Who we are
We must love not ourselves in art but art in ourselves. - Stanislavski
Laura Pasetti
Artistic Director
"I want to recover a theatrical sense that has been lost. I want it to be primarily educational and a spiritual path, not just entertainment. It can be entertaining, but the aim is for audience and players to go home with the soul richer and nourished. I want a theatre that can raise consciousness, and I want to create this by producing higher quality actors and higher quality product. We need actors who are able to reach beyond their own ego, to be in some ways like monks, preparing to sacrifice everything when preparing a play. There is a higher purpose - awakening consciousness; no actors will do that just for entertainment. Seeing a play performed in a certain way, with authenticity, could really enrich and stimulate people to go home and . . . paint a better picture, cook a better dinner . . . ultimately fill up life with more love."
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Clare Waddington
"I was born and bred a true Lancashire lass in the little mill town of Oldham, and the home of the tubular bandage! After completing my schooling, I trained to be a teacher of Drama and Music and worked for a time in a secondary school. I eventually realised that I wanted to extend my knowledge of both theatre and performance, and so embarked upon a three year course of training with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Since then, I have brought up my two sons, at the same time working in both Britain and Germany in theatres and schools. I have now reached a stage of assessment in my life, and feel the need to work on a much deeper and more meaningful level. My involvement with Charioteer Theatre presents me with the opportunity to rediscover the artist within, a journey which I look forward to immensely.
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Anatoli Vassiliev
Patron of Charioteer Theatre
Charioteer is honoured to be able to name, as patron, Theatre Master Anatoli Vassiliev, disciple of Maria Knebel, and considered one of the last few theatre genius in Europe. The famous Russian theatre director, who has his own theatre in Moscow, in 2004 was invited by ENSATT (National Higher School of Theatre Arts and Technics, based in Lyon, France) to create a new Department - that of Theatre Directing.
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Guest teachers include:
Marise Flach
Born in Paris, she attended the School for Dramatic Arts E.P.J.D. (Education
Pour le Jeu Dramatique), subsequently joining the group of Etienne Decroux
and later becoming his assistant. Marise Flach has taught the art of
Mime and Body Expression, with her special Technique and never ending
creativity, to hundreds of performers and theatre directors across the
world, many of whom are now very well known. She can be considered one
of the greatest teachers in her field.
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prefer.Giorgio Bongiovanni
Giorgio is an actor and director who has specialized in the Commedia
Del'Arte tradition. Student of world famous "last Arlecchino" Ferrucio
Soleri, he has being playing the masks of Pantalone and Brighella in the
play "Arlecchino, Servant of Two Masters" directed by Giongio Strehler,
for the last ten year, all over the world. He alternates his work on stage
with teaching and directing. Recently back from a tour in the United States,
he will be in China in Autumn 2006.
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Why "Charioteer"?
"While I was in Moscow working with Master Vassiliev on the text "Phaedrus" written by Plato, I was particularly touched by the description of the soul as a charioteer led by two horses, a white one, obedient and easy to drive, and a black, rebellious and instinctive that makes the charioteer struggle. The charioteer drives the chariot and the two horses on a journey above the skies to see the gods. I felt that this was the perfect image for a theatre on a journey in the sky of life searching for the truth . . ."
Laura Pasetti, Artistic Director