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Emma Govan - Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices - 9780415286534 - V9780415286534
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Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

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Description for Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.

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 and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages.

Designed to be accessible to both scholars and practitioners, this study offers clear, practical examples of concepts and ideas that have shaped some of the most vibrant and experimental practices in contemporary performance.

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415286534
SKU
V9780415286534
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-2

About Emma Govan
Emma Govan lectures in drama and theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her particular research interests are contemporary practice and applied theatre. She is currently completing a book on Theatre in Health and Care. Helen Nicholson lectures in drama and theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she specialises in contemporary performance-making and applied theatre. She is co-editor of the journal Research in Drama Education, and her book, Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre, was published in 2005. Katie Normington is Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway University of London. Her research interests span both medieval and contemporary drama. Recent publications include Gender and Medieval Drama (Boydell and Brewer, 2004) and Modern Mysteries (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming). She has written for New Theatre Quarterly on contemporary applications of Meyerhold and directing practices.

Reviews for Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices
'Making a performance...herald[s] a renewed, more urgent critical interest in the arena of contemporary devising practices...and makes a strong, substantial and much needed contribution to the field of devised performance theory and I hope it will inspire others...' Joanna Bucknell, University of Winchester "The emphasis on contemporary companies provides a welcome introduction to works that have received scant scholarly attention. Summing Up: Recommended."
CHOICE, January 2008 'Making a Performance ... herald[s] a renewed, more urgent critical interest in the arena of contemporary devising practices ... and makes a strong, substantial and much needed contribution to the field of devised performance theory and I hope it will inspire others.' – Joanna Bucknell, University of Winchester, UK

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