Mar 13 2024 to Mar 14 2024 9 a.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Director Tim Supple leads a two-day workshop looking at mythology as content for contemporary theatre. Suitable for practitioners of all forms of theatre, the workshop will look at how stories and characters from myth become vivid and vital in contemporary performance. The first day will focus on a short excerpt of Indian mythology, chosen by each participant to be worked on with the director. The second day will focus on a short excerpt of Greek dramatic text, chosen by the director to be worked on with the group. An opportunity to sharpen the performer’s work under the gaze of an international theatre director with four decades of experience across the globe, Living Myth will be challenging, illuminating, and fun. The workshop is open to a limited number of participants who will be selected through an application process. Please fill in the application here. While the workshop will be facilitated primarily in English, participants with a limited understanding of English will be welcome.

Tim Supple Director

Former Artistic Director of London’s Young Vic Theatre, Tim Supple has directed, researched and taught theatre across the world in a wide range of languages – including in Europe, India, North Africa and the near East, Iran, Turkey, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Russia and the post-Soviet States, and North and South America. In the UK he has worked regularly at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in London’s West End. As founding Artistic Director of Dash Arts, he created the celebrated multi-lingual Indian production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (world tour) and the six-hour adaptation of The One Thousand and One Nights, with artists from the Arabic-speaking world (Edinburgh International Festival). Supple’s recent productions include The Tempest in Mandarin at Beijing’s National Centre for Performing Arts and he continues to push creative boundaries and bring new global perspectives to classic and contemporary theatre. Current projects in development include the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Conference of the Birds, and The Trilogy of Blood – a three-play cycle of Greek tragedy with artists from Southern India.