Great Deviser, The: Devising Work

Alternative title

Devising Work

Synopsis

Made with exclusive access to archive material and help from some of the world’s most exciting performance companies, this double DVD pack provides an inspirational resource for anyone involved in creating an original piece of drama.

Disc 1 The Great Deviser’s Great Devisers. Filmed with companies from 3 continents, this disc contains a feature film’s worth of edited interviews, demonstrations, rehearsal footage and performance outcome clips from some of the world’s most creative devisers - Goat Island (US), Forced Entertainment (UK), Ushio Amagatsu/Sankai Juku (Japan). The practitioners explain the ideas that influence and inform their work, how they start a piece - including research strategies and sourcing "raw ingredients"; games and other ways of generating movement and text and how they refine and structure their material.

Disc 2 The Great Deviser’s Great Resources: This online/offline web resource contains almost limitless ideas, strategies and materials to help devisors. Offline (DVD) resources include: video examples of student work informed by some of the practitioners on disc 1, specially commissioned copyright free "music to devise by", materials from Goat Island/Forced Entertainment and an introduction to the Great Devisers Great Devising Project - an online collaboration in which students are invited to upload performative and other responses to materials created by leading international practitioners.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of production

2006

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

drama production; theatre directors

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£75.00

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

100 minutes

Year

2013

Distributor

Name

Pumpkin Interactive

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