Devoted and Disgruntled 5 Report

[Phelim McDermott]

Dear OS List friends.


It's amazing but it is now five years since I first dived into Open  
Space after reading Harrison's book. At that time I had never been to  
an open space event had no idea what it looked like but knew it in my  
bones.Since then we have done  Devoted and Disgruntled 5 times and  
done one in Scotland, one Brazil, one in  in NYC and one in Newcastle  
will be doing another one In Newcastle in the coming months. Been  
asked to set one up in LA etc.. its become a growing community of  
people who are devoted to theatre and want to use the fuel of their  
disgruntlement to change.

I remember that the thing that really inspired me to read the book in  
the first place was Harrison's intro saying OS belonged to everyone  
and would never be certified/owned/contained etc we should all just do  
it. It reminded me of my own feelings about Impro and its relationship  
to the many attempts to categories, teach, quantify it. In the end  
Impro just was and would appear where it wanted. It also reminded me  
of Robert Le Page's advice to "Mummenchance" theatre that they must  
"Give away the recipe." He was referring specifically to the recipe  
for their squidgy changing putty like masks. But he meant this as a  
wider metaphor to look after our own creativity. We must gift the  
recipe not guard it.


In this spirit here's our fifth annual report on the state of people  
who are passionate and responsible about theatre. The event is an  
annual 2.5 event on  third day we reopen the space for whatever people  
want to still talk about and do.

So here's the report
http://devotedanddisgruntled5.blogspot.com/

and here's a visual representation done from the report by wordle  
which i love.  It's a big theatre word sitting in a nexus of other  
issues! I think it gives a better feeling representation of the event  
than the report.

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1630581/D%26D5



Yay!!!!

love and thanks for your support to do this in the first place.

Phelim 

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