Dear Heart

dear heart is an autoethnographic exploration around playwriting and creation processes. dear heart as an artistic offering is the textual record of the text-based experiment upon which this thesis is predicated. The thesis itself is a distillation around the methodology of the author’s process – a shareable articulation to serve as a bedrock for educational material in professional and academic settings. The author will articulate theoretical and analytical reflections of the role of instinct and positionality in the creation of performance texts, and to apply consciousness to the often-subconscious impulses of creation. The author interrogates the role of adaptation and community curiosity as methodology for other playwrights, through research into relational aesthetics and curational theory from visual art.