From 1997 to 2003 Pan Pan produced the Dublin International Theatre Symposium, a unique and dynamic programme of talks, workshops, demonstration-performances and full productions.

The Symposium gave an Irish audience the chance to engage with a variety of styles, approaches and viewpoints in contemporary theatre from Europe and further afield, allowing space for discussion and engagement with the theatre artists through the workshop and talks programmes and through the demonstration-performances, giving an insight into the varied creation processes. Symposia 1 – 4 included an open plenary session on the final day where the audience and participants were welcome to discuss the week.

3rd Symposium Participants

Amharclann de hÍde, Ireland
Demonstration-perforamnce of A Thig Na Tit Orm
Post performance talk with Director Bríd Ó Gallchoir

ArtsLab, Ireland
Demonstration-performance of And the walls will be silent

Bedrock Productions, Ireland
www.bedrockproductions.com
Demonstration-performance of Night Just Before The Forest by Bernard-Marie Koltez
1 day workshop led by Director Jimmy Fay using text from Night Just Before The Forest

CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Ireland
www.coisceim.com
Performance of Straight With Curves

Corcadorca Theatre, Ireland
www.corcadorca.com
Demonstration-performance of Enda Walsh’s Misterman
1 day workshop led by Director Pat Kiernan

Fishamble Theatre, Ireland
http://fishamble.com
Demonstration-performance of rehearsed readings from plays by Pat Kinevane and Joe O’Connor

Greenwich Studio Theatre, UK and Freidrich Ch. Zauner, Austria
www.zauner-literatur.at
Talk by Freidrich ch. Zauner
Demonstration-performance by Greenwich Studio Theatre of Freidrich Ch. Zauner’s A Day Of Reckoning

L’Oiseau Mouche, France
www.oiseau-mouche.org
Demonstration-performance of Rendez Vous, created for the Symposium
2 day workshop using Molly Bloom’s monologue from Ulysses as the starting point

Loose Canon Theatre, Ireland
www.loosecanon.com
Demonstration-performance of The White Devil in rehearsal

Domenico Mongelli, Nuove Produzioni Spettacolari, Italy
2 day workshop based on Andre Gide’s novel The Immortalist
Demonstration-performance with the participants of the workshop

Odin Teatret, Denmark
www.odinteatret.dk
Performance of Roberta Carreri’s Traces in the Snow
Two 3 day workshops, one on actors’ physical training and one on vocal exercises

Pan Pan Theatre, Ireland
Performance of Cartoon

Teatr Ósmego Dnia (Theatre of the Eighth Day), Poland
http://osmego.art.pl
Performance of Wormwood
Two 3 day workshops with the company on individual actor training and collective improvisation

Told by an Idiot, UK
www.toldbyanidiot.org
Demonstration-performance from Don’t Laugh It’s My Life
Workshop with the company on working with Mask

Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo, Japan
www.tomoe.com
Performance of the Butoh performance Kanzan, created for the Symposium
2 day workshop led by Kagaye Sanae

Ultima Vez, Belgium
www.ultimavez.com
3 day workshop for professional dancers with Nienke Reehorst

Patrick Sutton, The Gaiety School of Acting and Peter McAllister, Department of Drama & Theatre Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
www.gaietyschool.com
www.tcd.ie/Drama
Talk on Theatre Training in Ireland
1 day workshop with Patrick Sutton on improvisation

Garry Hynes (Druid Theatre), Johnny Hanrahan (Meridian Theatre) and Alex Johnston (Bedrock Productions), Ireland
www.druidtheatre.com
www.meridiantheatre.com
www.bedrockproductions.com
Talk/panel discussion on ‘General creative impulses and ideologies in Irish Theatre’ and ‘Theatre and reality, theatre as an expression of the individual’