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Productions for 2013 ...
[Playing] the Maids
31 August/1 September 2013
Work in progress showings
a collaboration between
THE LLANARTH GROUP (Wales, U.K.), GAITKRASH (Cork, Republic of Ireland), and THEATRE P'YUT (Seoul, Korea).
[Playing] the Maids is not a production of Genet's text, but a response to the opportunities, relationships, and dynamics offered by Genet's inherently meta-theatrical source text - a visually rich, flamboyant, fast-moving, poignant, multi-media encounter with what lies within. [Playing] the Maids will be performed by a five woman ensemble working multi-linguistically between English, Korean, and Mandarin, accompanied by two on-stage musicians.
The artistic team includes:
Director: Phillip Zarrilli, LLANARTH GROUP (Wales) Dramaturg: Kaite O'Reilly, LLANARTH GROUP (Wales)
Soundscape/environment: Mick O'Shea, GAITKRASH, assisted by guest musician/cellist, Adrian Curtin (Ireland/UK) Choreographers: Jing Hong Kuo, LLANARTH GROUP (Singapore), and Jeungsook Yoo (traditional Korean dance, THEATRE P'YUT) The Chinese Madame: Jing Hong Kuo (LLANARTH GROUP, from Singapore)
The Irish Sisters: Regina Crowley (Claire) and Bernie Cronin (Solange) (GAITKRASH) The Korean Sisters: Jeungsook Yoo (Claire) and Sunhee Kim (Solange) (THEATRE P'YUT)
Work in progress showings will take place at
Tyn Y Parc Studio, Ceredigion, on Saturday 31st August and
Y Lloft, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, on Sunday 1st September.
With regret, the venues are not fully accessible.
Showings are free, not open to the general public, and available by invitation only by contactingp.zarrilli@exeter.ac.uk
Click here for detailed information about the project.
We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming exchange, interaction, collaboration between Phillip Zarrilli, Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group, resident dramaturg/playwright, Kaite O'Reilly, and Okamura Yojiro, Artistic Director of AMI Theatre Company, Tokyo, Japan, and members of their two companies. With initial funding from Wales Arts International, amongst other sources, an initial two week exchange/interaction will take place in Tokyo between the two companies from 1-16 November, 2013. The exchange/interaction will include performances of The Llanarth Group's Told by the Wind, performance of a new play by Okamura Yojiro, workshop exchanges, and planning toward a collaborative production in 2014 between the two companies. The year-long exchange/collaborative process is part of a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations.
Phillip Zarrilli and Jo Shapland in Told by the Wind co-created by Kaite O'Reilly, Phillip Zarrilli, and Jo Shapland
Aminadab is a theatrical arrangement of "L'Arret de mort"
written by Maurice Blanchot, whom actor-director Okamura Yojiro admires.
Phillip Zarrilli in Act Without Words I
Patricia Boyette in Rockaby
Click here for information about The Beckett Project
Forthcoming workshops ...
Summer Intensive Training in Wales 2013: Beginner's Intensive:
13-17 July, 2013
[Arrival between 12:00-15:00. 1st training session from 16:00-19:00 on July 13.
Final session on July 17 from 9:00-12:00. Departures after lunch on 17 July.]
at Tyn-y-Parc Studio in Llanarth, Wales, UK.
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Intermediate & Advanced Intensive:
20 July- 03 August, 2013
[Arrivals in time for evening meal on 20 July. Departures on Saturday morning 3 August.]
at Tyn-y-Parc Studio in Llanarth, Wales, UK.
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Short-term performing artist residencies ... ... for ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS of Psychophysical Training with Phillip Zarrilli
Date of announcement: 8 April, 2012
at Tyn y parc CVN Kalari/Studio, LLANARTH, WALES, UK
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Publications ... Psychophysical Acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 ATHE Outstanding Book Award. Jonathan Chambers, Chair of the Review Committee said: "we found your melding of scholarly, artistic, and pedagogical concerns to be incredibly useful. We are certain that your study will find a wide and welcoming audience."
The award will be made on August 3, 2010 at the ATHE Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles.
Psychophysical Acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski
Zarrilli’s long-awaited book on the process of training actors through a psychophysical approach based on Asian martial arts and yoga will be published in September, 2008 by Routledge Press (London). The book will include a DVD-ROM by Peter Hulton.
THEATRE TOPICS (19, #2, 2009: p. 223), review by Keven McFillen. Psychophysical Acting is "a powerful tool for those interested in exploring the theory, philosophy, and practice of methods of psychophysical acting. The detailed case studies by themselves should warrant critical attention for the volume from theatre scholars and practitioners alike, and accompanied by both Zarrilli's insights into teaching and practice of psychophysical acting and the supplementary materials provided by the DVD-ROM, the volume as a whole is an immediate, important, and vital addition to discourses on psychophysical theory and practice in performance."
NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY (25, #3, 2009: p. 296), review by Sarah Gorman. Psychophysical Acting "...provides a detailed and fascinating insight into the potential benefit of psychophysical training for the contemporary actor...[It will] appeal to a wide range of readers...Each case study provides a detailed and simulating overview of the production and an insight into how Zarrilli implemented his chosen techniques in rehearsal. The introductions to The Beckett Project and 4:48 Psychosis in particular, provide an insightful and intelligent way of contextualizing what is important and difficult about the work of Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane."
2008 “ Embodying Imagining and Performing Displacement and Trauma in Central Europe Today”
in Theatre Quarterly Review, Volume 24, Issue 01, Feb 2008, pp 24-40, ed. Maria Shevtsova,
Simon Trussler. Cambridge University Press .
Recent production ...
The World Premiere of Kaite O’Reilly’s The Almond and the Seahorse
Phillip Zarrilli directed the world premiere of Kaite O’Reilly’s most recent play, The Almond and the Seahorse, at Sherman-Cymru Theatre (Cardiff and on tour). The production previewed February 29, ran until March 15, and then is on toured Wales and England.
See the video-trailer, photographs (coming soon), and production reviews.
“Unmissable drama...Tremendous... extraordinary scenarios are tenderly drawn and powerfully realised in Phillip Zarrilli's beautifully judged production." ***** The Guardian
“A powerful drama, beautifully written…Phillip Zarrilli's insightful direction ensures that the performances have absolute authenticity.”
The British Theatre Guide
“A fascinating work, totally engaging… The cast is faultless, giving impeccable performances, sympathetically given and true.”
**** Western Mail
“…Wonderful…a masterly and captivating performance…writing with such sensitive beauty and delicate understanding….what real theatre is all about.”
Michael Kelligan Theatre Wales website
For Gwennan, it’s always 1985. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and there’s a strange man at the door claiming to be her husband. Joe’s past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. What happens when you’re ambushed by time – your memories deleting, relationships erasing?
The play focuses on those who have survived Traumatic Brain Injury, informed by a Disability perspective.
Korean Production of 4:48 Psychosis opens in Seoul Phillip Zarrilli was in residence at KNUA in Seoul, Korea from early March through mid May. He taught his psychophysical approach to acting, applied to directing a new translation of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis. The production had six performances, May 15-17, 2008.
Also ... Resident Fellow in Berlin: Phillip Zarrilli has been invited to become a resident Fellow for a major new research project on intercultural theatre (“Interweaving Theatre Cultures”) at the Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, led by Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte. The project begins in 2008-09. Zarrilli will be a resident in Berlin for two or three substantive periods between 2010-11.
