Oct 29
Devising
Keeping a track of coursework process in case the word document deletes itself.
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Jun 08
Hamlet Hail to the Thief
On Saturday June 7th 2025, I went to see a production of Hamlet co-directed by Christine Jones, Steven Hoggett, with music orchestrated by Thom Yorke from Radiohead's album Hail to the Thief, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. In this staging, the three laughed at the the suggestion of 'a Hamlet for our times' as a title -...
May 16
Katie Mitchell
May 16
Kneehigh
May 16
Antonin Artaud
May 16
Jacques Lecoq
May 16
Paper Birds
verbatim and a bit of physical theatre devising
May 16
Complicite
Complicite is a devising theatre company founded by four students of Jacques Lecoq's theatre school in Paris, including Simon McBurney. They largely use multimedia, physical theatre and lots of Lecoq's principles in their work. more notes at home. and add the slides from kirk
Feb 03
LAMDA Techniques
Meisner technique, Laben efforts, animal characteristics, line learning - all of these techniques have been used in LAMDA lessons and can be reused for other rehearsal purposes or can be written about in coursework.
Jan 30
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is one of the landmark texts of the absurdist theatre movement, first performed in 1955, written by philosopher and writer Samuel Beckett. The plot is fundamentally uneventful and consists of two unknown people waiting for another unknown thing. Despite the seeming lack of action, this play provokes deep, existential thought that...