Many poets, artists, musicians, choreographers, contributed to the result, but it was she who was the inventor, one might perhaps say, the producer; she who had the ladies of her court trained to perform these ballets in settings of her devising.
The National Theatre Scotland/Live Theatre hit, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, will play the Dorfman in August as part of its tour, and Sally Cookson will be directing in the Olivier this Christmas with a co-production with Bristol Old Vic of Peter Pan, a reworked version of her devised show seen at Bristol in 2012.
She will need all of those qualities and more when she confronts what could be her first major test — possibly the most vexing of her tenure — devising a workable and broadly acceptable solution to the grave threats facing the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest.
She has a frustrated need for drama - drama of her own devising.
She is a searcher, a female Kerouac on a road of her own devising.
Later, she answered reader mail under a name of her own devising: Owen Ketherry, an anagram of The New Yorker.
It is her first documentary, yet one that sows seeds of a nascent form of her own devising.
Harriet, like Brodie, preaches freedom of expression while moulding her charges to a prescriptive philosophy of her own devising.
Ula Einstein draws with thread and fine wire, weaving delicate, minimal patterns of her own devising onto sheets of drawing paper.
After several false starts, she hit upon her signature minstrel mode, playing all the characters in one-woman musical comedies of her own devising.
Ms. Zendora wore robes that made her resemble a priestess in "Touching the Invisible," a solo to a taped score of her own devising.
