Five-Day Brecht Workshop with David Barnett

Over five days, David Barnett offers participants, be they actors, director, dramaturges or other theatre-makers, both an introduction to and a comprehensive experience of Brechtian approaches to making theatre.

On the first days, participants work their way through Brecht’s ideas for a politicized theatre not by speculating on his theories, but by enacting and reflecting on them. Partly through exercises, but mostly through work on scenes and extracts taken from well-known plays, participants engage with a different way of rehearsing dramatic material that actively seeks to expose the power relations inherent in every human interaction.