FIVE-DAY BRECHT WORKSHOP WITH DAVID BARNETT

Venue: In-Person Berlin, Schott Acting Studio
Date: 5 Days – September 2nd to 6th, 2026! 
Time: 10:00 am bis 5:00 pm CET
Limited to 16 participants

We designed this workshop for actors on a professional track intermediate/experienced, directors and experienced drama students

On the first days, participants work their way through Brecht’s ideas for a politicized theatre not by speculating on his theories, but by enacting and reflecting on them. Partly through exercises, but mostly through work on scenes and extracts taken from well-known plays, participants engage with a different way of rehearsing dramatic material that actively seeks to expose the power relations inherent in every human interaction.

The workshops as a whole serve to sensitize participants to social issues that sometimes go under the radar. They will become familiar with a detailed and deliberate approach to performance, staging social interactions as a form of choreography. Brechtian theatre intervenes in the dramatic text and changes it fundamentally.

Over the course of the workshop, Barnett equips the participants with a repeatable method and specific ways of looking at the particular problems raised by dramatic extracts.

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