The methods associated with devised theatre and collective creation have begun to gain traction in the works of East-Central European theatre artists. At the same time, English-speaking theatre scholars have recently argued for either expanding the notion of collective creation to include its influences on other practices throughout the 20th century or defining it as a historical idea rooted in a locally defined cultural context and replacing it with the term theatre-making to refer to contemporary practices. The emergence of the actor as a creator, improvisation as a method of generating material, the laboratory rehearsal style, and the diminution of the playwright’s function may be shared between director’s theatre and collective creation...