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games and performance

Working with my performance writing students this morning, I set them the task of quickly inventing a game to be played before, during, after or as a piece of performance. I asked them to determine a playing space, one or more tasks to be completed and a relationship between the players.
Here are three of the [...]

Posted 29 October 2009 § 3 great ideas § teaching ‡ Comments Off °

play in progress

On the train heading to Newtown for our departmental research conference, looking over the talk I’m giving tomorrow morning. The talk is an attempt to describe the ongoing process of bringing together my research (primarily written, formal, theory-led) with my performance practice (improvised, disposable, pragmatic, comic). More than anything, I want to talk about my [...]

Posted 03 April 2009 § improvisation § research ‡ Comments Off °