Workshop | Mathilde Benignus — Documentary theater: Transposing reality onto the stage

OBJECTIF

This workshop covers several concrete examples of documentary theater, chosen for their subject and their deliberately very different forms.

Participants will explore their ideas and sketch out a project through practical exercises. We’ll look at the stages involved in getting a project off the ground, multidisciplinary work, working with different communities of people and the ethics involved in this discipline.

CONTENT

Following a lecture-style format with practical and stimulating examples, the workshop will move into a practical mode with research-creation exercises, guided explorations, interviews between participants and collective and personal writing.

Several points will be addressed:

How to choose a subject? What angle to take? How to conduct field research? How to prepare and frame interview questions? What forms should be used for what subjects? Working with actors or non-professionals? How to transpose documentary material for the stage? What ethical questions should be asked during the process?