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Collaboration and Collective Creativity: the evolution of a process of theatre-making in 12 words

by Karen | Oct 1, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

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...

Vision, inspiration … and enchantment

by Karen | Oct 15, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

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 3: Chatting with Terri Leiber, writer and actor (actor and writer) about co-creating

Podcast 3: Chatting with Terri Leiber, writer and actor (actor and writer) about co-creating

by Karen | Nov 5, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

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...
Podcast 5: Chatting with Ger FitzGibbon, former Head of Theatre and Drama Studies in UCC, director and writer, sometimes actor

Podcast 5: Chatting with Ger FitzGibbon, former Head of Theatre and Drama Studies in UCC, director and writer, sometimes actor

by Karen | Dec 3, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

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

The embodiment of hearing

by Karen | Nov 26, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

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...

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