If you come across a group of people in a classroom shaking like a leaf or attempting to be a tree in a forest fire, or a whale on two legs – it might seem like an exorcism in process to your bewildered eyes. However, you are most likely to be witnessing a movement-based class…
Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Francis Ford Coppola, and Federico Fellini. These are just some of the greatest filmmakers of a generation who began telling stories in the theatre. The two mediums, for as long as they have been around, have been inextricably linked to each other. Closer home, actors have always been at the forefront…
Live Art makes space for experimental processes, practices, bodies and identities that are perhaps excluded from conventional contexts. More than being a specific form or discipline, live art is a way of thinking about art, what it can do and how it can be experienced. It can be in a gallery, a theatre, a city…
Building the New Generation of Theatre-makers… Requires a Communications Consultant, Course Advisor and Fundraising Associate unlike any other. The past year has given us a chance to renew our commitment to the acting and theatre-making community by finding new, more resilient ways to train. The range and reach of our activities have expanded. And…
Artistic expression has long played a crucial role in how we learn, teach, communicate and heal. As per the World Health Organization, health is a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The global body has also funded over 3000 studies investigating the role of…
Kicking off the Season 5 of Unrehearsed Futures, we had guest curator Illia Abeliashev, an active member of the Vakhteri playback group from Ukraine in conversation with fellow Ukrainian playback artists Alisa Volkova and Olena Kalashnykova. Emphasising on theatre’s role in social transformation, this season we look at how we can transition from dialogue to…
It was December 2007. Kenyan storyteller, dramatist, orator and theatre-maker Ogutu Muraya was in busy pursuing his higher studies in international relations and diplomacy with an interest in environmental studies when the violence in his country broke out. Kenya was in the middle of a contentious presidential election that year. The then-Opposition-leader Raila Odinga (who…
As the spectre of genocide increases in Gaza, we at Unrehearsed Futures took this opportunity to pause and reflect on the role that art can play in shaping vital public discourse about the stakes and nature of justice. In conversation with Palestinian-American writer and editor Lisa Suhair Majaj and South African composer, sound artist, librettist…
If it’s in the way, it is the way. – Frank Anderson, IFS trainer A lot of theatre training practices around the world, especially embodied practice spaces, emphasise on the mind-body split polarity. They ask one to “get out of the head”, “stop thinking” and “get into your body”. Given the kind of systems one…
After a rejuvenating conversation with Ieva Česnulaitytė last month around active citizenship and participatory democracy, we at Unrehearsed Futures returned to Brazilian practitioner Augusto Boal and his body of work with the Theatre of the Oppressed, to investigate how we could revisit his powerful ideas today. A theatre-maker and political activist, Boal elaborated on his…