Your Unknown Side – CONNECT TO YOURSELF

We all play characters we can relate to easily: We may know our maternal or childlike side well, the active hero within us, or we may simply be able to empathize with our personified innocence. And at the same time, there are characters we may find difficult to portray believably without turning them into caricatures. Perhaps one of us struggles with the dull, bullying villain, while another struggles with the manipulative temptress?

How do we bring these characters to the stage as strong, interesting and vivid figures? How can we bring them to life again and again over the course of an entire evening? And what does it mean for our storytelling when we play out the scenes entirely through strong characters?

This workshop is based on the belief that all facets of humanity are already inherent within us. Nothing is truly foreign to us, even if we give certain aspects less space in our lives. This is where we begin, bringing to life a wide variety of personalities for our improvised scenes—personalities that are far removed from the stereotypes we usually create on the fly.

By combining Inside-Out and Outside-In-techniques, we ensure that we maintain the characters on stage, keeping them flexible, yet still recognizable. And last but not least, we make sure that the story—as if by itself—emerges from the characters and is allowed to unfold moment by moment.

This course will be taught in German.