Co-production RNTS (London, United-Kingdom), Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre (Vilnius, Lithuania), British Council (United-Kingdom), Theorem (association supported by the culture 2000 programme of the European Union).
British actors participated in an exploratory workshop from 2 - 12 May 2002 in Vilnius (Lithuania) around the creation of King Œdipus by Oskaras Korsunovas, in an exchange organised by the Royal National Theatre Studio (RNTS) of London.
The Lithuanian director Oskaras Korsunovas was invited in June 2001 by the National Theatre Studio to develop exploratory work on King Œdipus in a two weeks residency in London, with British actors. Continuing this collaboration, the director received British actors in his theatre in Vilnius for the creation of the show in May 2002. The actors attended rehearsals with the entire Lithuanian company during a two-week period, and performed on the opening nights of the show as members of the Choir.
This second phase of exchange received support from Theorem.
Workshop of Anatoli Baskakov. Passages Festival. Nancy (France), May 2002
Co-production Théatre de la Manufacture/Centre Dramatique National Nancy Lorraine (Nancy, France), French Embassy in Moscow (Russia), DRAC Lorraine (France), Theorem (association supported by the culture 2000 programme of the European Union).
Training and workshops for French actors with the Russian director Anatoli Baskakov, organised by the Théâtre de la Manufacture as part of the Passages Festival on 9 April - 12 May 2002.
Anatoli Baskakov was born in 1950. Founder, director and manager of the Molodiojni Theatre, he studied in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Theatre (former GITIS) with Maria Knebel, the last assistant to Stanislavski.
After his doctorate, he was professor at the Academy of Culture of Ulan-Ude for a long time, and then directed several theatre companies before he founded the Molodiojni Studio Theatre in May 1980, which was at the origin of the movement of independent theatre studios in Russia.
Anatoli Baskakov was invited to the Passages Festival in 1998, and returned to Nancy in 2002. As well as participating in Passages, as part of the presentation of Ilya Khabakov's work The Ship, Anatoli Baskakov led several training workshops, drawing on his knowledge of the Stanislavski model. These workshops were for both professional actors and students. The objective was to initiate a training process and to think about Eastern European theatres prior to the Passages Festival, as well as developing crossovers and collaborations between theatre professionals and universities in the Lorraine region.
Participants: 15 professional actors and theatre students from Universities in the Lorraine region
Training programme:
- 9-20 April 2002 : Research training workshop entitled « Chekhov and the Stanislavski method » (60 hours of training for approx 15 professional actors).
- week of 22 April 2002 : In Nancy, Anatoli Baskakov led a workshop for members of the University Theatre of Nancy, bringing together theatre-loving students of all Universities and High Schools in Nancy. The workshop was preceded by an introductory lecture, focusing on the influence of the Stanislavski method on contemporary Russian theatre. It was part of the Theatre Studies but was open to all interested students.
In Metz, as part of the Studies "Arts and Performances – Theatre", two days of theory and practice were organised in tandem with the Franco-German training programme, to compare the French, German and Russian theatre teaching systems.
- the end of April and the beginning of May were devoted to the preparation of workshops were held during Passages at the Museum of Fine-Arts in Nancy, which exhibited Ilyia Khabakov's installation, The Ship. Anatoli Baskakov was joined by actress Liuba Riabkova from his Ulan Ude theatre group, together with the French artists associated with the Théâtre de la Manufacture, François Clavier and Yedwart Ingey.
“Close Encounters” Residency of Alexandar Popovski in London (March April 2003)
The Exploratory Workshop is one of the key-activities of the Royal National Theatre Studio (London). Directors are invited to come and research projects in their very earliest stages. While these Exploratory Workshops are not systematically linked to a forthcoming production, most end up informing work subsequently seen on stage.
Following the success of Oskaras Korsunovas' two-week workshop on Oedipus Rex in London, June 2001, and another two weeks' work in rehearsals with Oskaras and his company in Vilnius (a project supported by Theorem), the Studio plans to invite more foreign directors for Exploratory Workshops as:
- A way to support the development of exciting foreign projects at their very beginning,
- An opportunity for British actors to be confronted with different styles and perspectives,
- A way to discover and ‘test’ the work of foreign directors,
Theorem supported this activity in co-producing the Exploratory Workshops of Aleksandar Popovski (Macedonia), leader of the young generation of directors in Macedonia. He also works regularly in Serbia, Slovenia and Italy.
Dates : 20 March - 5 April 2003
Place: Royal National Theatre Studio, London (United Kingdom)
Objective : preparatory work on MacBeth by Shakespeare, first confrontation of the director to this author, in the original language with professional British actors.
Participants : 6 professional British actors.
Professional training “Contemporary Russian Theatre: Oleg Chichkine” with Oleg Chichkine and François Clavier. Festival Passages. Nancy (France), May 2003
Coproduction:Théatre de la Manufacture/Centre Dramatique National Nancy Lorraine (Nancy, France), French Embassy in Moscow (Russia), DRAC Lorraine (France), Theorem (association supported by the culture 2000 programme of the European Union) and AFDAS
In the frame of its Passages Festival 2003, the Manufacture organised on 2 - 17 May 2003 a professional training session with the young Russian author Oleg Chichkine and the French actor associated to the Manufacture François Clavier, for an experimentation work on young contemporary drama playwrighting in Russia.
At the end of the Festival Passages was presented an esquisse of the play by Oleg Chichkine Suffering of young disco dancers or the mystery of Fabergé family and public readings of some other of his plays.
Participants : 15 professional actors of the Lorraine region and some other regions
