A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre by Jess Thorpe and Tashi Gore

A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre, by the artistic directors of award-winning Glaswegian youth performance group, Junction 25, is a practical introduction to the creative process of theatre-making.

Organised in three parts, part one of the book takes us through the writers' backgrounds and provides a powerful manifesto for collaborative work, while asking big questions about voice-finding and the purpose of art. Part 2 moves on to a practical seven-stage guide to devising, from exercises to build a group dynamic, through approaches to framing and staging, text-making and use of image, all the way to technical advice on production and sharing the work with an audience. Finally, in Part 3, the authors round out the book's perspective on devising by offering a series of interviews with other practitioners.