The process of developing a plan for our devised piece was interesting because while I would consider most of my group members (myself included) to be planners, we were all cautious, and insisted to each other that we didn't want to restrict ourselves at all in the creative development process. This resulted in us rejecting a Story play as a basic structure, and leaning in the direction of a Theme play. I believe this is partially because several of us have experience devising a Theme play from last year's Commedia piece. Character play and Setting play were also considered, but we kept returning to the episodic theme-based format in our discussion. As for a four-part plan (Preparation, Exploration, Shaping and Realization), we felt nearly complete with the Preparation phase, and recorded that we had done quite a lot of brainstorming to "identify common interests and themes." This manifested in several large swathes of butcher paper currently taped to a window and the establishment of several group obsessions. In detailing our plans for Phase II, we couldn't think of a better way to describe our ideal environment that with the word already used: "exploration." We want to be able to experiment through improvisation, yes, but we also want to look into ideas individually and then simply discuss them to see where it takes us; we want to sit in silence for four minutes and write about our reactions; we want to explore. The goal for this section is to define our creative direction. Beyond this, we were hesitant to set a specific path, as we want to get to know our material a bit more first. We can revisit Shaping and Realization plans once we are set on what type of play we are devising, and have a better idea of what it will entail to get there.
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