This is a practice-based research project innovating musical theatre rehearsal techniques. It is supervised by researcher, Professor Robert Allan (pictured here in the splits). The embodied research focuses on the development of inclusive and anti-oppressive musical theatre pedagogies. University of Guelph’s cast of Mean Girls create and maintain a studio of creative joy and bravery. Under Robert’s leadership, they use improvisation and serious play as collective creation techniques. The final work centres their voices as young artists, respects their individual identities on stage and off, and provokes audience expectations of what musical theatre can be and represent.
