Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance: The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twenti

Part I. First Wave, 1900-1945.- 1. Raising the Curtain on Suzanne Bing's Life in the Theatre; Jane Baldwin.- 2. From Neva Boyd to Viola Spolin; Scott Proudfit.- 3. A Democratic Legacy; Elizabeth A. Osborne.- 4. Aleksandra Remizova; Andrei Malaev-Babel.- PART II. Second Wave, 1945-1985.- 5. Mnouchkine & Co.; David Calder.- 6. Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and the Mabou Mines Family Aesthetic; Jessica Silsby Brater;- 7. "Hers and His";Siobhan O'Gorman.- 8. From the Center to the Heartland; Anne Fletcher.- 9. Historiographing a Feminist Utopia; Michelle MacArthur.- 10. Monstrous Regiment; Sarah Sigal.- PART III. Third Wave, 1985-2014.- 11. Judith Malina and the Living Theatre; Cindy Rosenthal.- 12. Bryony Lavery; Karen Morash.- 13. Women, Transmission, and Creative Agency in the Grotowski Diaspora; Virginie Magnat.- 14. The Women of Odin Teatret; Adam Ledger.- 15. Doing What Comes Naturally?; Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart.- 16. Collective Creation Downtown 2014; Rachel Anderson-Rabern.- 17. Between Africa and America; Nia O. Witherspoon.- 18. Hands like starfish/Feet like moons; Victoria Lewis.- 19. Pussy Riot and Performance as Social Practice; Julia Listengarten.