Abstract
This chapter explores the American avant-garde company Mabou Mines’s distinctive approach to devising and adaptation as a mode for reimagining women and events of the past in two productions: Dead End Kids and Belen: A Book of Hours. Here, Mabou Mines changes identifiable historical source material to challenge accepted notions of history, confronting audiences with new perspectives on people and events of the past and undermining the authority of traditional master narratives. Dead End Kids and Belen are history plays that establish an interrogative relationship with the past, though each production establishes a distinct methodology particular to its perspective on the history it investigates. The approach, as Peter Weiss described his documentary drama, frankly ‘partisan’.
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