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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Devising the Environment: Finding A Narrative In The Noise

HowlRound: There is a time in every devising process I’ve ever been a part of when everyone in the room—and I mean everyone—just wants somebody to tell them what comes next:

What are we creating?

What’s the story?

What are we doing, other than just talking?

Won’t somebody tell us, please?

Most of the time this reaction is a byproduct of having spent weeks and/or months absorbing massive amounts of information, the barest fraction of which could be used as material to create a full, engaging work of theatre. But which barest fraction?

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