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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...
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 4: Chatting with Jeremy Massey, writer of novels and screenplays

Podcast 4: Chatting with Jeremy Massey, writer of novels and screenplays

by Karen | Nov 19, 2020 | Take a Chair––talking theatre and creativity

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

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...

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