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Acknowledgements xi
An introduction 1
A very brief history of Frantic Assembly 1
The book 3
What devising means to us 5
Anthology of work 8
Part 1 Documentation 19
1 Frantic essays 21
Pre-show 21
Truth and lies-persona and performance 24
Accidents and creativity 26
What is physical theatre? (and why we hate answering that question) 29
Director/Director relationship 31
Video camera in rehearsal 33
Physical truth and characterisation 35
Insecurity, pragmatism, and admitting you were wrong! 41
Frantic music and the notion of soundtracking 44
Frantic and film 50
2 Scenes and their creation 58
Lullaby 59
Headwrecker 61
Slabslammers 65
Sunbathers 67
Heavenly Legs 69
Select Delete 72
Exhaustion 75
3 Playing with scenes 79
Lovebench 79
Guyscrapers 82
Stockholm Fight 84
Part 2 Practical Exercises 91
4 Getting started 93
Initial movement sessions 93
Trust 94
The importance of rules, time frames and limitations 94
Suggestions for Constructive Warm-Ups 99
Rolling 1 99
Rolling 2 102
Push Hands 105
Games-A Selection of Crowd Pleasers 106
Marcia Takedown 106
Quad 109
Quad Jump 111
Clear the Space 114
Relays 117
Eye contact 121
Jump Tag 123
5 Choreography 125
What we mean by 'choreography' 125
Stopping Points and Connections 128
Round/By/Through 131
Sign Describe 135
Movement for Non-Dancers/Choreography That Doesn't Feel Like Dance 140
Chair Duets 141
Get Ready 144
Ways into basic lifting techniques 148
New Physical Vocabulary/Restrictions and Freedom 149
Sell Out Floor/Caterpillar 149
Dirty Ballroom 152
Advanced Exercises-Pushing the Potential 155
Hymns Hands 155
Stockholm Bed 160
Devising choreography for site-specific theatre 163
6 Devising with words-devising through images 169
Words as starting points-working physically with text 169
The questionnaire and devising from a theme 175
The 'It Snows' model 184
Stockholm day one and the Stockholm recipe 191
Actions speak louder than words? 195
Working with writers 197
7 Textual analysis 204
Getting Scenes on Their Feet 204
The Lecture 204
The VF exercise 205
Physical Characters and Relationships 207
Time Passing 208
Rabbit Room 210
Stockholm Post-Its 212
Playing with words: Leg of Lamb 214
8 Some things to think about 216
Bibliography of inspiration 218
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Chadd Johnson
reviewed Frantic Book of Devising Theatre on May 13, 2016
Frantic Book of Devising Theatre
Exercises described are contextualized through accounts of Frantic Assembly's shows, thus not one-offs, but you can see how they transpose physical movement into theatrical storytelling. Would have appreciated an appendix list of music for exercises that the authors refer to in describing many examples - it's named, just scattershot throughout the chapters. Also, it helped me to go online and look for video of the exercises to expand comprehension of how to implement some details of their working methods. I also would have appreciated a kind of "skeleton" outline of the move by move steps for each exercise to have in hand as reference when working with a group. Nevertheless, the physical ideas they relay as springboards for a more physically engaged theatrical form is illuminating.
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