The creative process of developing an original dramaturgical concept and designing an experimental musical theatre performance: experiment, method and theory.

In the nowadays musical theatre education and profession, the study and performing material is mainly generated from the repertoire of Westend and Broadway productions. The tendence to encourage and coach young musical artists to develop their own ideas into rather small scale, but stage worthy creations, gains support by government and local producers by acknowledging the talent of the own soil.
Three studies were conducted.
Study 1 provides a theoretical and conceptual framework based on literature and music input: the script of Pool (no water) of Mark Ravenhill and the music oeuvre by George Michael.
Study 2 includes guided experimental joint improvisations towards character developing and story telling
Study 3 provides methodological and pedagogical conclusions by analyzing this experiment based on the abovementioned strategies and working process.
Research questions of study 3 are:
- how to stimulate the creative skills of graduating students/young artists in an efficient collaboration
- how to provide tools to shift, assemble and transform research material in order to write a theatre script.
- how to educate musical students into motivated researchers, critical reflectors and autonomous artists