The Fluid Theatre
credit points 1.5
Semester: B
Ariel Sereni Brown
Ariel Sereni Brown explores the connection between grand stage traditions and marginal cultures. His works examine how cultural, geographic, and political environments spill into the imagined space of the theater stage, navigating between the fantastic and the concrete, the familiar and the strange. From an abandoned bank vault to a miniature puppet theater and a nomadic tent, Brown invents and discovers new forms in which theater can be born and die. His works have been praised and presented in Greenland, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, and Israel.
The Water Boy and the Waters
Creator and performer – HaZira Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel
Future X: Globalization
Lead creator (in collaboration with Yonatan Omer Mizrahi) – Sydhavn Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kaunas Wi-Fi
Director – Kaunas National Theatre, Kaunas, Lithuania
Zula 2000
Director and performer (in collaboration with Maya Landsman) – Akko Fringe Festival. Won the directing prize at the festival for the show "Zula 2000"
Afs Uomo Maniac
Director and performer – The Home Theater. Selected in 2018 to present as part of “International Exposure” / IsraDrama. Presented at theater festivals in Serbia and Lithuania
Not Bringing It Home
Performer – a show by Jason Danino Holt. Selected in 2017 to present as part of “International Exposure” / IsraDrama
Shelter 02
Performer – a show by Ilail Lev-Knaan, Akko Fringe Festival. Won best supporting actor award for the show "Shelter 02"
A theatre curtain rises, revealing a living, natural, and lush forest. Stagehands search for listening devices secretly embedded in the walls of the opera house. Masked actors synchronize their lips to pre-recorded voices, claiming that acting is an embarrassingly artistic expression. Meanwhile, an audience protests outside fenced shipping containers. Inside them unfolds a scandalous reality-performance, starring undocumented migrants.
In this course, we will explore theatrical models that used every means available to draw the audience’s gaze into the stage space, and move toward performances whose beginnings and endings occur far beyond the viewer’s field of vision. Together, we will study and experiment with the many ways in which theatrical practice can expand into the political, social, and geographical spaces surrounding it, and vice versa.
