The actor Richard Katz on clowning, writing and devising

The actor and writer Richard Katz tells us about devising work, the creative space between play and playtext and the joys of being a clown. In devised work, Richard tells us, everyone directs, and there is no power structure in which the director is in charge of a group of actors. Clowning involves being in the moment, escaping the Freudian need to ask why a character does something.

This film is a fascinating insight on theatre from a performer who has worked across The Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Complicité, Told By an Idiot and Improbable.