Had an intriguing conversation with a playwright yesterday about a creative methodology for collaboration called RSVP cycles. A quick search for this term unearthed a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP_cycles in which this theory is attributed to Anna and Lawrence Halprin and Jim Burns.
The letters in the acronym RSVP stands for:
Resources: anything we have to make a production happen. Money, space, time, actors, director, etc.
Score: the written guidelines for performing the production.
Valuation: reviewing process of the work. Rehearsals, notes, re-writes.
Performance: running the piece.
The point the playwright was making to me was that every creation of a project follows these same steps, and could be applied to a project I execute in my career in finance or in my creative pursuit as an actor and producer. Fascinating stuff!
