Conspiracy Theatre

Once a month
November-June

Taught by Christina Gyftaki

Misinformation, conspiracy theories, religious fundamentalism? Social networking, digital information flow, yellow press? Fear, anger, indignation, coexistence, trust, manipulation? We don’t have a script? Money? Platonic love?
We have humor. And if we don’t have humor, we’ll find it.
An opportunity to develop our own conspiracy theory.
We will address these often incomprehensible situations in a humorous way, analyze them, play them (theatrically), and laugh with them.
Once a month we keep our theatrical omertà.

With theater-pedagogical methods such as role-playing, improvisation, and scenic representations, not only cognitive but also emotional understanding of the effects and impact of misinformation and conspiracy theories will be created. Somehow we will gain the necessary distance from all this and reveal their existence in real life to our audience through our performance.

(Theatrical narratives are often constructed to reflect some of humanity’s deepest concerns: the disappearance of man, government conspiracies, war, and conflict. The history of theater has addressed these concerns in different ways, for example, Renaissance Theater expressed an apocalyptic fear alongside distrust of government. More recently, postmodern theater has been shaped by Cold War events and demonstrates a fear of an inherent apocalyptic rupture, offering us a skeptical and suspicious view of the world. Other modern and contemporary texts ask us to question reality itself. We will write history with our own conspiracy theory that will be revealed to the audience from the stage.)