The Tricky Thing About Truth

The session, led by theatre maker Nathan Powell will focus on how we work with young people and community groups to tell stories important to them, rooted in truth, in a way that is safe and flexible to participants needs.

The workshop will be a mixture of conversation and practical tasks that will offer participants an insight Nathans way of working.

The session will focus on:

• Creating a safe and efficient space for exploration
• Creating theatre from people’s truths and lived experience
• Pastoral support for participants and you
• Life after a project
• Space for questions, discussing and group skill sharing

Please confirm you are attending this session by clicking the sign-up button above.

Closed captions will be available for this session via Otter AI and details on how to use this will be provided on the day. Please let us know if you have any other access requirements using the space on the sign up form so we can get appropriate provision in place.

Zoom details will be emailed the day before the session.

 

Nathan Powell is a director and writer, making new work that invites people into the theatre with open arms and a smile.  A large part of his work is creating with young people – he is an advocate for the benefits of engaging with the arts and a champion of young people’s work.  For the last two years he was Associate Director with 20 Stories High in Liverpool.

Recent work includes Suck. Your. Mum, writer (Part of 846 for Theatre Royal Stratford East), The Spine which he wrote and directed (20 Stories High), Macbeth, director (Orange Tree), and Holloway Jones, director (Nottingham Playhouse).

Twitter – @NathanPowell141
Instagram – @othniel_141

 

RTYDS is currently curating the Young Vic Directors Programme. You don’t need to be a member of the Genesis Network to take part in this session, but you do need to be a professional director, designer or producer and not in full time education.

You can find out more about the Young Vic Genesis Network and sign up here.

The Genesis Network is funded by the Genesis Foundation.