Collaboration and Collective Creativity: the evolution of a process of theatre-making in 12 words
Collaboration and collective creativity In 2019, I had the opportunity to explore the application of collaboration and collective creativity while directing a large-scale production of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. The full record of The Amadeus Project, Schull, can be...
Podcast 1: Chatting with Julia Zagar, artist and designer, about collaboration and creativity
The first interview in the podcast Series 1 is with Julia Zagar, friend and co-creator of Karen Minihan's for over 20 years. They have worked on many projects together, especially with PlayActing Theatre, a company that has involved their creative input with Alyn...
Vision, inspiration … and enchantment
Vision and inspiration first As a theatre-maker in my ‘prime’ (as the Irish Theatre Institute would have it), it is almost impossible to comment in a succinct way on the myriad places I have found inspiration and that have influenced my work. Recently, in my...
Podcast 2: Take a Chair: talking theatre and creativity
Chatting with Alyn Fenn, painter and writer, about inspiration and the work. This podcast features Karen Minihan in conversation with Alyn Fenn, a writer and painter, and a creative collaborator with Karen for over twenty years in projects which included:...
Close connection and understanding … and the text
CLOSE CONNECTION IN COLLABORATION 'Birds' from Amour, where Terri Leiber and Ben Townsend worked to create bird characters. (See the trailer for PlayActing Theatre's Amour featuring the birds with Camilla Griehsel, Singer and Justin Grounds, violinist.)Photo credit:...
Podcast 3: Chatting with Terri Leiber, writer and actor (actor and writer) about co-creating
A long-term co-creator with me, this chat with Terri Leiber is the third in the Series, and the final conversation with the PlayActing Theatre team. As well as acting in classic plays where I was the director, we have collaborated as writers and actors since 2011...
Finding your voice … Finding a voice …
We read to know we are not alone.Often attributed to CS Lewis, but written by William Nicholson for the screenplay Shadowlands, which was about Lewis; words that resonate. Finding your voice It was one of the hardest things for me to figure out what my voice was. I...
Podcast 4: Chatting with Jeremy Massey, writer of novels and screenplays
With twenty-five years experience in the film and writing business, Jeremy Massey gives an oversight of his creative process in working through many screenplays, one novel, published by Penguin US, The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley, an historical novel in writing,...
Podcast 5: Chatting with Ger FitzGibbon, former Head of Theatre and Drama Studies in UCC, director and writer, sometimes actor
There are many areas in which Ger FitzGibbon has been prominent in theatre in Cork city–-as one of those responsible for setting up and becoming the Head of Department of Theatre and Drama Studies as a director and writer for theatre in Cork. We focus a lot in this...
The embodiment of hearing
An old chestnut I have an unusual surname, it is not rare, though not common either; It is the spelling and the pronunciation that are rare. Where I grew up everybody was familiar with it and so there was no issue. But since I ventured further afield, I must deal...