.Quimera Theatre Collective

We don't enter the rehearsal period with a script that is set in stone. For us, a script must respond and adapt to the people who will bring it to life. This is why we like to produce our own work! In the past we have done site specific collective devising: through games and activities we construct a play designed specifically for the site where it will be performed. We let the location, our natural stage (be it an alleyway or a playground), mold the story and the visual architecture of the final product. Site specific theatre gives audiences a unique immersive experience through theatre that escapes the theatre and mingles with real life. 

 

More recently, with Death of A Playwright, we have been exploring the relationship between playwright, director, dramaturge, and performers to build a script. The structure and process of drama is very important to us, and we each try to bring dramaturgical thinking to our particular job; this means asking questions, probing the choices made for the script, and trying to take nothing for granted  . As the script is written by our playwright, it is informed by readings we do as an ensemble and research provided by dramaturge and actors. The play was cast long before the script was ready, allowing the playwright to shape the characters with the actors in mind, and allowing the actors to become comfortable and familiar with their characters as they are built.