Theatre Project Objective Drama- POD Theatre is part of the International Network The Republic of the Imagination. From July to October there will be project "Conference of the Birds", made through 3 stages. It will be held in Portugal and Wales.
POD Theatre is partner in this project, and this is description of the stage 2 of the project:
The Republic of the
Imagination Production
The
Conference of the Birds is a theatre research project conducted by The Republic
of the Imagination (www.troti.org)
- an international network of theatre professionals working with Context
Oriented Theatre (COT). COT is a theatre that invites audiences to take
the risk of falling awake to the miracle of being alive.
The birds of the world came together in a great conference.
From the view from their eyes, up in the sky, down digging in the dirt,
among the trees and along the wires; they could see what is happening and it
was not good. And they asked, why? Why was it like this? And
What? What was to be done about it?
They twittered. And sent rousing car sticker slogans to
each other on Facebook. No! They didn’t do that. Because they
were birds!
But among them was a wise bird called the Whoopee who told them
of a bird who could help them. A king of birds called the Simorgh, who
could deliver them to the paradise, which in their deepest memory they could
remember.
So in a quest for the Simorgh they went. And the first
place they landed was a city called Porto, in a little theatre called La
Marmita.
You
can join them there on their quest. There are open sessions every
afternoon from 6th to 25th August which you can attend for a donation and
evening performances from the 12th to the 24th August.
Director, Iwan Brioc's last production in Porto - 'O Labirinto'
in 2003 at the Alfendagar, was a huge success and is still talked about ten
years later by those who succeeded to get a ticket.
'This time I want to see if theatre can be microscope with which
we can look into exactly what it is that is causing our species to self
destruct, a microscope and a looking glass through which audiences can step and
discover for themselves what drives us and what sets us free.'
