Please note: Under productions there are still bits & parts of this webpage under construction ...
New Production ...
Told by the Wind – ON TOUR to BERLIN, UK, POLAND
Created by Kaite O’Reilly, Jo Shapland, and Phillip Zarrilli
Artistic Consultants: Mari Boyd (Tokyo) and Peader Kirk (London)
“...hypnotic...a haunting painterly beauty...[with] the astringent purity of a haiku poem... intense meditation in movement...the performers have a remarkable presence.”
Elisabeth Mahoney, THE GUARDIAN **** Feb 2010
Two figures, two lives, multiple time spaces: TOLD BY THE WIND is a new performance of movement and text that ‘dances’ an inner landscape. Inspired by East Asian and ‘post-dramatic’ aesthetics, stories are evoked and told by embodied silences, splintered interactions, and slowed down motion.
Transformative and multi-layered, TOLD is informed by Japanese Theatre of Quietude and String Theory [Quantum physics]. Intimate and meditative, it is a requiem for the unseen; a poignant duet for two figures who never physically meet.
Forthcoming workshops ...
Summer Intensive Training in Wales:
Beginner's Intensive:
3-8 July, 2010
at Tyn-y-Parc Studio in Llanarth, Wales, UK.
Click here for further details.
Intermediate & Advanced Intensive:
10-24 July, 2010
at Tyn-y-Parc Studio in Llanarth, Wales, UK.
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The Evora Books: A Library of Hands:
24 August - 3 September 2010.
an intensive 10 day workshop in Psychophysical training applied to devised site-specific performance co-led by Phillip Zarrilli and Kaite O'Reilly, culminating in a work-in-progress showing in the beautiful ancient Evora Library, Portugal.
Summer School. Part of The Festival Escrita na Paisagem 2010 (Writing in the Landscape)
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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.
