Director and Practitioner Simon Pittman responds…

‘Yes. I think the Frantic Method is about an ethos, and method of creating exciting, moving and meaningful theatre you couldn’t have thought up without using the building blocks. If that then pulls in Stanislavkian Obstacles and Objectives, or becomes the process with which you create your Epic Theatre masterpiece to make the world better: go for it. There comes a point in all our rehearsal rooms where we have the exciting task of reminding those actors we trained to be movers and dancers that they are still actors!’

I would add that I am not sure any of those practitioners would have imagined a world where the work being made would have their names dominating the style (and rules) of that work. I think they probably presented systems to explore and find something truthful within theatre, even if they came at it from different angles. I think the key might be to think of them (and the Frantic Method) as a means to an end. I may be incurring the wrath of the GCSE examiner, but I like to think you could use many of the processes in the Book of Devising Theatre (Third Edition) to unlock something for you without your finished project having to look anything like a Frantic Assembly show (or what an examiner thinks a Frantic Assembly show should look like).