Video "Sigh" by Maud Hendricks - Freedom exploration, documented by Bernie O'Reilly and edited by Michael Higgins
Call out FREEDOM
May 2025
Open Theatre Practice
Season IX Freedom
We have hit the streets and have invited people in Dublin 8 and beyond to join us in our practice of performance making in a Café on Cork Street and in zoom meetings online, collectively reading the Greek tragedy Antigone, a play about freedom of the individual versus the state.
In our workshops online and in person, we invite people who are interested in performance making to collectively research and explore the theme Freedom for their own appreciation and benefit.For the next stage of our development, we look forward to inviting five community participants to co-create a chorus performance.
Are you interested in being one of five invited
participants who will co-create a chorus performance
for Freedom? Do you have something urgent to
express on the subject of freedom? Would you like to
experiment with voice and co-creation?
Please send us your spoken or written response to:
"this state is (not) free for me" in less than 100 words
in a voice message (WhatsApp 0871220817) or in
writing in an email to info@outlandishtheatre.com. We
welcome and accept your submission in any language.
With an invited artist on our panel, our core team (Maud, Bernie, Fióna) will select five participants to work with us.
The schedule for participation in the making and performing of this new co-created piece will be:
July 14-18 Week: co-creating and experimenting
August 5-8: Part-time rehearsals
Sep - Nov Wednesday Evenings: part-time rehearsals
November: 3 days performance documentation
There is an honorarium for participation. Please get in touch if you would like further details on this in advance of your submission.
Please send us your submission with a clear indication of your availability for the schedule before 5 pm on Tuesday 3rd June with your contact details.
We will respond to all participants before Friday, the 13th of June.
Are you interested in performance making or joining a workshop?
Are you an organisation, school, health care setting, university, festival and interested in making new work together?
Are you interested in an Open Theatre Practice workshop in your organisation?
Are you an artist or arts organisation outside of Ireland and would you like to make new work together?
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