Responsive Research: Investigating Theatre for Young People

Abstract

/ can't accurately describe what takes place in the rehearsal room because it depends on what happens in front of me. This determines how I react and how I channel what I witness. Rehearsals are complex and organic processes which defy definition as much as they resist formal or intellectual structure... My role (as a director) is to create conditions for free exploration. I think it's correct to say that every actor needs to be directed differently ... This is why it's always hard to give a description of rehearsals. It's like asking Picasso what he painted. If there is an answer, it lies in what he removed, scribbled out or painted over.'