Our Next Work: A Devised Piece
About the show:
Three of Cups is a new theatre company, focusing on methodology-driven, ensemble-based work, inspired by theorists and practitioners such as Viola Spolin and Anne Bogart. This show will be the first step in developing our practice and methodology, and the actors who participate in this process will have a huge impact on the identity of the company and its future process. Together, the cast will create, write, refine, rehearse, and perform an entirely devised show.
The concept for the show is drawn from the work and theories of Friedrich Durrenmatt, a Swiss playwright from the 20th century whose absurd, macabre plays reflected the world he lived in, one increasingly dominated by fascism and violence. Rather than tackle one of his plays directly, we will build our own piece, rooted in (but not defined by) his theories, and reflected through our own complex world.
It’s difficult to predict exactly how the play will be shaped until we start generating material with our ensemble, but we are interested in capturing a sense of the wider American cataclysm, the chaos of our fractured media landscape, American cultural archetypes and iconography, doomsday prophecy, and nuclear proliferation.