TY - BOOK AU - Heddon,Deirdre AU - Milling,Jane TI - Devising performance: a critical history SN - 1-4039-0663-7 PY - 2005/// CY - New York : PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Formación actoral KW - Improvisación KW - Teatro experimental KW - Interpretación teatral N1 - Bibliografía: (p. 250-264). Índice; Preface -- Introduction -- Devising and Physical Performance -- Devising and Visual Performance -- Devising and Political Theatre -- Devising and Communities -- Contemporary Devising and Physical Theatre -- Contemporary Devising and Postmodern Performance -- Devising the Mainstream -- Notes -- Further Reading N2 - The book charts the development of collaboratively-created performances from the 1950s to the present day. Companies discussed include the Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Theatre de Complicite, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment and Third Angel. Against this background of enormous variety, fundamental questions are posed: 'What is devised theatre?'; 'Why have theatre-makers chosen to devise performances since the 1950s?' and 'How has devised performance changed over the last fifty years?' ER -