Louder than words: making and performing theatre cross-culturally with young people. The Cædmon Project 2003

This article is an account of the Cædmon Project, a youth theatre initiative undertaken in Bulgaria during the summer of 2003. The project involved taking a dozen young people from the south west of England, to work with the same number of Bulgarians. After just a week of intensive devising workshop...

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Published in:Studies in theatre and performance 2005-08, Vol.25 (2), p.145-151
Main Author: Wallis, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British theater
Bulgaria
Bulgarian theater
Cross cultural interaction
cross-cultural
Drama texts, plays
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Plays & playwrights
Plymouth
Projects
Rehearsals
Roma
Students
Theatre, drama
Varna
Workshops
Youth
youth theatre
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Summary:This article is an account of the Cædmon Project, a youth theatre initiative undertaken in Bulgaria during the summer of 2003. The project involved taking a dozen young people from the south west of England, to work with the same number of Bulgarians. After just a week of intensive devising workshops and rehearsals, the group performed in public spaces in and around the Black Sea town of Varna over a period of six days. The article charts the development of the project from inception to performance, and concludes with six observations about the nature of the theatrical process that makes it a particularly powerful tool for addressing issues of cultural diversity.
ISSN:1468-2761
2040-0616
DOI:10.1386/stap.25.2.145/3