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About Peter Lichtenfels

I am interested in collaboration in the theatre and as a practitioner I have worked for decades as a collaborative director. My critical and scholarly research focuses on collaboration more widely and includes director-actor work on body and text, and increasingly focuses on energizing the audience and how actor-actor energies reach out to audiences and getting audience involved in bodies and words. What I work towards is for the energy of the actors, the energy of the stage and the energy of the audience to feed each other.

Somewhere in this relationality – because it is not working with defined human characteristics – I am thinking with the current discussions around humanness, animals and objects.

My entire career has been in experimenting different ways of doing theatre. Currently I am probing what happens when the actors in the production are all rehearsing a production simultaneously. This creates a different kind of dramaturgy, and experimental relationship between director, production staff, designers and director.