(openPR) Over two years five theater groups from Austria, France, Germany, Sweden and Slovenia have been working together artistically and administratively. They asked a question everyone at some point of life asks: “Should I stay or should I go?”, and looked out for many different answers from people all over Europe. The results they not only transformed into improvised theater performances but also into a feature film they produced. And on top of it the book “Collective improvisation: From theater to Film and beyond.” was written by Sonja Vilc about the experiences they made during these two years.
The feature film “Should I stay or should I go” contributes to the European dialogue and impressively demonstrates that improvisational theater is not as unreproducible, but can be kept on certain media for future needs.
In five episodes the film deals with the examples the theater groups picked to show how the question of staying or leaving can occur in different ways: In Austria it follows people who move (or don't) to a different country for love, Germany addresses the issue of the transition of gender, Slovenia concentrates on the effects and reasons of the "brain drain", France's central theme is the work place between self-fulfillment and self-abandonment and in Sweden, the focus lies on family ties and cohesion in rural areas.
Afterwards the book “Collective improvisation: From theater to Film and beyond” based on that particular theatrical experience will be launched. Meet the author Sonja Vilc for a talk and discussion about the past, the present and the future of improvisation in theater and film.
What do Viola Spolin, Keith Johnstone and Del Close have in common? (and who are these peole?) How can you do an improvisational filn and why would one do such a thing? What does improvisational theater have to do with politics? Do you think these questions hqve nothing in common?
Sonja Vilc, a member of the Slovenian Kolektiv Narobov and a teacher at the Gorrillas School of Improvisation will be there to prove the opposite!
Sonja participated as an actor in the “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” project and during the 2-year-period dilligently wrote down all the knowledge that was created through this improvisational film and theater experiment. The result : a book with the title “Collective improvisation: From theater to Film and beyond.” is a fascinating view on what improvisation was in its beginnings, what it is today and what it could be in the future.
Date:
Dec 13th, 2015
6 p.m.
(book launch starts at 8 p.m.)
Venue:
Ratibor Theater
Cuvrystraße 20A
10997 Berlin
Tickets:
movie+book: 6 Euro
book only: free
Reservation:
www.stay-or-go.eu
T. 030-83037504
