@inbook{96a67becdb2242f5a450de501e785072,
title = "Physical Theatre: Outbreak and Absorption",
abstract = "This chapter considers the development of Physical Theatre in the UK from the 1960s to the turn of the century. It takes as its starting point two key academic papers on Physical Theatre from the mid-1990s and considers the absence of Lecoq-based Physical Theatre companies, such as Complicite, from these critical texts. Moving backwards from the 1990s, this chapter discusses the work of earlier examples of Physical Theatre, which do not belong to the same lineages of DV8 or Complicite such as Freehold and Pip Simmons.",
keywords = "Theatre \& Performance Studies, 20th Century Performance, Theatre History, Arts, History of Performance",
author = "Franc Chamberlain",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2026 selection and editorial matter, Claire Cochrane, Lynette Goddard, Catherine Hindson, Trish Reid; individual chapters, the contributors.",
year = "2025",
month = dec,
day = "10",
doi = "10.4324/9781003046691-19",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780367495725",
volume = "2",
series = "Routledge Companions",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "202--216",
editor = "Claire Cochrane and Lynette Goddard and Catherine Hindson and Trish Reid",
booktitle = "The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}