16THE EVOLUTION OF PROPER JOBWorking with Meyerhold in the Contemporary British Theatre

James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110804-25

James Beale and Chloe Whitehead are the directors of Proper Job Theatre based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK and have been creating theatre inspired by the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold for almost a quarter of a century. There are very few companies in the world that can claim such an extensive engagement with Meyerholdian Biomechanics. Their journey is not simply one of learning the technique of Biomechanics and then applying them in a superficial manner to a given text but a sustained investigation into what makes theatre work, drawing on a range of styles and practitioners ...

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