November 2012 ‘Where do you come from?’ – I am rolling this question around in my mind, trying to remember where I come from. From Kolkata? From India? From Bangladesh? From homelessness? From an undefined state of nostalgia? As Lois Weaver introduced several questions for us to think about when we all sat around a circle, I realized we were going somewhere from ‘here’ – the present moment. Within the next few days, about fifteen of us were grouping and regrouping together, playing games, brainstorming ideas, creating rituals and performance…
Getting On, a Backstage Tour
Location: San Francisco Senior CenterDate / Time: September 14-17, 2012, 10:30pm-12:30pm This Open Theatre Workshop is run by internationally acclaimed Artists and Theatre Professors Lois Weaver (Queen Mary University of London), Helen Paris and Leslie Hill (Stanford University). ‘Getting On, a backstage tour’ is a two-part theatre workshop in which we play with notions of ‘age fright’ through metaphor of ‘stage fright’. We will work on creative responses to ageing and encouraging participants to embody, then narrate an experience of ‘backstage’ where we might find each other as we stand…