Starting points

August 12, 2015

The last few weeks I have been running intensive classes for students in devising theatre. The ideas I share with you may help you when you start working on your collaborative project. We spent 12 hours playing around with techniques and ideas, where we looked at...

Some plays to play with

June 24, 2015

In the last 6 weeks of the school semester I thought it would be fun and challenging for my classes to play around with some complete play texts and decide on the staging and ensemble building process. Which of course link in with the director’s notebook and...

The Director’s notebook – some ideas

June 19, 2015

In the last few weeks of the IB course at my school I thought it would be a good idea to work with the director’s notebook for next year. So, this is what we did: Love and information image   Stage 1 – research I chose a play that could be divided...

PPP tips and advice

May 26, 2015

This week my students started working on their Practical Performance Proposal. Of course, we have done many practices in the past and have also carried out a lot of practical work on how to devise original theatre from a starting point. There are always things they...

Working with Shadow Theatre

May 8, 2015

Shadow Theatre With my students in class recently we started working on Wayang Kulit, and as an introduction we looked at shadows and how they are used in performance. Below is the work that we did. I hope that this will give you some ideas of your own for your own...

Devising and working with masks

February 18, 2015

At the moment in my classes we are working on devising skills and have been working with Laban technique, Butoh, Suzuki and researching some devising theatre companies. I am sure that in your classes you are also working on devising in preparation for the...