Resilience and Artistic Freedom
Thursday 10 December
7.00pm – 9.00pm
Join us for the third and last session of the Resilience and Artistic Freedom Series in 2020, with Chilean director María José Andrade who will welcome two exceptional artists in conversation: Performance-maker, writer and curator Ira Brand, and director and playwright Pablo Manzi.
The Resilience and Artistic Freedom Series is a space for encounter, imagination and dialogue between theatre makers from different nationalities, cultures and professional backgrounds. It invites established and emerging theatre and performance artists from the UK, Europe and Latin America, to respond to Maria José's provocations with live manifestos and provocations of their own.
Directors, writers, designers, producers, actors and any member of the industry who resonates with the topics of conversation are welcome to join as an active audience. The series aims to act like a snowball that accumulates and connects questions, thoughts and personal experiences over the different live sessions.
Please let us know you plan to attend by clicking the sign-up button above. Zoom details will then be emailed to all sign-ups the day before.
Closed captions will be available for this session via Otter.AI and details on how to use this facility will be provided on the day.
We will ensure that access provision is in place for all participants. Please let us know if you have any access requirements using the space on the sign-up form so we can get appropriate provision in place.
Ira Brand is an artist, performance-maker, writer, and curator. She creates live interdisciplinary performances; her process is one of using personal starting points to speak to wider social, political, and formal concerns. Ira's work draws on text, video, auto/biography, interview processes, physical, and participatory practices. A current thematic preoccupation in her work is power and how it is felt and enacted – specifically through language, gender and desire.
Ira’s work has toured extensively in the UK and internationally, and she graduated from the DAS Theatre Masters Programme, Amsterdam, in 2019. She is also one of the Co-Directors of Forest Fringe, an award-winning artist-led collective with whom she has delivered projects as an artist and curator in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, New York, Auckland, Lisbon, Kanazawa, and Salvador da Bahia.
Pablo Manzi works in different areas of theater; directing, writing and performing. Most of his work as a playwright has been carried out within the Chilean theatre collective BONOBO, with whom he has written plays such as Donde Viven los Bárbaros and Tú Amarás. His texts have been staged in Japan, Italy, Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Sweden and Belgium. His new play, “A Fight Against…”, was set to premiere in May 2020, at the Royal Court Theater, under the direction of Sam Pritchard. The show has been rescheduled due to the pandemic.
María José Andrade is a Chilean theatre director, writer, and creative producer based in London. She is the artistic director of The Last Company Theatre, a Latinx-British performing arts collective. Her most recent work has been as an assistant director to Ellen McDougall in Faces in the Crowd, at the Gate Theatre, in January 2020. Previous works as Director include La Jana at The Roundhouse (2019), Last Rehearsal at The Warren, Brighton Fringe (2019) and at Theatre Deli (2019), Kif-Kif Live at New Rives Studios (2018) and 8.261 KM at the Saatchi Gallery (2016).