Gruppeprosesser og faseinndeling i egenskapt teater

This article shows how dividing into different phases in devised theatre production can be used as a tool to structure and accommodate a creative group-devised process. The article starts by giving a brief outline of devised theatre, its genealogy and roots with regard to developing new ways of organising creative work. A theoretical framework is developed by using Lev Vygotsky’s Theory of Creativity, and his outline of the nature of the creative circle is adapted into four different phases for the devising processes. These phases are: 1) The starting point, where ideas are generated through group improvisations; 2) the phase when the material is explored and developed into more concrete material. In the third phase 3), the material is structured and formed, and in the last phase 4), the creative material is given its final form and performed in front of an audience. In addition to this, the article focuses on how devised work can be organised by dividing the various tasks and roles in the production in alternative ways.