Odin Teatret: Ten encounters on a battle cry

FIRST MEETING

Speaker: Eugenio Barba

Wednesday, 6 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to Spanish

MARRIED TO A MASK
Change and continuity in a theatre group

The factors that decide the duration of a theatre-institution and that of a theatre group. Description of the ‘earthquakes’ consciously provoked to disrupt Odin Teatret’s internal structure. The director’s antidote to fight entropy, shaking habits and determining unexpected transformations that revitalise the group’s dynamics.

SECOND MEETING
Speaker: Julia Varley

Thursday, 7 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

POETRY AS A WEAPON: WOMEN’S VOICES
Network as a group theatre tradition

The Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre that has been active since 1986, was born from the culture of Third Theatre. It does not have a theatre group’s everyday meeting regularity but nevertheless builds a living tradition that is transmitted through different generations. The years of shared experience generate a sense of belonging and the recognition of a common history made of diversity, individuality, curiosity, stubbornness, sense of justice and hope. From the meetings in a round, a vulnerable voice resonates in search of completeness - poetry and beauty.

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to Spanish

THIRD MEETING
Speaker: Franco Ruffini

Monday, 11 May 202018.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to English and Spanish (tbc)

THEATRE AS A NEEDY ART

Theatre as a needy art means that it is structurally in need of help, of someone or something that provides the resources, not to become rich, but simply to exist. In all phases of its history, theatre has been animated by two opposing and complementary forces. On one side, the need not to alienate the power – the person or the body that provide the resources to exist - and on the other side, the need to nurture a space of freedom and independence from that power. Professional theatre versus Third Theatre.

FOURTH MEETING

Speaker: Eugenio Barba

Wednesday, 13 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to English and Spanish (tbc)

NOT IN THE COURSE OF TIME BUT WITH TIME, GOD CREATED THE SKY AND THE EARTH
Time and space in the gestation of a performance

Introduction of a few minutes from the documentary The unstable space of theatre. Difference of perception between A) the Italian stage in which the spectator dominates the space of the action and reacts to the director’s montage and B) the “river-space” in which the spectator cannot dominate the whole space and must choose where to look, thus creating a personal montage. Technical work on the two dimensions of time: continuity and simultaneity. In theatre, the spectator experiences time as a succession of changes that the actor’s technique makes perceptible.

FIFTH MEETING
Speaker: Julia Varley

Thursday, 14 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to English and Spanish (tbc)

THE ECHO OF SILENCE
An actress’s censorship and self-censorship

Personal discourse is often not accepted as academically valid. The questions are not considered as the results of a process, while the discussions detonate to support opposing opinions. An actress trusts her feet’s intelligence, narrates in first person without becoming private, and composes with patience until others will understand the value of experience’s complexity. In the process of learning to speak and write, accepting the responsibility of working and trying, failing and trying again, difficulties, problems and details contain dramatic knots that do not give answers but generate energy. There are censorships that silence from outside and words that cannot be said aloud because they would be misinterpreted and used oppositely to their deep meaning. There is an imposed silence, a silence chosen while waiting for the right moment to let oneself be heard, and a silence that contains the possibility of all sounds.

SEVENTH MEETING
Speaker:  Eugenio Barba

Wednesday, 20 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to English and Spanish (tbc)

SEARCHING FOR MEANING AND BREAD 
Theatre as barter

Theatre groups have often defined themselves as laboratories, which is to say production systems not centred around the performance. Theatre practitioners are often asked the question: “What is the theatre’s role in our society?” They should be asked: “What’s the point of making theatre for you?”

We could answer that theatre can allow actors and spectators to get to know each other by exchanging their cultural expressions - songs, dances, poems, games, biographies and riddles. So, what do actors live from?

NINTH MEETING
Speaker: Nicola Savarese

Monday, 25 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00 CET
(local time Rome, Italy)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to English and Spanish (tbc)

I HAVE BEEN in A THEATRE GROUP
– I am THE Third Theatre Testimony

I would not be the scholar and author of twenty books that you know, if I had not led a theatre group for many years. The years of theatre practice have repeatedly wounded the ideas learned at the Academy. With the scars and in good company I wrote The Secret Art of the Performer and The Five Continents of Theatre. The confession of my adventure will prove it. 

TENTH MEETING
Speakers: Eugenio Barba & Julia Varley

Wednesday, 27 May 2020
18.00 - 19.00
(local time Rome)

Language: Italian with simultaneous translation to English and Spanish (tbc)