Reactions to Research on Trauma & Theatre for Young Audiences
Keep scrolling down for more about the papers at this session, which was presented at the conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN) that took place in Kristiansand...
An Encounter at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering
Artists - meet your peers from every corner of the world, and hear delegates discussing and sharing ideas about the overall theme of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering and how it relates to...
Facing Fears and Dancing in the Dark: About Shadows
Walking into the space for About Shadows, I bumped into musician Stefano Barone who informed me where the audience would be invited to sit. I...
A Performance of Stork’s Gift
Check out the video above for some performance highlights and audience reactions from the performance at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
Performance Synopsis: Anyone who awaits a stormy story...
Opening Up to Honest and Candid Art
The three seminars which I attended at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), unpacked interesting research on themes such as diversity, inclusion, intercultural exchange and gender. Not only...
Shaping Stories
Construire des Histoires (trans. Shaping Stories) playwriting laboratory workshop was held at the Cradle of Creativity from 23rd to 27th May 2017 and welcomed Francophone Theatre Practitioners from 9 different African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo,...
Panali Panali
Panali Panali, presented by Zambia-based Dinaledi Expressions, combines both storytelling and theatre.
“Panali panali” is a Nyanja phrase, roughly equivalent in English to “once upon a time” or “do I have your attention?” Indeed, the...
Chatting with Yannick Boudeau – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Yannick Boudeau has been the General Manager and Producer at Compagnie la Casquette, a Theatre for Young Audience in Brussels, since 2007. Co-founding ASSITEJ Belgium in 2014, he has been the Chairman...
Just Here: A Sweet Performance
Just Here is a performance created for children under the age of three. Gabriel Marchand, the Director from Pillow Fort Productions, created a colourful piece that was full of soothing, calm and familiar sounds for the young audience...
Norwegian Wood: How to Navigate the Norwegian TYA Forest
If the first part of that title made you bop your head to the tune of The Beatles song, you would be forgiven - for I fell for the same reference! And...