“Treplev’s Integral Performance” invites young professional actors, as well as actors with stage experience and high school students who are considering a career in acting and attend a theater college. The workshop is organized by Homemade Culture Association (Bucharest), in partnership with the independent theatre company Arte-Factum, in the framework of European Theatre Lab by the Theatre in Palm platform financed by Creative Europe.
Time and place
11 October 2024, 17:30- 21:30
Centre of Culture and Art of Timis County, room 34 (Timisoara, str. E.Ungureanu nr.1).
Workshop
We will explore the “theater-within-theater” moment in Chekhov’s The Seagull, with a focus on Nina’s monologue written by Treplev, and work on the actor-director relationship.
The workshop introduces actors to creative warm-up, they will learn techniques that help actors get into a state of readiness, they will analyze the text creatively to understand the intimate springs of the mechanism by which the previous situation influences the interpretation of the monologue and the following situation.
Divided into groups, the actors will direct their own monologue of Nina, techniques that develop the creativity of actors will be practiced and original approach will be encouraged.
Director
The workshop will be held by the director Levente Kocsàrdi, as an initial stage for a show with the same title that he will stage next year: “We are especially interested in the tension between the two characters, Treplev and Nina, who are young artists, at the beginning of their journey with new, original ideas and well set, conservative, skeptical of everything new, like the characters Arkadina and Trigorin.”
Levente Kocsàrdi has 26 years of stage experience as an actor and director. He is the stage director of the independent company Arte-Factum and has been directing Arte-Factum Theatrical Research and Introspection Laboratory for eight years now, which has involved more than 100 young actors and has produced several relevant independent theater productions.
