Rehearsals, Training, Workshops

The group meets regularly on a weekly basis. Usually sessions last about 2/3 hours, twice or three times a week during the initial stages of the project. The amount of hours escalates the closer the group gets to the production week. During this climatic period, sessions may be as long as 6 hours daily. Projects take approximately 6 to 7 months to be completed.During the first period the group goes through a research process - exploring ideas, movement, voice, sound, music and visual images through workshops given out by the members themselves. The work is usually either 100% original or takes a pre-existing text or concept as a starting point. The group’s aim, however, is to always put on a personal stamp through our own tailor-made process.

Later on Simone, the Artistic Director, starts writing or assembling the text which is constructed around various sequences created during the workshops. The process is bilateral - either she writes the text using some of the sequences created as a springboard or it is the text/ parts of it which suggest the need for a particular sequence to be created.

Music comes in either in the final stages of the performance or half way through, depending on the project and what the text needs and suggests.

The group also seeks to create constant collaborations with artists from divergent artistic spheres. So far numerous Du` Theatre Projects have been in partial or total collaboration with photographers, visual artists, musicians and other alternative theatre groups. Moreover, the group also seeks to branch out to the International Arena of Theatre and Art and has so far participated in various Theatre Festivals around Europe.

Group members have also attended various local and foreign Master classes, such as Nick Parkin's workshop on Landscape Theatre, a practice the group keeps as a constant and important priority in light of the group’s and the individual performers’ artistic growth.