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IB Theatre - Collaborative Project (first assessment 2024): Wrights & Sites

This guide provides resources for the Collaborative Project external assessment task for IB Theatre (first assessment 2024).

Wrights & Sites

A Misguide to Milton Keynes

(3:09)  Site Specific theatre morphs into urban adventure as Wrights and Sites jump blindfolded into the back of a taxi in the middle of the night at Milton Keynes and ask to be driven to 'the edge of the city.'

Site-Specific Theatre - Wrights and Sites 1 (Provisional Lessons)

(10:21) A look at Exeter-based theatre collective Wrights and Sites. This first video explores Phil Smith's early revelations from their 'The Quay Thing'.

Site-Specific Theatre - Wrights and Sites 2 (Mythogeography in Brief)

(6:36) A look at Exeter-based theatre collective Wrights and Sites. This video focuses on the concept of Mythogeography and discusses what we might use it for. (Mythogeography refers to the myths and/or folklore associated with a place. It is a term used to refer to the fusion of history and geography in terms of myth and memory.

Historic Motivations for Site-Specific Theatre 1 - Experimentation

(9:42) An introduction to the historical motivations for theatre and performance makers to venture outside municipal theatres and into chosen sites. This video focuses on the first of three motivations: experimentation, protest and to reach new audiences.

Site-Specific Theatre - Wrights and Sites 3 (Mis-Guides as Practical Strategy)

(9:10) A look at Exeter-based theatre collective Wrights and Sites. This video explores the company's Mis-Guides and how theatre makers might employ them as fieldwork for their own developing practice.

Site-Specific Theatre - Terms and Definitions 1

(8:29) This video deals with a couple of existing definitions of site-specific Theatre and it also discusses some of the problems with them.

Site-Specific Theatre - Terms and Definitions 2

(14:31) This video discusses the scale of site-specificity that Wrights and Sites put forward and the problems with such attempts to categorize this kind of work. It then explores the word 'site' in more detail.

Site-Specific Theatre - Terms and Definitions 3 (Space, Place and Non-Place)

(11:53) A brief recap of the main points so far and a more detailed discussion of the word 'site'.

         

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