bangaloREsidency 2013

Kai Tuchmann
Director, Dramaturge, Theatre Scholar

3 months

Kai Tuchmann is a German director, dramaturge/producer and theatre scholar. He has directed at several influential German theatres, such as the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. Recently he was Head Dramaturge of the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg and a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. Since 2007, he is in the field of intercultural theatre collaborations in general and specifically in the scope of community development theatre, e.g. in Iraq, Sudan and Palestine. His artistic and academic focus lies on documentarism and its contribution to an alternative historiography.


Angelique Doludag
Social worker

3 months

Angelique Doludag has worked in different areas of social work, e. g. with commercial sexworkers and victims of human trafficking from West Africa and in Kenya on various community development projects. In Morocco she worked in the field of so-called irregular migration. The main focus of her studies are intercultural social work and international migration. Additionally she is a trainer for intercultural learning. In 2010 we realised several community development projects around Kenya - mainly focusing on the topic of HIV prevention and women’s rights.


Be a part of the project!
A Room of One's Own is the title of the Documentary Theatre project that they want to realize during their Residency@Jaaga. For the project they need people - as performers, partners or contributors.

The title comes from Virgina Woolf’s essay, in which she discusses among other issues the material conditions of feminine life and the following questions: Does a society offer concepts other than being a wife, mother or housewife? If so, what are these? Where do they take place? What do intimacy and privacy mean?

This essay will serve as a starting point and prism through which they want to explore contemporary Indian society. The participants will combine Woolf’s text with documents of their own reality: e.g. newspaper articles, own memories, extracts of other literary or sociological texts, etc. It is an encounter between theatre and social work, creating a social process around the crucial issue of gender relations, with interventions at precisely the points where people start to act with their environment, to support social change. And begs the question of how they as theatre maker and social worker can avoid cultural imperialism.

Call or mail Kai & Angelique TODAY if you want to get into a Room of One's Own: angelique.doludag@gmx.de      +91 8861004094