Devising a multimedia production

Watch a video diary from One Man, Two Guvnors to see improvisation within the rehearsal room.

What is a devised media production?

Director Howard Davies and actors Charity Wakefield, Mark Bonnar and Zoe Wanamaker talk about method and processes of acting for Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

Improvisation is a useful tool in the rehearsal room. Daniel Rigby takes us into the rehearsal room for One Man Two Gunvors.

In one of Katie Mitchell's multimedia productions, one actor may find itself representing the voice of one character, the head of a second and the arm of a third. Meanwhile, a fourth actor might be manipulating lights and a video camera to relay the image to projection screens.

Each script is unique, like an Elizabethan cue script

Voice work on Ophelia’s speech.

Deconstructing the Friar’s speech in Much Ado About Nothing

Embodying prose from Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan

Voice coach Jeannette Nelson works on Hamlet speech with actor Ferdinand Kingsley.