Direction: Inka Charlotte Palm, Minna Partanen
Direction assistance: Annie Womack Costume design: Cécile Marcand Set design: Stephanie Illouz, Cécile Marcand, Ursula Marshall With special thanks to Set Designer Isolde Light design: Katri Kuusimäki Sound design: Dominik Tresowski Video: Hazal Kara |
From and with: Alejandron Niklison, Anna Fuchs, Louise Hughes, Anshuman Dwivedi, Naomi Conrad, Christopher Yianni, Thomas McMullin, Jennifer Kennedy, Cecile Marcand, Julia Keller, Phoebe Dunn. |
International People’s Theatre is a theatre group that forms itself every fall anew since the last five years. Berlin based people from all over the world are coming together with facilitators and directors Inka-Charlotte Palm and Minna Partanen to create a devised theatre performance and perform it for a Berlin audience.
The gathering of ideas is organized by the directors who structure the lessons and design a concept according to the plan. The directors take responsibility for the whole framework of the actual performance. IPTB is an ensemble that aims at creating original theatre pieces based on co-created material. Working methods rely mainly on combining theatre, improvisation, applied theatre and creative writing. |
The main point stays in enhancing the existing skills in the group. The approach is often autobiographical in the sense that it derives from participants’ own experiences. The topics for performances are decided as a group process through exploring themes from all kinds of creative angles.
Devising process benefits from a playful approach, allowing time to experiment with ideas first, rather than being in a hurry to fix scenes and storylines. The participants are encouraged to move away from pure naturalism and to think about creating strong visual images through physical theatre. That is through those technical skills and orientations that I realised my very first solo project. As beeing a member of the cast, I had a excellent inner view of the project, and was able to start the visual conception quite early. |