Onassis AiR | Masterclass & Screening: LOVE (2016) by Alexander Zeldin
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Entrance to the event is free with prior registration. The language of the event is English.
Introduction
The renowned British director and writer, innovator of social realism in international theatre, is currently in Greece as an Onassis AiR Fellow, conducting field research and writing his new work in the framework of the Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowship. Taking the Antigone play by Sophocles as a starting point, Alexander Zeldin embarks on writing a new text for stage which will explore themes of power, ownership, gender and contemporary family structures.
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The evening starts with the video screening of his play LOVE (2016), and will be followed by a masterclass and Q&A.
18:00- 19:30 | Video screening of Alexander Zeldin's theatre play “Love” (2016), 90 minutes
In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped, temporary emergency accommodation. A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sudan. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal. As Christmas approaches, and none of them seem likely to be given a home, they come to a boiling point. In this play written and directed by Zeldin, the audience are invited to bear witness to an intimate story of family love for our times.
19:30 - 20:15 | Masterclass: “Love”, 45 minutes
About love: this is the dominant theme that governs the work of the director and it will be the focus of this masterclass. Zeldin will reflect on his time as an assistant director to Peter Brook and Marie Helene Estienne, discussing the practice of field research and the process of playwriting as storytelling on stage.
The focus will be on the creation of his seminal work, LOVE, which has toured 19 cities worldwide, including major festivals across the globe. Through a singular approach blending work with communities and charities, collaborating with actors who had never set foot on stage, Zeldin will describe parts of the journey towards making a play that Le Monde described as a “new form of social realism”.
