An interview with FK CO-LAB, an international female-led team who are bringing a story of cultural diversity staged through exploring recipes. They share their thoughts on the staging process, dramaturgy and tech for Fringe shows.
You have vulnerabilities which you are probably very skilled at avoiding ever putting into action, because why poke the thing that hurts? Intuitively, though, you must know that they are the very things that are holding you back. I’m not talking about missing the skill, I’m talking about avoiding certain aspects of life altogether. From personal experience I can say that even just an attempt to overcome those vulnerabilities enriches you immensely as a professional.
“Bare Threads”, a physical theatre piece did exceptionally well, not least due to great marketing. I had an opportunity to chat to the producer, Jennifer Jones, about organisation, marketing strategies and well-being during the festival season.
“Theatre is becoming a little bit more than a theatre. It’s not just a place where there is a stage, and there are plays, where you can watch Shakespeare and Chekhov. For instance, Serebrennikov has been running Gogol Centre, which is a real Centre, a Centre for the younger generation of people. Serebrennikov attracted a certain kind of audience by his productions, exhibitions, the space he created: a cultural place for meetings and discussions.” – Konstantin Kamenski
The Russian audience tends to resist new forms of theatre as if their life depended on it. Yet, it seems in the eyes of the government theatre has grown to be more and more of an inconvenience.
It’s now been 5 month since I was a real director, and here are some of the things that I find helpful when you are in a limbo state between being a theatre maker and that annoying friend who directed that play month ago and won’t stop talking about it.
Looking back at it, I’ve been full-on working on this project at least from September (not counting the years I’ve spent swooning over the rights). Here are six things I learned to do/not do as a director.
My notes from my Novermber workshop on naturalistic theater. I believe that knowledge and understanding of theater history essential in general but naturalism especially is one of those things that will really up your game as a director. Naturalism was the starting point of the theatrical stage and style of acting that we mostly see on […]