Thomas Ostermeier, director of the Schaubühne and playwright Mark Ravenhill in conversation with Peter M. Boenisch (Aarhus University and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) on why the Schaubühne matters and the role it plays in the German and wider international theatre landscape.
I’ve met Mark on a handful of occasions and I think his work is required reading/seeing for playwrights today. This conversation touches on other notable works and writers such as the impact of Sarah Kane’s Blasted (another writer who is performed in Europe widely). It’s of April 2020 so touches on theatre and the world as of now.
This is Mark talking about the importance of Improvisation, and notably Keith Johnstone’s book, Impro. Impro is an important and classic text for story tellers of all sorts but theatre thinkers in particular. Keith’s book Impro here and for story tellers here.