With a little help from my friends – Theatre Workshop

The Weltbühne (World Stage) in Heckenbeck, a small village with only 450 inhabitants, is a cultural centre with a large theatre hall in a former guesthouse. Every year, the local community looks forward to an international theatre project and it is for this reason that you group will be spending 2 weeks as guests in the village. Together with young people from other countries, you will be taking part in a theatre workshop surrounding the topic of “Friendship”. Many songs have been written about friendship, many poems have been penned and many films have been made. Even science has investigated friendship: BCYIQNCPLG – these are the basic building blocks of the hormone Oxytocin, which our body releases when we feel friendly and comfortable with others. But can friendship be traced back to such a simple formula? What is behind this feeling? How many friends do we need at all? Is friendship good for your health? You will become friendship researchers and share stories or trust, comfort, longing and perhaps also betrayal. Together you will design short scenes consisting of roleplays, character work, interactions and improvisations. As a result of your research and your own creative ideas, you will create a play together with guidance and support from a theatre teacher. This play will be performed in front of an audience. www.weltbuehne.info