ABSTRACT
If you have something you wish to say, it is not so difficult to find out how to say it.
(Hilary Westlake, Artistic Director of Lumiere & Son) The most fundamental requirement for devising theatre is a passion or desire to say something, a need to question or make sense of a starting point that encourages you to investigate further through a variety of processes and close enquiry. It is essential to identify the potential tools of devising that can be used to search, shape and structure the investigative route to be taken. It is also necessary to make early decisions with regard to how the group will operate throughout the devising process. This involves choices about how working structures relate to recognised roles or responsibilities of individuals within a company, as well as selecting the most appropriate approach to the work or employing processes that seem relevant to the particular situation.
