What happens in staged silence? Is it really ever silent? What is the relationship between signal and noise in theatre generally? Is the randomness and inevitability of background noise not raw data from which all our designs are made? By pausing to ‘perform silence’ are we not tacitly honouring the uncontrolled noise of being?
In this workshop we will look at staged silence in general and play with the ritualized social performance of memorial 'minute (or two minutes) of silence' as a theatrical conceit. This will involve a) holding a memorial silence in a public location in Prague and b) using that experience as the basis for a short ‘silent’ piece of sound-led theatre using whatever means we find at our disposal. The apparent contradiction here is essential.
This workshop is for anyone with an interest in what sound does in theatre. Participants are asked to bring their own recording devices if they want to. Otherwise, just bring your ears and a willingness to devise and perform.
Numbers will be limited to 12 participants.
Workshop Leader: Ross Brown
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