Theatre and Knowing: Considering the Pedagogical Spaces in Devised Theatre

Perry, Mia

doi:10.1080/08929092.2011.569461

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“…Devised theatre refers to theatre that has no official script provided by a playwright. Rather, it is developed collaboratively by a group of people through a democratic process (Perry, 2011). Devising with an ensemble involves every team member having equally weighted opinions.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Methodologymentioning

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Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word: Intersectional Feminist Directing in Theory and in Practice

Frost

2019

TAR

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As a theatre and gender studies double major at the University of Victoria, I have been ableto critically think about the ways each of my fields of study could benefit the other. In myexperience, many courses in the UVic Department of Theatre generally focus on dramatic texts andtheoretical literature written by white men. Consequently, contributions to the theatre by women,people of colour, and/or non-Western theatre practitioners are largely dismissed or ignored. Myfrustration with this pattern was what led me to create Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word,a part scripted, part devised performance piece that staged scenes from classic and contemporaryplays using directing theory written by feminists, for feminists. I curated the excerpts, wrote thetransition-text, and directed the play using an intersectional feminist framework. The project wasan experiment in applying intersectional feminism to theatre directing in order to critique the waythe male-dominated canon of plays and theories shapes theatre education. Through this project, Ifound that intersectional feminist directing techniques foster collaboration; encourage discussionand mutual education about identity, oppression, and representation; and can be applied to theproduction of both classics and contemporary feminist plays and to the creation of new work by anensemble.

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Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word: Intersectional Feminist Directing in Theory and in Practice

Frost

2019

TAR

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“…As the name implies, a devised piece is not a conventional play, but a theatrical piece created from the contributions of all participants, usually based around a central theme or idea . In our case, the theme was ‘healing’.…”

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Discovering emotional honesty through devised theatre

2014

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By participating, the students developed an emotional honesty with them-selves and with each other. They thought and wrote about their chosen profession. They also learned about physical and interpersonal discipline, ethical issues, teamwork and acquired some lifelong skills. Our experience as evidenced by the students' reflective diaries suggests that devised theatre offers potential as a means of encouraging the personal and professional development of medical students.

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“…Diverse relational ontologies, variously framed as posthuman, new materialist or sociomaterial, have been used widely in performance studies to explore aspects of theatre practice. They have been applied, for example, to the improvised process of creating devised theatre (Perry, 2011), the in-between-ness of audience/performer relations (Whalley and Miller 2017), and the sensory engagement generated through immersive theatre (Machon 2013). They have also provided generative frameworks for research in education, in studies linked to early childhood settings (e.g.…”

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Conceptualising digital technology integration in participatory theatre from a sociomaterialist perspective: ways forward for research

Burnett

Merchant

Parry

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Research Papers in Education

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Existing research on the use of technology in participatory theatre in education has paid little attention to the moment-to-moment unfolding that characterises the liveliness at the heart of such practice. In this conceptual article, we show how a sociomaterialist perspective can illuminate the contingent co-emergence of people, things and technologies that produces this liveliness of events. Perspectives drawn from actor-network theory are used to illuminate one example of the integration of technology in participatory theatre in an educational context. The concepts of mutability, disruption, maintenance, potentialities and multiplicities are developed as an explanatory framework for future research and practice in these and similar forms of educational activity.

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Theatre and Knowing: Considering the Pedagogical Spaces in Devised Theatre

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word: Intersectional Feminist Directing in Theory and in Practice

Big Daddy Lives or Don’t Say the F Word: Intersectional Feminist Directing in Theory and in Practice

Discovering emotional honesty through devised theatre

Conceptualising digital technology integration in participatory theatre from a sociomaterialist perspective: ways forward for research

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