In preparing for their upcoming play, “Deal With It!,” members of the Allen Community College theatre department are foregoing the usual safety net of a script and are launching themselves boldly onto the emancipated — if, occasionally, terrifying — air of “devised theatre.”
This form of playmaking relies on the actors as creators. There is no pre-existing script. There is no memorized dialogue. The plot doesn’t, necessarily, obey a prefigured arc. Actors spend weeks in rehearsal, improvising scenes that circle around a suite of themes. They…
Allen theater students create and star in original production
