Devising Theatre Intensive New

Course details

This intensive 6 day workshop is designed for Actors, Directors, Designers, Dramaturgs, Writers and Creative Producers who wish to develop their skills in the area of devised theatre making. Led by award winning theatre maker, Gary Keegan, participants will explore a wide range of methodologies and techniques used in devised theatre and put these new skills into practice as the group devise and rehearse an original work for performance on Saturday evening to an invited audience.

Participants of the Devising Theatre Intensive can expect to:

• Gain skills to use in your own practice
• Work as part of a group
• Discover ways of establishing an effective collaboration within an ensemble
• Explore how to find a theme or a story
• Explore different ways of generating script
• Experiment with different formal ideas
• Experiment with different performance styles
• Harness the individual and collective skills and abilities of the ensemble
• Understand ways of shaping and editing your material
• Devise and stage an original work at an end of week showcase