Whose Scene Is It Anyway?
TWO DAYS OF ACTION PACKED WORKSHOPS ON COLLABORATIVE THEATRE.
PLAYMARKET have gathered on board some of the country’s most experienced and successful theatre collaborators to lead a series of five workshops exploring the creation, recording, and contracting of collaborative work.
The details:
Friday 1 – Saturday 2 JULY 2011
9am – 5pm daily
$10 per session
Travel subsidies are available for those outside of Wellington who wish to attend. CONTACT aneta@playmarket.org.nz
TE WHAEA DANCE AND DRAMA CENTRE, WELLINGTON (Drama 1 & 2)
Lunch provided: 12pm – 1pm daily
Drinks & nibbles provided: 4 – 5 daily
Session 1
Friday 1 July 9am – 12pm
Vela Manusaute and Anapela Polataivao
KILA KOKONUT KREW
Kila Kokonut Krew formed as a collective in 2005, spearheaded by Vela and Anapela. The Kila Kokonut Krew present poignant, hilarious and dangerous stories of the Pacific experience; stories told by children of the great migration to Aotearoa, and challenging the stereotypes of Pacific Islanders as bank robbers, cleaners, villains, the fat guy, broken down families and gangsters. Their 2011 works include Four Women (Centrepoint Theatre) The Factory (Mangere Arts Centre) and Kingdom of Lote (Mangere Arts Centre and Downstage Theatre)
Session 2
Friday 1 July 1pm – 4pm
Ralph Upton, Joel Baxendale & Simon Haren
BINGE CULTURE COLLECTIVE
Binge Culture Collective is a group of theatre artists, based in Wellington, creating immediate and surprising devised work with young New Zealand audiences in mind. The company believes strongly in collaboration and teamwork, and is continually exploring the encounter between performer and audience. Since forming in 2008, they've performed in theatres, at festivals, in parks and on the street, in Wellington, Dunedin, Takaka and Auckland.
Productions include Drowning Bird Plummeting Fish (2009), Storytime for the Hungry (2010), Elimination Rounds (2010) and this year’s Fringe hit This Rugged Beauty.
Session 3
Saturday 2 July 9am – 12pm
Barbarian Productions and Trouble
Jo Randerson
Barbarian Productions
Jo Randerson is a fiction writer, playwright, theatre director, performer and founder and Artistic Director of Barbarian Productions, a Wellington-based theatre production company.
The company has mounted a number of successful productions including
Good Night - The End, Peeling Back The Paint and Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong.
Andrew Foster
TROUBLE
Trouble was born in 1995 with Snooze by Duncan Sarkies. With Andrew and Jo at the helm, the company soared with The Girl Who Died, Black Monk and The Lead Wait (published by PLAYMARKET in 2010) and gained a reputation for bold, funny, original, collaborative theatre.
Most recently Andrew has worked as a director for Roger Hall’s C’mon Black (Armstrong Creative) the remounting of The Lead Wait (Circa Theatre) and Jonathan Brugh’s tour of The Second Test.
Session 4
Saturday 2 July 1pm – 4pm
Justin Lewis
Indian Ink
Justin is a founding partner of Indian Ink and has collaborated with Jacob Rajan to create all the company’s works, including Krishnan’s Dairy, The Pickle King and their latest work Guru of Chai.
He has managed numerous national and international tours of Indian Ink's productions which have won two Production of the Year Awards and two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts.
Session 5
Saturday 2 July 4pm – 5.30pm
DANZ Forum - Exploring the creative process in collaborative choreography
A forum which explores the issues around collaboration and acknowledgement of dancer contribution to the creative process.
Are there parallels between the creative process of dance and Group-devised work in theatre? for dancers on making choreography collaboratively.