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Organised by the Cifas / As part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts / With the support of La Bellone

Each year, CIFAS invites a festival artist to share their working practice. This year, it is Amir Reza Koohestani who will conduct a workshop about theater and about what is not being said.

In contemporary theater, the message we want to deliver is not necessarily the message said. 

As an artist living under the censorship condition, I have understood the fact that the “things” that are censored are the ones that are actually said or shown. But how on earth could you challenge the society while every challengeable matter is censored on a certain level? How a work that has to pass censor could deal with the questions that are censored? The point is that censor is just accomplished on the “things” and imagination is something that can’t ever be censored. 

In the upcoming workshop “What we leave unsaid” we are aiming to talk about the imaginational stage that occurs in audience’s mind. How can we build this stage, and moreover how can we absolutely (or almost) be sure that the audience will cooperate with us? To enter audience’s imagination we need to know them well and knowing them requires an understanding of the place and time they are living in.

In this workshop, the participants and I will share our own experiences from the time and place we are living in, and communicate without the need of everything being said or shown.

Target group: actors, performers, theatre makers, writers, …
Registration applications (CV & Motivation letter) must be submitted before the  27th of April to: cifas@cifas.be
Registration: 150 euros (lunch included)

Amir Reza Koohestani was born in 1978 in Shiraz, Iran. After a brief experience as a performer, he devoted his time to writing his first plays. With his third play, Dance On Glasses (2001), which toured for four years, Amir Reza Koohestani gained international fame and was supported by several European theatrical artistic directors and festivals. In October 2011, despite finishing his military service, Amir Reza Koohestani created the adaptation of Ivanov by Anton Chekhov, successfully staged in Tehran for several weeks. In 2013, Festival Actoral in Marseille (France) commissioned Koohestani to write and stage a new play, Timeloss. Amir Reza Koohestani is the first director to win two consecutive Best theatre production of the year awards in Iran for Ivanov in 2011 and The Fourth Wall in 2012.

http://www.mehrtheatregroup.com/

teaser: https://vimeo.com/156813974