |
| Introduction: Devising the Creative Body | p. vii |
| Collective Creation: Process, Politics and Poetics | p. 1 |
| The Meeting of Actuality and Theatricality in The Farm Show | p. 14 |
| A Success Story: Theatre Passe Muraille (excerpts) | p. 29 |
| Company Town - The Story of Buchans | p. 38 |
| Towards an Understanding of Theatrical Difference | p. 51 |
| Collective Creation: Its Background and Canadian Developments (excerpt) | p. 63 |
| Dilating the Body, Transporting the Mind: Considering Primus Theatre | p. 77 |
| Performing Emergency: Witnessing, Popular Theatre and The Lie of the Literal | p. 88 |
| The Structures of Authenticity: Collective and Collaborative Creations (excerpts) | p. 98 |
| Carbone 14's Intelligent and Responsive Body | p. 114 |
| Creating the Form: Rule Plays and Svengali's | p. 121 |
| Enacting This is for You, Anna: Re-enacting the Collective Process | p. 129 |
| Mining "Turbulence": Authorship Through Direction in Physically-Based Devised Theatre | p. 136 |
| Towards a Poetics of Popular Theatre: Directing and Authorship in Community-Based Work | p. 152 |
| Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way | p. 167 |
| The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times (excerpt) | p. 182 |
| The Social Impresario: capitalizing on the desire to be remembered for as long as it takes wood to rot | p. 190 |
| Making Radium City: Annotations by Alex McLean and Robert Plowman (excerpts) | p. 199 |
| Work With Your Hands | p. 209 |
| Cultural Meeting in Collaborative Intercultural Theatre: Collision and Convergence in the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Theatre Project | p. 217 |
| Cosmopolitan Time and Intercultural Collaborative Creation | p. 231 |
| The View Beyond the Stage: Collective, Collaborative and Site-Specific Performance in Vancouver | p. 242 |
| The Very Act | p. 253 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 257 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 265 |
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