Collaborative Theatre: The Theatre du Soleil Sourcebook (Making Theatre): Le Theatre du Soleil - Softcover

Over the past thirty years Ariane Mnouchkine's 'Théâtre du Soleil' has become one of the most celebrated companies in Europe, and Mnouchkine one of its best-known directors. Collaborative Theatre is the first in-depth sourcebook in English on 'Théâtre du Soleil' providing English readers with first-hand accounts of the development of its collectivist practices and ideals. Collaborative Theatre presents critical and historical essays by theatre scholars from around the world as well as the writings of and interviews with members of le Théâtre du Soleil, past and present. Projects discussed include: 1789, L'Age d'Or, Richard II, L'Indiade and Les Atriades.

David Williams teaches in the Performance Studies program at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is the compiler of Peter Brook: A Theatrical Casebook and Peter Brook and the Mahabharata (Routledge 1991). He is also a theater director.