Immersive theatre workshops

Building a New Theatre Language for Professional Artists

Rooftop Theatre* organizes an Immersive Theatre workshop/training, taking place in Nicosia in November and December of 2024. For 4 days, Cyprus-based and international trainers will work with a team of interdisciplinary artists, in an action funded by the Deputy Ministry of Culture. The series of training will offer the opportunity to work together as an interdisciplinary collective, to create local capacity in Immersive theatre in Cyprus. The workshop will explore, theoretically and practically, the genre of immersive theatre. Within the framework of this series of workshops, theatrical texts, archival material and personal stories of the participants will create new stories to be explored in the context of ιmmersive practices, in a space, in the old city of Nicosia.

Through theatrical exercises and practices from international and local groups, the aim of the workshop is an exploration based on the concepts of space, storytelling, the relationship between the story and the audience, and how all these can create a fully integrated performance space.

The project will take place on the following dates:

- 16th and 17th of November, facilitation Bertie Watkins, Colab Theatre, UK

- 23rd of November, facilitation Ellada Evangelou and Maria Varnakkidou, Rooftop Theatre

- 7th of December, facilitation Doros Polydorou (CUT) and George Rodosthenous (Leeds Univ.)

Eligible Artists: theatre artists, designers (set, costume, props, lights, multimedia), performers (dance, performance art, etc), digital media artists, multimedia artists, fine artists.