Workshop
Pan Pan International Mentorship Programme 2023 with Susanne Kennedy
with Susanne Kennedy
From January to June 2023, renowned German theatre director Susanne Kennedy will work with five contemporary performing arts makers based in Ireland. This mentorship programme is a unique opportunity for theatre and performance makers to develop an early-stage idea for performance, outside the pressures of production. The engagement of the mentor is aimed to pose challenges and offer interrogations within a supportive structure.
Symposium Day
Friday, 21 July 2023, 1:30-4:30pm
Project Arts Centre
39 Essex St E,
Temple Bar,
Dublin 2,
D02 RD45
The Symposium Day is an informal event where the participants will introduce and discuss some of the ideas and working methods that they explored during the mentorship.
Admission free.
Susanne Kennedy
Susanne Kennedy is a theatre director whose singular aesthetic and approach introduce a fresh current to male-centric perspectives that ground Western theatre.
In her works, distorted by masks, playback dialogue and multimedia, the actors confront the audience with the question: what does it mean to be human? Susanne Kennedy lives and works as a theatre director and artist in Berlin. Together with the visual artist Markus Selg she explores the boundaries between man and machine. In their theatre works they set up situations where reality and simulation become blurred.
Participants
Fiona Breen
As a devisor and performer Fiona Breen’s practice flexes between ecology, autobiography and history. Her recent performance work includes Gull (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2022) and Root (Dublin Theatre Festival, 2021), which she devised alongside her daughter, Shanna May Breen.
In 2019 Fiona composed The Meadow, a site specific soundscape in Birr Workhouse Graveyard, Co. Offaly. Currently Fiona is working on My brother, your sisters, a new solo performance about her missing brother Peter.
Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng 吳彩萍
Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng 吳彩萍 (they / she) is a Hong Kong-Irish theatre maker and Linbury Prize-winning designer. They have designed for venues including the Abbey Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and Singapore Repertory Theatre. Their most recent piece of theatre making WINDOW A WORLD was co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival and BUDA Belgium.
Sara Joyce
Sara is a director/writer who recently directed THE LAST RETURN for Druid. Sara was selected for the 2021 National Theatre director’s course, is a graduate of Old Vic 12, was Resident Director at Almeida and Soho Theatres. She studied Drama and Theatre at Trinity College and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq.
Lauren Moukarzel
Lauren Moukarzel is a playwright working at the intersection of text and technology. Past work: Rescue Annie (2021), Fetch (2019), Viva Voce (2018) in Dublin Fringe Festival. She was an Abbey Works initiative playwright in 2019 and trained on The Lir Academy’s MFA playwriting programme 2017/18.
Jack Rogers
Jack Rogers is a multi-disciplinary artist from Co. Louth working primarily within the industries of performance, puppetry and set design. His practice is currently concerned with his relationship to queerness, masculinity, and the rural identity.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.