The Stage & The Street: Political Theatre Lab
A Monthly Session
We live in urgent times. Genocide, climate collapse, and the relentless erosion of rights—from environmental protections to bodily autonomy. In this atmosphere, what is the role of the storyteller, the actor, the artist?
This is not a traditional acting class. It is a monthly laboratory for artists who feel the pull to respond, to question, and to engage. We draw our lineage from the revolutionary theatrical minds of Bertolt Brecht (who demanded critical thought), Erwin Piscator (who pioneered documentary and political theatre), and Stella Adler (who rooted action in the social imagination and the circumstances of the world).
Each 3-hour session is a dynamic blend of improvisation, discussion, and material development. We will use play as a tool for excavation and expression. We won’t just talk about the world; we will physically, vocally, and collaboratively explore it through the lens of political sketches, satirical comedy, and socially engaged scene work.
What We Will Do:
- Improvise & Explore: Use games and exercises to physically embody complex ideas—power structures, climate anxiety, social resistance—finding the human (and often absurd) stories within them.
- Discuss & Analyse: Ground our work in context. We’ll look at current events, historical patterns, and the theories of our guiding practitioners. How does Brecht’s “alienation effect” help an audience think about a current crisis? How does Adler’s emphasis on “given circumstances” deepen a character fighting for their rights.
- Develop Material: Collaboratively create short scenes, monologues, and satirical sketches. Your personal concerns about right-wing nostalgia, the defense of human rights, or ecological grief become the raw material for potent, focused theatre.
- Embrace the Educational & the Playful: We learn by doing. The goal is not to deliver lectures, but to discover knowledge through embodied practice. The workshop is a space for curiosity, risk, and collective brainstorming.
This Class is For:
Actors, writers, activists, teachers, and curious individuals who believe that storytelling is an essential form of public dialogue. No prior acting experience is required, only a willingness to engage, collaborate, and think critically about the society we inhabit and wish to change.
Come ready to play, to question, and to build stories that matter. Let’s turn our anxiety into action, our observation into art, and our isolation into a collective, creative response.
Format: Monthly, 3-hour intensive workshop. Focus: Political Theatre, Satire, Social Justice, Devised & Improvisational Storytelling. Inspirations: Brecht, Piscator, Stella Adler, Dario Fo, Augusto Boal, and the urgency of now.
Ort: In-Person Berlin, Schott Acting Studio
Termin: March 2026! The precise date of the session will be announced shortly.
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Zeiten: 17:30 bis 20:30 Uhr
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