Workshop: Staging Personal Narratives
01 pm – 08 pm, Sun 30 Mar 2025
Deadline for application: 11:59 pm, 17 Mar 2025
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From the organizer:
How to tell our own stories in the most captivating way?
Why should other people, who have nothing to do with our life, care?
At the end of the day, what to talk about when we talk about ourselvses?
To kick off the Year of the Snake, The Run is excited to introduce the workshop “Staging Personal Narratives”, co-facilitated by Afshan D’souza Lodhi and Trà Nguyễn. This workshop invites participants to experiment with memoirs, performance, and speculative fiction to contemplate how such forms honour the complexity of human existence, question the storyteller’s agency and the dominant narratives disciplining it. Participants will learn different techniques and methods, through practical writing and performing exercises, to bring personal histories on stage.
This workshop is open to anyone interested in performance. Prior experience in writing or staging is welcomed but not required. We will offer English-Vietnamese translation.
Fee: VND 250,000. Limited slots available.
If you’re interested in experimenting with performance tools to present your stories and do real work(shop), submit your CV/Portfolio and a few lines describing your interest via this link
For those interested in the workshop, don’t miss “How to Eat Mangoes”, a performance lecture by Afshan D’souza Lodhi on March 28-29, right before the workshop! Come to this show to enjoy juicy comfy matchmaking stories powered by mango magic. This show will also be the perfect lead-in to the workshop.
Get your ticket here.
About Afshan D’souza Lodhi
Afshan d’souza-lodhi was born in Dubai and forged in Manchester. She is a writer of scripts and poetry. Her work has been performed and translated into numerous languages across the world. afshan has been writer-in-residence for Sky Studios, New Writing North, Royal Exchange Theatre, Warner Bros Discovery and was writer-in-residence for Bluebird Pictures. afshan was also one of the first to receive The National Theatre’s Peter Shaffer award in 2022. She was named by National Centre for Writing as one of the ILX10 – an exciting, dynamic, and thought-provoking early-career writer whose work has the powerful potential to speak to and engage with global literary audiences.
About Trà Nguyễn
Trà Nguyễn experiments with theater and builds frameworks to transfer such capacity. Her theater works, typically extremely slow-pacing, seek to open up and reside in the quieting space of attention. She earns an MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University (US) on Fulbright scholarship, and has presented her plays and workshops in Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and the US. Currently based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Trà Nguyễn builds infrastructure for experimental theater-making via production, training, and critical discourses with her initiative The Run – A Theater Project.
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