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Thorpe, Jess; Gore, Tashi

 
9781350025943: A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre

Synopsis

Winner of the 2021 Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Drama Education Resource

Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we're required to start from scratch? How do we begin to make theatre using our own ideas, our own perspective, our own stories?

A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre, written by the artistic directors of the award-winning young people's performance company Junction 25 and is aimed at those new to devising or wanting to further develop their skills. It explores creative ways to create original theatre from a contemporary stimulus.

It offers a structure within which to approach the creative process, including ideas on finding a starting point, generating material, composition and design; it offers practical ideas for use in rehearsal; and it presents grounding in terminology that will support a confident and informed approach to production.

The book features contributions from some of the young performers who have been a part of Junction 25's work to date, as well as key artists and companies that work professionally in devised theatre, including case studies from Quarantine, the Team, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Nic Green and Ontroerend Goed. The work of Junction 25 is used to illustrate the concepts and ideas set out in the book.

Ideal for any student faced with the challenge of creating work from scratch, A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre offers constructive guidance, which supports the requirements of students taking Drama and Theatre Studies courses. The book includes a foreword by theatre critic Lyn Gardner.

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À propos des auteurs

Jess Thorpe is co-director of theatre company Glass Performance with Tashi Gore.

Tashi Gore is co-director of theatre company Glass Performance with Jess Thorpe

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ISBN 10 :  1350099740 ISBN 13 :  9781350099746
Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2019
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