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Introduction -- The first wave. From monastic cell to Communist cell: groups, communes, and collectives, 1900-1945 / Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva -- Revolution in the theatre I: Meyerhold, Stanislavsky and collective creation, Russia, 1905 / Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva -- Reduta's reorigination of theatre: radical collectivity in Poland's interwar theatre laboratory / Kris Salata -- The accidental rebirth of collective creation: Jacques Copeau, Michel Saint-Denis, Léon Chancerel and improvised theatre / Jane Baldwin -- Collective creation in documentary theatre / Attilio Favorini -- The second wave. Crossroads and confluence: collective creation, 1945-1985 / Scott Proudfit and Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva -- Collective creation as a theatre of immanence: Deleuze and The Living Theatre / Laura Cull -- Something queer at the heart of it: collaboration between John Cage and Merce Cunningham / Michael Hunter -- Shared space and shared pages: collective creation for Edward Albee and the playwrights of the Open Theater / Scott Proudfit -- Against efficiency: the Théâtre du Soleil's experimental relations of production / David Calder -- From Mao to the Feeling Circle: the limits and endurance of collective creation / Victoria Lewis -- Who's in charge?: the collective nature of early Chicano theatre / Jorge A. Huerta -- Collective creation in Quebec: function and impact / Jean-Marc Larrue.