Documentary Theatre and Digitality - Workshop by Fringe Ensemble

DOCUMENTARY THEATRE AND DIGITALITY

A workshop by Fringe Ensemble

Presented at the Next Act Festival 2024 at LTG Delhi.

German theatre practitioners Frank Huel (director) and Annika Ley (set designer and video artist) of the Bonn-based collective fringe ensemble invite participants to explore performance-making based on documentary materials (for eg. interviews, newspaper reports, books, interviews) and digital elements. 

Using the example of their location-based hybrid theatre performance 'Citizen Map', they will invite participants to learn interview techniques, create narratives from real stories, and explore the interplay of digital technologies and live actors.

🗓️ Thursday 26 September

⏱️ 6pm to 9pm (3 hours)

🎟️ INR 999/- per participant. Register at bit.ly/documentary26 (or visit Kaivalya Plays website)

📍 Blank Canvas, Little Theatre Group (LTG) Auditorium

🗣️ Open to all kinds of storytellers, performance-makers, directors, designers, actors and others. No prior experience required.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 

Frank Heuel is the artistic director of the fringe ensemble (since 1999) and a freelance director. He has staged theatre festivals such as Theaterzwang  (2002) and friends (2004), directed at the Theater Bonn (2008 to 2010) and was part of the artistic direction of the Schaubühne Lindenfels in Leipzig (2012 to 2014). He has received several awards for his productions and has been invited to festivals. Frank has been working in international collaborations for many years, in recent years mainly in Turkey and West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana).  Under the label fringe writers, Frank realizes new collaborative scenarios with authors from Germany, Europe and West Africa, in which often several authors are involved and a multi-perspective view of a topic or story becomes visible.

Annika Ley is a stage designer and video artist, and a core team member of Bonn-based fringe ensemble. She studied stage and costume design at the  Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht. Afterwards, she was employed as a set assistant at the  Theater Bonn and set her own productions. Since 2009 she has been designing stage and costume designs for productions of the fringe ensemble and works closely with Frank Heuel in the development and design of the projects. In 2015, Annika Ley participated as a scholarship holder in the Summer Academy of the  Watermill Foundation New York/Robert Wilson Masterclass. In 2021, she was a speaker at  re:public for the presentation of the "City Stories" project, which was created together with the Stadtmuseum Bonn. She gives workshops and lectures on the use of digital technologies, including in December 2023 as part of the Erasmus+ program at the Teatro Stabile del Veneto.

fringe ensemble, founded by Frank Heuel in 1999, is a dynamic theatre group based in Bonn. With over 100 productions worldwide, they operate from the Theater im Ballsaal in Bonn, expanding to Bonn Bad-Godesberg since 2017. Led by director Heuel and supported by a core team including Annika Ley, Svenja Pauka, Claudia Grönemeyer, and Lutz Ackermann, they curate diverse projects and foster international collaborations. Their multidisciplinary approach integrates acting, music, video, and visual arts. Fringe Ensemble pioneers digital theatre experiences, such as "Map to Utopia," blending digital media with live performance, earning acclaim including the "Human Human Machine Award." Their international presence extends to festivals in Berlin, Cologne, and Istanbul as well as artistic partnerships in Poland, Latvia, Turkey and West Africa. Municipal and national sponsors, including City of Bonn, Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Fonds Doppelpass), Beethoven Jubiläumsgesellschaft BTHVN 2020, Fonds Soziokultur, Fonds Darstellende Künste, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, have supported them in the past.

More information: www.fringe-ensemble.de or follow @fringe_ensemble on social media