Creative Development Processes

In this workshop we explore various methods and approaches to creative development: how to nurture an idea or vision out of your head and onto the page or floor. We look at seeking and finding clarity: generating a premise for a work. We introduce methods to experiment with and test out ideas practically, no matter what form of theatre you are aiming for. We focus on trouble shooting in the creation of a work: How do you keep going when you’re stuck? What are the practical considerations for a creative development period? How do you assess what works and what doesn’t work? How do you string it all together to make a show?

Creative Developent: Getting to the Heart of the matter

Creative Developent: Getting to the Heart of the matter

This workshop is one where participants bring an idea they want to play with, or bring an inspiring object, a dream, a line from a poem, an obsession or a picture that’s in their head, a script – anything. We tease out these sources of inspiration and build the foundations for a piece of theatre. The workshop can be structured to go over hours or days or weeks, and can have a performance outcome or showing at the completion.

This workshop is suitable for any age and all levels of experience from schools to professional theatre practitioners.

“The workshop you ran opened my mind wider than any class I

took at uni, and for that I thank you most sincerely. Your process is admirable

and I’d love to learn more. It made more sense to me than any other theatre

project I’ve worked on and creatively-speaking it’s how I would like to work.

I love how it doesn’t discriminate, in that anyone and everyone has a driving

passion and a story to tell.”

Jacqui P – Theatre Works Masterclass, 2010