Iced vovos: a one act play [Play script]
Textual work
Title | Iced vovos: a one act play [Play script] |
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Type of Work | Textual work |
Creator/Contributor | McDonald, Janet (Author) and Baker, Dallas (Author) |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher or Commissioning Body | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | United kingdom |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2017.1417446 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14790726.2017.1417446 |
Description of Work | This script was developed through a collaborative process. A work of stream-of-consciousness prose reflecting on Iced VoVos, an iconic Australian confectionery, penned by Janet McDonald constitutes the heart of the script. This piece was adapted to script form by Dallas Baker, who created characters through which Janet's prose could come to life. The explorative questions that emerged when Dallas and Janet began discussing the adaptation of the text focussed on memory and embodied experience. As the collaboratively led inducement of material developed, the period of ‘handing over’ the prose for adaptation engaged ghosting that resisted what Diana Taylor calls ‘the archive’. This is a place relegated in theatre to where performative ideas take concrete form, often as a written script that can be ‘published’, and therefore maintains an emphasis on discourse to manifest creative enterprise, rather than the lived experience of the performance of the work. What emerged from the collaboration was a script that took the prose in a different, unexpected yet intriguing, direction. This research was therefore more about exploring the relational aspects of working together. In this sense the knowledge produced by this research collaboration manifests Taylor's ‘repertoire’ (rather than ‘archive’) of performance and relates to the richness of both collaborative experience and the creative outcomes arising from that experience. |
Keywords | playwriting, scriptwriting as research, collaboration, collaborative writing, ghosting, memory, performance theory |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Journal Title | New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing |
Volume | 15 |
Page Range | 224-230 |
Number of Pages | 7 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
ISSN | 1479-0726 |
1943-3107 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4927/iced-vovos-a-one-act-play-play-script
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