Urban Theatre Projects (UTP), originally founded as Death Defying Theatre (way back in the ‘80’s) is a professional theatre company based in Bankstown (Sydney, NSW). Their tag line is ‘Stories of Contemporary Life‘ and they make new theatre works that reflect such stories and images of contemporary Australian life, with a focus on people...
This week, at the invitation of Doris Difarnecio, Director of the Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA in San Cristobal, I visited FOMMA and was introduced to a truly fascinating organization and set of projects. In a previous post I mentioned the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, which is based at NYU and has partnered with FOMMA...
If you are interested in the intersection of arts and politics, arts activism and theatre, or even just interesting grassroots and community movements in the Americas, check out the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. In 2008 this institute opened a centre in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chipas, in collaboration with Fortaleza de...
Sophie Haviland is my sister and she has a great new website, www.sophiehaviland.com! Such a plug might be seen as shameless nepotism, but this site is a window into a whole world of collaborative art projects which most people will not know about, and is well worth a visit for anyone interested in international collaborative...
Jenny Savigny has been doing a number of interesting projects in Canberra (Australia’s capital city) for a number of years, using creative methods such as theatre and writing to work with issues to do with mental health. In the past she’s developed and toured performances in schools about experiences of eating disorders, and recently...
Radio National (Artworks program) today had a story about an interesting form of theatre called Verbatim Headphone Theatre. The Artworks webpage about the story says: “Stories of Love and Hate uses a technique called Headphone Verbatim Theatre, which was begun by the London based Non-Fiction Theatre in 2000 and is pioneered in Australia by the...