In this workshop, we will explore playful ways of devising performance material with an eco-curious focus. Using games, exercises and discussion foraged from Ali’s woodland walks, her conversations with inner-city mushroom farmers and off-grid back-to-the-landers, and her deep curiosity about the natural world. This workshop will introduce emerging artists to new theatre-making approaches. We’ll do some physical theatre games & somatic exercises, some drawing, some writing and some compositional improvisation. It will be playful, approachable, and a bit ridiculous – in a good way.
You are asked to bring in something (an object, a piece of text, a photo, a piece of movement) that connects you to a particular British ecosystem such as your local park, an everyday river walk, a favourite woodland or wetland, a treasured place by the sea or in the mountains. Above all, your something should remind and connect you to this landscape and natural environment.
Nature is hilarious, terrifying, beautiful, and weird – so let’s roll up our sleeves and work with it as material!
