Devising theatre and performance : curious methods / Leslie Hill and Helen Paris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Leslie, 1949- author.

Paris, Helen, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater.

Improvisation (Acting).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2021]

Summary:

This book makes a major contribution to the fields of theatre and performance studies, devised performance practice, and practice-based research. The authors provide a treasure-trove of performance exercises that will be invaluable to performance-makers, educators and students as they develop their creative practice. 10 half-tones.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Curious Methods

Contents

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

1. Curious Methods

2. Pep Talk

Daily Practice

Daily Creative Practice Time

Outfoxing the Censor

Freewriting

A Time and a Place

Failing Better

3. Working from the Body

Arrivals and Departures

Begin Again

Tongue-tied

Body Map

Body Memory

Invisible

The Sense of Smell

Homesick

Olfactory Portraits

Fight, Flight, Freeze

Gut Feelings

Secret Duets

Inheritance Tracks

Family Traits and Mannerisms

Persona

Building a Persona

Ideas / Reflections / Sketches

4. Working with Objects

Tactile Memory

Exquisite and Mundane

Inherited Objects

'The Lovers'

Suitcase

5. Working with Site

Give and Take

Ghost Library

Ghost Duets

In Search of a Gesture

You Are Here

Map Making, Three Ways

Blurring Time and Place

Things Ain't What They Used to Be

Best Foot Forward

Marks and Scars

Dancing Place and Space

Private, Keep Out!

Taking Up Residence

Infinitesimal Detail

Fifteen Quick Freewrites on Place

Autotopographically Speaking

Silent Stroll

Closing Thoughts

6. Working with Pairings

Failure &amp

Text

Desire &amp

Proximity

Ritual &amp

Object

7. Activism

Manifestos

Impulse Manifesto

Make Manifest

Lending and Borrowing

Signs

Wear your Heart on your Sleeve

On Location

Stand Up, Speak Out

Living Newspaper

Ripped from the Headlines

Re-enactment

Choose your Battles

Verbatim Theatre

Explosive Material - a journalistic exercise

Explosive Compounds - an ethnographic exercise

One-Minute Plays

Mix Tape

Produce, Adapt or Devise?

A Moment in History.

Cross That Line

Closed Border

Open Border

Tactical Toolkit - Jessi Piggott

Make a Spectacle

Reflections

8. Production Workbook

Operating Instructions

Kick-Starting Process

Realm of Concern

I've always wanted to be able to ...

Feathering the Nest

Look Book

Composition

Space and Composition

Dream Island

Fleshing it Out

Dancing the Dynamics

Workshopping

Index Card Storyboard

Dear Dead Darlings

Enter The Audience

Dear Audience

Feedback

Three Adjectives

Performance Response

Brief Hauntings - Ryan Tacata

Brief Hauntings

Companion Piece

Invited Guests

Bespoke

Cartomancy

Documentation

Favourite Performance You Never Saw

9. A Practice-Based Research Workbook

Performing Knowledges

Back Stage

Escape Velocity

Glorious Manifestations

Generative Research - Lois Weaver

Mapping your Practice

Diagrammatic Praxis - Sher Doruff

Secret Fear

Abstractions on Secret Fears

Defining Your Dramaturgy

Signatures of Practice - Gretchen Schiller

Methodologies

Phenomenology

Doing a Phenomenology - Susan Kozel

Phenomenological Journal

Autoethnography

Project Descriptions in First and Third

Specialist Knowledge

Autoethnographic Journal

Keeping a Lab Notebook

Designing Bespoke PBR Exercises

Sowing from Seed

PBR Evaluation and Critique

Bespoke Evaluation Rubric

Amalgamated Evaluation Rubric

Bibliography and Further Reading

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789384734

1789384737

9781789384727

1789384729