{"id":1062,"date":"2025-12-06T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:42:36","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-devising-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Devising Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/beginners-guide-to-devising-theatre-9781350025943\/\"target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/811ySdB-z5L._SY522_-150x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/811ySdB-z5L._SY522_-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/811ySdB-z5L._SY522_-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/811ySdB-z5L._SY522_.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong>Jess Thorpe and Tashi Gore (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we&#8217;re required to start from scratch? How do we begin to make theatre using our own ideas, our own perspective, our own stories?<\/p>\n<p><em>A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Devising Theatre<\/em>, written by the artistic directors of the award-winning young people&#8217;s performance company Junction 25 and is aimed at those new to devising or wanting to further develop their skills. It explores creative ways to create original theatre from a contemporary stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>It offers a structure within which to approach the creative process, including ideas on finding a starting point, generating material, composition and design; it offers practical ideas for use in rehearsal; and it presents grounding in terminology that will support a confident and informed approach to production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Thorpe and Tashi Gore (2019) Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we&#8217;re required to start from scratch? How do we begin to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=1062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}