Reflections on the messages we feed young artists Setting: National Youth Theatre, August 2010. I am 17 years old and away in London for two weeks (!) to take part in the National Youth Theatre (NYT) training course. I am beyond excited! Bright-eyed and bubbling with enthusiasm. I get to meet and train with teenagers […]
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Feelingthoughts on Ming Poon’s The Intervention of Loneliness. Friday 6th December at Ufer Studios, Wedding Ming Poon’s performance The Intervention of Loneliness simultaneously asks us to consider disconnection in the world we live in and to take a chance to perhaps feel its antithesis. In the piece, Poon asks a room full of strangers to volunteer to come into contact first with him
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This article was commissioned by the Danish National Paper for Drama Teachers. What springs to mind when you think of Shakespeare? Maybe you imagine complicated and archaic plays; remembering school days and English classes where you were forced to decode the language, wondering all the while, “How is this relevant?” Or perhaps you think of
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Thoughts inspired by group therapy and two works of Jérôme Bel: The show must go on at the Volksbühne (Großes Haus, Jan 2018) & Gala at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1, April 2017) It’s over half a decade ago: April 2012. After having a very difficult first year of university, I sign myself up for one term
in Minefield directed by Lola Arias & made/performed by Lou Armour, David Jackson, Ruben Otero, Sukrim Rai, Gabriel Sagastume & Marcello Vallejo at the Royal Court Theatre (Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, 2-11.11.2017) An Argentine veteran of the Falklands/Malvinas war is telling the audience a story. It is a personal story, taken from his direct experiences of the
Thoughts inspired by Report from the Interior by Eliza Rescue Team. Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU 3, 25-26/10/17) Why do we create? There’s no definite way of answering this question. I know that. However, this is the question that was ringing in my ears when I left the theatre on Wednesday night, after having seen Report
Exploring Frutas Afrodisíacas by Simon(e) J. Paetau, Jair Luna, Iury Trojaborg, Michaela Muchina and Laura Paetau at Ballhaus Naunynstraße (18-20.10.2017) One of the reasons I loved Frutas Afrodisíacas is because I am fascinated in the area of theatre geography. This summer I read for the first time Alan Reed’s Theatre and Everyday Life (1993), and was struck by
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Reflections on Du Kannst Nicht Mehr Warten? (You Can’t Wait Anymore?) by Die Aktionist*innen at the Maxim Gorki Theater (Studio Я, 11 & 12 October 2017) The lights go up and we see a young man centre stage, sat with his back to the audience. After a long pause, we notice that he is beginning to
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