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To begin you must understand that devising is not a genre or a style. It is methods and ways of working that are as innumerable as the projects that are devised. It is entirely possible to devise a realistic, linear narrative story play. It is not the usual mode of production for this genre or set of conventions. Nor is that the usual end product for this way of working. But it is certainly possible. Devising allows the theatre makers to start with what they have--be that bodies in a space, an idea, an object, an image, a song, a story, a gesture, a kiss, a fart, an explosion, any combination of these and so many more not listed. To start here and move towards an unknown endpoint that is probably a public performance of some sort. It is not the endpoint that can signal that the piece was devised. It is the method and way of working toward the end that was arrived at that will mark a performance as devised. There is no blueprint or roadmap. There is a series of impulses and chance encounters and fuck ups. There is fumbling in the dark to just make something happen. Because as long as something is happening, then it seems to be moving in the right direction. Even if that right direction changes from moment to moment so that you end up where you started from. But you will have gone through all of that space to go from here to here again. And something will be different in that here.--GM