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, Th矇璽tre de Complicit矇, 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?"
