SONLAB

A laboratory for students of theatre faculties and young theatre practitioners who seek to challenge traditional institutional theatrical methodologies and collectively invent relevant tools for working in the theatre.

SONLAB

A laboratory for students of theatre faculties and young theatre practitioners who seek to challenge traditional institutional theatrical methodologies and collectively invent relevant tools for working in the theatre.

SONLAB

A laboratory for students of theatre faculties and young theatre practitioners who seek to challenge traditional institutional theatrical methodologies and collectively invent relevant tools for working in the theatre.

SONLAB is a laboratory for students of theatre faculties and young theatre practitioners who seek to challenge traditional institutional theatrical methodologies and collectively invent relevant tools for working in the theatre.
The starting idea for the collaborative research work was Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia — a space simultaneously connected to reality and detached from it, a space opposite to utopia because it is real, a space that requires special rituals for entry and exit, a space that reflects reality through a distortion intended to initiate change.
Inspired by the Romanian theatre professor Theodor-Cristian Popescu, the participants' dreams became the source material for the dramaturgy and stage action. Thus, by creating a stage based on the oneiric world, simultaneously connected and unconnected to our commonly accepted reality, the participants invented ways of working that exist despite and beyond centralized, imposed critical interpretations.
The laboratory lecturers included:
Alin Uberti — a theatre and film director, as well as a dramaturg from Bucharest, Romania. He has experience directing dramatic and post-dramatic theatre on the local and international stage. His favourite method for working on a performance is devising, which includes (but is not necessarily limited to) site-specific spaces and themes, contemporary adaptation of classical texts, postmodern collage, a democratic, equitable, and collective approach to creativity, and lots of jokes.
Liuba Ilnytska — a dramaturg, theatre curator, and translator. Since 2021, she has been the curator of the theatre program at the Jam Factory Art Center in Lviv. She collaborates with the independent Nafta Theatre in Kharkiv as a dramaturg and on educational projects. She develops various strategies for problematizing stage fiction through the methodologies of documentary and physical theatre. She focuses on themes of collective memory, identity politics, new ecologies, and the socially engaged body.
Realized under the Vidnova Placement program, established by Commit by MitOst gGmbH and funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

Lecturers:
Alin Uberty
Liuba Ilnytska

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Nafta Theatre

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21/23, Chornoglazivska Street, Kharkiv

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+380 50 509 3435

E-MAIL

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