ABSTRACT

This chapter provides some tools and methods based on my personal methodology as a working dramaturg within performance practice developed over 20 years as a full-time dramaturg. My experiences underpinning these tools and methods come predominantly from the field of new writing, dance and devising for the stage working in the UK and Ireland. In this chapter, I will share two approaches relevant to the practitioner researcher of interrogating their ideas and their own process through dramaturgical questions. The chapter will look at some tension that might arise in the transition from practice to practice-research.