Editor: Williams, David
Theatre Studies; Hardback; Book
280 pages
Published: February 1999
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415086051
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Over the past thirty years Theatre du Soleil has become one of the most celebrated theater companies in Europe, and Ariadne Mnouchkine one of its best-known directors. Collaborative Theatreis the first in-depth source book on the performance troupe, renowned as widely for its cutting-edge theatrical production as its collectivist practices and ideals. Here critical and historical essays by theater critics from around the world are combined with essays by and interviews with members of Theatre du Soleil, past and present, to address the meaning of theater through examining five key plays by the company.Concerned with the processes of making theatre employed by Ariane Mnouchkine's Paris-based Theatre du Soleil, this book's primary purpose is to provide English readers with first-hand accounts of the development of its collectivist practices and ideals.