Resilience and Artistic Freedom
Tuesday 20 October
5.00pm – 7.00pm (GMT)
Join us for the second session of the Resilience and Artistic Freedom series with Chilean director María José Andrade who will be exploring and provoking the minds of two multi-awarded and multifaceted theatre artists: Zoukak Theatre Company’s co-founder, writer, director and performer Maya Zbib, and writer, director and performer Tim Crouch.
The Resilience and Artistic Freedom series is a space for encounter, imagination and dialogue between theatre artists from different nationalities, cultures and professional backgrounds. The series aims to act like a snowball that produces, accumulates and connects questions, thoughts and experiences that emerge from the conversation between the speakers, the host and the participants over the different sessions.
Live provocations and manifestos specially made for the occasion by Tim Crouch and Maya Zbib will be shared during the session. Participants will be welcome to interact and join the conversation with comments and questions during the second half of the session.
Directors, writers, designers, producers, actors and any member of the industry who resonates with the topics of conversation are welcome to join in.
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.
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María José Andrade is a Chilean theatre director and creative producer based in London. She is the artistic director of The Last Company Theatre. Her most recent work pre Covid-19 was as 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 at New Rives Studios (2018) and 1001 KM at the Saatchi Gallery (2016).
Maya Zbib is a theatre director, performer, writer and co-founder of Zoukak Theatre Company. She is based in Beirut, Lebanon. Her work has been shown in the Middle East, Europe, the US, north and east-central Africa, South America and South Asia. She has taught theatre internationally in academic and non-academic contexts. She’s been commissioned to create work for NYU-AD’s Performing Arts Centre, the University of Houston, Williams College, Krefeld/Monchengladbach City Theaters, Shwindlefrie Festival, LIFT Festival and The Royal Court Theatre, among others.
Zoukak Theatre Company received the Ibsen Scholarship award (2012), the Anna Lindh Foundation’s Euromed Dialogue Award for social resilience and creativity (2014), the Preamium Imperiale Grant for Young Artists from the Japan Arts Association (2017) and the Chirac Foundation Award of Culture for Peace (2017).
Tim Crouch is an Obie award-winning playwright, director and theatre-maker. He was an actor before starting to write and he still performs in much of his work. Plays include his illustrated text for the National Theatre of Scotland, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Court and tour), I, Cinna (the poet) (Royal Shakespeare Company and Unicorn Theatre, London), Beginners (Unicorn Theatre, London), Adler & Gibb (Royal Court and tour), The Author (Royal Court and tour), An Oak Tree (Traverse Theatre, National Theatre, Off-Broadway and tour), I, Malvolio (Brighton Festival and tour), ENGLAND – a play for galleries (Traverse Theatre/The Fruitmarket Gallery and tour) Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre schools tour) and My Arm (Traverse Theatre and tour).
As a director: Peat (Ark, Dublin), Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore (Unicorn Theatre, London), The Complete Deaths (Spymonkey/Brighton Festival), The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Company).
Tim created and co-wrote Don’t Forget the Driver, a six-part series for BBC2, which won Best TV Comedy at the Venice TV awards, 2019.