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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 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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