| The Method of Theodoros Terzopoulos |
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Work demonstration by Savvas Stroumpos of Attis Theatre Fri 24 April 2015, 16:30 Laboratory Theatre Space Admission free In English with consecutive Polish translation The process of rehearsal in Attis Theatre is not the performance of a dramatic concept; it is an adventure on a journey to the landscape of memory, a search for the lost keys of unity between body and speech, the word as a natural unity. Heiner Müller, Berlin, 1987 The work demonstration is an introduction to the renowned and influential method of Theodoros Terzopoulos, which is being taught in international drama academies, drama schools and universities, and has inspired actors all over the world. Terzopoulos’ method focuses on the emancipation of the trapped energy and voice, and aims to reconstitute the lost unity between the word and the body. The main “axons” of the method that will be introduced:
 Savvas Stroumpos was born in 1979 in Athens (Greece). In 2002 he graduated from the drama school of the National Theatre of Greece. In 2003 he received an MA in Theatre Practice from the University of Exeter, UK. From 2006 he worked as an assistant to director Theodoros Terzopoulos. With Attis Theatre he performed in Hamlet: A Lesson by Boris Pasternak, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett, Ajax the Madness by Sophocles (1st and 2nd version), The Last Mask by Costas Logaras and Cassandra by Marios Pontikas. With Zero Point Theatre Group he has directed In the Penal Colony and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; As You like It by William Shakespeare; Document, an adaptation of texts by Samuel Beckett, Primo Levi and Subcomandante Marcos; and Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. His productions are presented on the New Stage of Attis Theatre. As part of BodyConstitution, practical seminar |