Workshops
IMPROVISATION AND DEVISING
WORKSHOPS with NATALIE KATSOU
SUPPORTED BY THEATRE LAB COMPANY
WEEKEND 1
• Saturday 17/5, 11.00-14.00: ABUSE
photos and articles
• Sunday 18/5, 11.00-14.00: AVENGE/REVENGE
classical monologues
Location: Royal Inn on the Park /
111 Lauriston Road /Hackney / London E9 7HJ
WEEKEND 2
• Saturday 7/6, 11.00-14.00: SUPERNATURAL/ METAPHYSICAL
stories / legends + objects.
• Sunday 8/6, 11.00-14.00: ROOTLESS/ EXILE
personal notes or write a short story
Location: Royal Inn on the Park /
111 Lauriston Road /Hackney / London E9 7HJ
WEEKEND 3
• Saturday 14/6, 11.00-14.00: MEDEA MATERIAL
Dialogues and monologues from all “Medea” texts
• Saturday 21/6, 11.00-14.00: PUT TOGETHER
Compilation from the material and Presentation of the new piece
Location: Etcetera Theatre Camden / 265 Camden High Street / NW1 7BU
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Cost: £15 per day of workshop, or any 3 for £42
Booking and info: [email protected]
INSPIRED BY “MEDEA”
NATALIE KATSOU IS ORGANISING A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS
KINDLY SUPPORTED BY THEATRE LAB COMPANY
The devising steps from choosing everyday material to creating short scenes and from there, leading to a complete new piece.
Medea is a very rich and irresistible play; its subjects are most prominent and, perhaps, untouchable clichés; they will provide the structure for our work.
Through Active Textual and Contextual Analysis and Synthesis (ATCAS) we will be using material from the news and contemporary everyday life, classical texts, poetry and our own personal writing, creating our own studio performance.
Our tools for the improvisation techniques are movement and corporal expression, use of space and objects, as well as sound-scape.
All skills are welcome. ayone can join in as many workshops as they wish.
First presentation on the material that we will gather, is scheduled for 21/6.
NATALIE KATSOU is a Freelance Theatre Director
(recent credits: “Wolf Kisses”/Arcola Theatre, “Trial by Jury”/ University of Greenwich and “Turning To Stone”/Etcetera Camden and upcoming tour) and the Artistic Director of Operaview Company.
She has directed theatre and opera in the UK, Greece and Turkey.
She has been giving workshops on Improvisation &Devising,
Contact Improvisation, as well as in Youth Theatre Projects
(En Spoudi, East15 Acting School, Arcola Theatre) since 2008.
“Turning To Stone” is a solo piece on the myth of Medusa, an idea by the performer Stefanie Mavrokordatou. A workshop that Natalie gave at Riverside Studios in March 2014 triggered their collaboration and the devising process . www.nataliekatsou.com; www.operaview.org
Booking and info: please contact [email protected]
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*photos by Yiannis Katsaris/ featuring Stefanie Mavrokordatou