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David Glass

Devised Theatre Making and Creative Practice

Kilden Teater, Scenekunst Sør, INAF and The Actors’ Centre are thrilled to invite you to a workshop focusing on collaborative and creative practice – with the eminent theatre director David Glass himself!

David Glass is one of the world’s great theatre teachers. He is of the most inspiring and creative teachers of performance skills that I have had the pleasure of working with. – Mike Alfreds, Theatre Director (RCS, National Theatre, The Globe, Founder of Shared Experience)

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this two day intensive workshop participants will explore the tools of eliciting, image-making, emergence, story structure and theme, to develop skills in the creation of original and authentic theatre. The course is rigours, playful and practical but with a clear reproducible framework. Over the two days, the participants will learn the fundamentals of Devised Theatre and will come away with tools and skills they can use immediately in creating work.

Devised theatre now sits at the heart of modern theatre practice. Here the actor /performer as collaborative maker is central. David Glass has been one of the worlds pioneers in this expanding area and has influenced the work of Complicite, Gecko Theatre, DV8 , Otheatre and many artists theatre companies and creative organisations around the world including the UN, The Chinese Ministry of Education , Save the Children and leading corporate trainers.
The workshop will be integrating at a foundational level David Glass’s celebrated five stage Creative Practice: Alchemy of the Extraordinary, consisting of:

  • Preparation
  • Origination
  • Organisation
  • Manifestation
  • Reflection

The participants will learn experientially the tools and frameworks for original theatre making. Key areas will be:

  • Ensemble and group creative practice
  • Emerging material
  • Analysis of material-ideas, image, dramatic situations, character, expressive mediums
  • The arc of choosing material: Interesting, Resonant, Relevant and Appropriate.
  • The Creative triangle tension of Artist, Art and The World
  • Theatre being Evocation, Provocation and Invocation
  • And the organic relationship of Story, Drama, Design and Music/Sound.

Applications for this workshop has ended.

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