Mar 5th-10th - - - Kana Theatre

OKNO THEATRICAL MEETINGS. CLOSE-UPS.
Part II. Deconstruction of a narrative.

WORKSHOP FOR THEATRE PROFESSIONALS LED BY KREPSKO ENSEMBLE

WORKSHOP

Working methods of Krepsko Theatre focus on liberating creative potential, coming as the result of colliding seemingly antagonistic actors' tasks, which creates tension between meaning, action, situational and spacial context. Creative work of the ensemble draws from individual and collective improvisation, spontaneity of reactions, rules of building up a punchline and using the unexpectedness as an artistic mean. The workshop is thought as a meeting of theatre practicians focused on a creative process.

KREPSKO THEATRE

Krepsko was established in spring 2001 by a Finnish puppetry student Linnea Happonen and an actor and director Petr Lorenc (1975-2006) as an improvisation ensemble focusing on dance, acting, mime, song and musical improvisation. They are perhaps best known for these weird and wonderful improvisations at various festivals over the last years, though they also perform set pieces. Krepsko is situation theatre - breaking down the pictures that arise on stage and splitting the inspiration of the individual actors into mutually irrational reactions resulting in absurd situations. The Krepsko ensemble creates situations, but beyond this, they look for ways of how to distort them. Decomposition or destruction of the dramatic situation thus opens a wide field for new impulses and reassesses the form of a play as such.

Besides message and narration, the Krepsko ensemble wishes to allow its audience a wider space for understanding and interpreting, as well to give them pleasure through viewing. They do also try to find a form for these purposes that is cheerful and interesting. The world of Krepsko is painfully human, full of eccentric characters, absurd, black humour and poetic playfulness. Almost all their performances work without verbal language.

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