Writing workshop

Writing along with the shows...

- How do you come up with your writing workshops?
- It's quite simple. You take a rucksack and go hiking through the programme. You pick out titles and directing intentions. You pick up artistic statements, press reviews and dramaturgies. We shake it all up, turn it upside down on the theatre's big stage, and look for what it's telling us.

saturday 23 november
"Life backstage
He was a caretaker, technical manager and handyman at the Théâtre d'Auxerre from 1954 to 1989. His diary was published by Éditions Rhubarbe. We'll be writing about our caretakers ...

Saturday 7 December
Les forêts le soir font du bruit en mangeant" ("The forests in the evening make noise when they eat")
Based on "L'Appel de la forêt" (The Call of the Forest)

Saturday 11th January
"Le langage qui danse, le corps qui parle" (Language that dances, the body that speaks)
Based on "Le Paradoxe de l'endive", "On ne parle pas avec les moufles", "Bataille Générale", "Manège".

Saturday 15 February
"On s'est trompé d'histoire d'Amour" (The wrong love story)
Based on "L'Agrume

Each of these workshops will have its own particular structure, but they will all be based on the theories of the GFEN (Groupement Français d'Éducation Nouvelle), whose fundamental precepts are "Everyone is capable" and "When you learn with others, you learn on your own".

Everyone is capable because the series of constraints that structure the workshop are guides that never leave anyone alone and helpless in front of their blank page. Because "Writing" is not an inspiration that comes from nowhere, but is nourished, like any creative act, by chance associations, randomness and rationality that the writing constraints bring to the surface. This writing is invented within the group, this "many" that becomes a resource for the "one".