Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance

Chapter 1 Toward a New History of Women in the Modern Theatre – an Introduction

Chapter 2 Raising the Curtain on Suzanne Bing’s Life in the Theatre

Chapter 3 From Neva Boyd to Viola Spolin: How Social Group Work in 1920s’ Settlement Houses Defined Collective Creation in 1960s’ Theatres

Chapter 4 A Democratic Legacy: Hallie Flanagan and the Vassar Experimental Theatre

Chapter 5 Alexandra Remizova: An “Actors’ Director”

Chapter 6 Mnouchkine & Co.: Constructing a Collective

Chapter 7 Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and the Mabou Mines Family Aesthetic

Chapter 8 “Hers and His”: Carolyn Swift, Alan Simpson, and Collective Creation at Dublin’s Pike Theatre

Chapter 9 From the Center to the Heartland: The Collective, Collaborative Conscience of Jo Ann Schmidman, Megan Terry, Sora Kimberlain, and the Omaha Magic Theatre (1968–1998)

Chapter 10 Historiographing a Feminist Utopia: Collective Creation, History, and Feminist Theatre in Canada

Chapter 11 Monstrous Regiment: The Gendered Politics of Collaboration, Writing, and Authorship in the UK from the 1970s Onwards

Chapter 12 Judith Malina and the Living Theatre: Storming the Barricades and Creating Collectively

Chapter 13 Bryony Lavery: Nerves of Steel and a Forgiving Heart

Chapter 14 Women, Transmission, and Creative Agency in the Grotowski Diaspora

Chapter 15 The Women of Odin Teatret: Creativity, Challenge, Legacy

Chapter 16 Doing What Comes Naturally?: Women and Devising in the UK Today

Chapter 17 Devising Downtown: Collective Creation and Female Leadership in Contemporary New York

Chapter 18 (The Waters) Between Africa and America: Revelations in Process, Theatrical-Jazz, and Sharon Bridgforth’s River See

Chapter 19 Hands like starfish/Feet like moons: Disabled Women’s Theatre Collectives

Chapter 20 Pussy Riot and Performance as Social Practice: Collectivity, Collaboration, and Communal Bond