{"id":3829,"date":"2022-10-11T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:54","slug":"aus-professor-devised-theater-making-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/aus-professor-devised-theater-making-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS Professor: Devised Theater making comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Abdullah Al-Tekreeti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 American University of Sharjah Theatre Professor, Anthony Tassa, said that Devised Theatre, the oldest form of theatre, has made a comeback during an interview in AUS on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tassa said, \u201cthe first forms of theatre were just simple storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, Devised Theatre, a form of theatre that relies on the director and actors solely without a playwright, has made a comeback while the film industry fell into repetitiveness. Devised Theatre also relies heavily on physical movements more so than dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Tassa affirmed that the impulsive nature of Devised Theatre protects it from being formulaic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also recommended \u201cMarat\/Sade\u201d as an introduction to Devised Theatre for those who are unfamiliar with the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abdullah Al-Tekreeti UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 American University of Sharjah Theatre Professor, Anthony Tassa, said that Devised Theatre, the oldest form of theatre, has made a comeback during an interview in AUS on Oct. 11. Tassa said, \u201cthe first forms of theatre were just simple storytelling.\u201d According to him, Devised Theatre, a form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,30,17,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-3829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-cas","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}