A practical seminar
Experiential Theatre
Schedule
Leader Saško Brama (UA)
During five four-hour meetings between October 15th and 19th 2020 at 10.00 on the Chamber State of the SNT Maribor, Sashko Brama will present the theoretical foundations, process and challenges of two projects, Fall on Pluto and Orpheus UA, and at the end also introduce his quarantine project in development, WE. The participants take in picturesque and emotive content via visuals and study the process of transformation and collected experiences into socio-critical art projects with an
emphasis on concrete transformational challenges.
The seminar concludes with a debate onOctober 20th 2020 at 10.00 on the Chamber stage of the SNT Maribor, which is aimed at reflection and exchange of experience, and particularly point the attention to personal starting points and complex documentary approaches that lead into engaged performative communication.
About leader
Sashko Brama is a Ukrainian playwright and director of a younger generation. He works in the field of experimental documentary theatre. He graduated in theatre directing from the Faculty of Arts and Culture of the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv. His graduation project was a critical study of the Ukrainian education system. He reflected the political situation in Ukraine in his performative concert R+J and in a documentary project Call Sign Rama. He defines his work as theatre experiences – creativity is based on his personal life experience into which he delves when faced with the topic he is dealing with: when he was researching the topic of ageing, dementia and (un)fulfilled longings, he and a team of co-creators regularly visited residential homes for the elderly; he conceived a multimedia project that followed a seven-month expedition along the Ukrainian border; during the epidemic his response to the newly established distance was a global multi-media project of short documentaries, set into a mosaic of individual quarantine stories. He writes plays, among them Pork Liver (2011), COMA (2012) and iDream (2013).
The seminar is connected to the production Fall on Pluto – the performance on October 14th 2020 at 20.00 and the discussion with the creators afterwards are the starting point to learn about the experiential principles of performative procedures.
