Writing theatre, writing about theatre
with Mona Merhi
What is the workshop about? |
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This workshop is a many-fold encounter where participants will be invited to think how theatre and performance in our region are being written. While many of us fall in the trap of considering that “writing theatre” ends with the end of the performance, theatre as an afterlife, is a continuous process where the latter writes and rewrites itself. This workshop, hence, focuses on what precedes and what remains of the theatre performance: Hence, the latter focus is an on-going negotiation between the act of documenting, critiquing, researching, historicizing, thinking, rethinking and unthinking Teatron as an act of seeing– all of which fall under one term: “writing”. If you are looking for a workshop because you have a certain interest in theatre and performance as a theoretical practice that is seminal and essential in complementing the stage practice, then we have a mutual interest.
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What is the approach |
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Lectures will be offered with PowerPoints followed by discussions. Materials in different languages will be available to be read at the appropriate time. The participants will be asked simultaneously to participate in sharing any knowledge scheme they have: Learning is not exclusively a vertical construct, it is based on a transversal, non-hierarchical, horizontal approach.
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what is the objective of the workshop |
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About Mona Merhi |
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Mona Merhi is a doctoral student and an instructor at the University of Washington. She is a writer, researcher, TV producer, theatre maker and a cultural manager. Being a theatre critic in many local and regional newspapers in the Arab world, Mona published articles about diversified performance landscapes. She was involved in research projects relating to cultural policies. To mention a few, she was commissioned by the Asfari institute for civil society and citizenship and by Ettijahat independent culture to conduct a research on Cultural Activism in Lebanon After the Arab Uprising and on Syrian Art Production: Support Models and Sustainability Challenges. Her current research interests are concerned with staging catastrophes in light of technology and contemporaneity (when the world is subsumed either to camps or to incarceration clusters). She has presented research at the UCLA Center for Performance Studies, Maryland University “Revels and Rebels” Virtual Symposium. Her upcoming research essays ought to be presented at the Association for Theatre and Higher Education (ATHE) and the American Society for Theatre and Research (ASTR).
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Location |
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This Workshop is going to be conducted Via Zoom but participants are asked to come to Studio Laban as the zoom meeting is set in there.
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Dates & Times |
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25 June 10:00 - 12:30
26 June 10:00 - 15:00 28 June 10:00 - 15:00 29 June 10:00 - 15:00 |
