The Mosaic Scale: Dramaturgical Thinking Workshop in Bristol. | Puppet Place

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The Mosaic Scale: Intro to Dramaturgical Thinking Workshop. Emily is an exceptionally knowledgeable, curious and adventurous dramaturg. Asked all the right questions, accepted my silly answers and enabled my mischief. Julian Brett (Theatre maker) I thoroughly enjoyed the course and felt it broadened my understanding of dramaturgy. I look forward to implementing the mosaic scale in my own work, and I feel ready and able to develop my own dramaturgical practice after attending the course. Previous Mosaic Scale course participant.This course will give you some tools to equip you with a process you can follow to dramaturg your own work and the work of others.This is an INTRODUCTORY course. Over Saturday and Sunday we will look at different aspects of dramaturgical thinking but whether the focus is on literary dramaturgy or process dramaturgy there will be practical ways to apply it to your own work if you are a writer or theatre maker. What we will look at: Saturday. 1: Introduction to dramaturgy. What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it? How do you even pronounce it? 2: Getting the write right. Introducing the literary dramaturgy version of The Mosaic Scale. Formalist processes and existing exercises the writer or theatre maker might like to use when starting to dramaturg their or someone else’s script or early in the devising process. Lunch. 3: The process of process. Exploring The Mosaic Scale system for devised theatre and process dramaturgy. Collaborative theatre making as dramaturgy and dramaturgy as collaboration.This will also look at the writer as collaborator. Exercises, considerations and questions to develop and dramaturg a theatre production during the devising process and in rehearsal. Sunday. 1:Spaces and faces. This session looks at the audience. What are the needs and considerations for specific performance spaces? What do audiences want? 2:Really feeling it now. Phenomenology and viscerality on the page and on the stage. The uncanny, the visceral, and how to encourage these responses from your audience. Lunch. 3: Style and substance is an introduction to dramaturgy and ethos. Where are you coming from as a dramaturg? The circularity inherent to dramaturgical thinking is covered as we wrap up the course and bring it all together. Who am I? Emily is a theatre maker, writer & dramaturg with a specialism in puppetry. She is co-founder of Croon productions puppet company, their work has been seen in London, on tour across the UK, Berlin, Prague and Minneapolis. Having worked extensively as a performance lecturer in HE and FE and for the educational provision of theatres, (Bristol Old Vic, Tobacco Factory Thetre, Roses theatre). She has taught at Derby University, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Bath Spa University & Bristol University. For over 20 years she has written, directed and dramaturged projects in theatre, puppetry, reminiscence theatre, youth theatre, and TIE. Emily holds a Doctorate in Scriptwriting & Dramaturgy and a Masters in scriptwriting (Distinction) from Bath Spa University. Throughout her research she created the Mosaic Scale, a 5-step active dramaturgical process to develop and refine a script. Her guidebook to dramaturgy, 1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking, will be published by Routledge in 2024. Emily is a board member of Dramaturgs Network. Information Source: Dr. Emily LeQuesne | eventbrite