Let's trod the boards

Welcome meeting and presentation of the new projects : TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 at the TURLg, quai Roosevelt 1b - 4000 Liège

The Royal University Theatre of Liège (TURLg) welcomes all persons, academics or not, impassioned by the various techniques of theatre. He proposes to develop performances chosen for their interest and opportunities for the group involved. Several performances are proposed each season by different groups formed on the basis of the needs of the productions. The shows are created the following season in Belgium and then can tour abroad.

The TURLg has long been a regular at major international university theater festivals around the world, from Hungary to Quebec, North Africa to Lithuania, Bulgaria, Mexico and Venezuela.

Since 1983, TURLg organizes in Liege international meetings of university theater (RITU).

It also organizes semi-annual workshops for children, teens, students and adults, as well as intensive courses during the holidays.

He is the official headquarters of the International Association of Theatre at the University (IUTA), which he chaired until 2008.

"About our method"

One can talk before reading and writing (even the little Chinese!).

One can play music before knowing music theory.

One can trod the boards before knowing what theater is, or even that it exists.

Yet, like language or music, the theater has its grammar, its rules that one must master one day if you want to get out of ordinary stuff : in the theater, everything is allowed ... except the "anything".

For me, the grammar of the theater is based on four key elements:

the body (voice, look, movement)

the mind (intellect and emotion, energy and generosity)

the space (scenic and public)

the text (text, subtext, non text, form and content).

These four components must be addressed in parallel, of course, but also together as a whole, solidly structured, called "show". This structure requires a grammatical work.

Work on the body and the mind to create a living person. Work on the text - if any - in both form and in meaning, for oneself and the others - players and spectators - in a space occupied wisely and effectively manned.

It was not easy to state the principle (the rule of grammar) above. It is even more difficult to implement it : this is what our courses and workshops are about.

It is the exercise that makes the master.

Robert Germay