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Tyrone and Lesley in a Spot is a 60-minute intermedial show combining screen and song in performance which has a very musical question at its heart: ‘can a whole show be like a song?’ Ostensibly a concert presentation, its covert intermedial complexities emerged in ‘a unique piece of theatre […] a performance that knows it’s a performance’ (Sullivan 2016). The show’s development was characterized by a distinct provisionality based in a dialogue between plasticity of structure in the writing, and plasticity of form in the making. Axial thinking (Eno 1996) helped manipulate the variables at play in critical moments of the performance. Creative discoveries were identified as ‘within domain’ (Katz and Gardner in Hargreaves, Miell & MacDonald 2012: 110) firmly locating the show as a project of Composed Theatre. In a highly musicalized creative process many elements were allowed to emerge rather than being predetermined, and this revealed a range of principles of interest to makers of intermedial performance.

type	research exposition
keywords	Composed Theatre, Intermediality, Collaboration, Axial Thinking, Plasticity, Ukulele
date	09/03/2017
last modified	24/03/2020
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/341729/341730
external link	https://vimeo.com/190208430

name	David Megarrity and Samuel Vincent as Tyrone and Lesley
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name	Figure 2 Creative Development Moths
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name	IMG_5985
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name	MEB Realised
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name	MEB V1
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	InASpotProductionHR-7
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	smile-halffull-dream storyboard1
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name	Tyrone side elvation
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	moon-song-wd
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	open-closing-show-wd
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	dream-half-full-wd
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name	Lightbulb test
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	Tyrone and Lesley in a Spot- Early Drawings
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	Tyrone and Lesley in a Spot (first promo)
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name	Tyrone and Lesley in a Spot- Interaxial Taxonomy
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	Bouncing Ball Experiment
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	Tyrone & Lesley In a Spot - Promo Video (1)
copyright	David Megarrity
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name	David Megarrity
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