TH 421SEM—Devised Performance

In this course, we will invent, refine, and rehearse devised performance while training a critical eye on the processes of collaboration and creation. We will examine the manifestos, ways of working, and preoccupations of other groups and companies, as well as consider contemporary scholarship that examines theatrical collaboration and some of its diverse means and ends. Through practice and critical reflection, as well as close observation of some chosen devised works, we will innovate our own responses to the pressures and opportunities presented by devising performance. Projects will focus on not only articulating, and attempting to realize, our own aims and interests in presenting devised performance, but on the significance and implications of group authorship and co-operative participation.