Playwright: Patrik Lazic
Partner: Heartefact
Twinned playwright: Elise Wilk
Co-funded by the European Union
Duration: 6 days
Participants: 15 16-18 years old students at Philological Gymnasium
Location: Heartefact House, Belgrade
Time: 19-21 and 25-27 April 2024
The workshop will be devoted to finding personal stories of the participants about which they would like to write a monologue/drama. The workshop will deal with the first phase of that process: awareness of personal material from which a story can potentially be built, processing and selection of that material, and the beginning of writing a monologue/drama. The cartoon Inside Out will be used as the basis for the workshop, based on which the participants will have several tasks: find their personal core memories (memories that most marked their personality and character), find the roles in their head that “speak” (adopted roles which are often fear, pride, disgust, love, etc.), and then focus on their personal fears, moments in life when they were afraid of themselves. In addition, an overview of key events of each participant’s life will be created year by year, as well as several more exercises for mapping different memories that are crucial for each of them. Based on all that, the participants will start writing their monologues/dramas. In the period after the workshop, they will be able to send their works to mentors, and to further develop monologues/dramas. In addition, the participants will watch performances based on personal stories (Our son by Patrik Lazic, How I Learned to fly by Paula Vogel) in the Hartefakt House during April and May.
