Collaborative Theatre: The Theatre Du Soleil Sourcebook( Series - Making Theatre )

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 Theatre" is 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.