Educational Work
Ludens Theatre Company is committed to community development and enrichment. We are proud to offer workshops and higher education modules for all skill levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals. If you'd like to enquire about hosting educational workshops for your community, click the button below.
Previous Work
The Institute for Contemporary Theatre
For the 2022 Spring and Winter terms, Ludens Theatre Company designed and taught ICT's first ever full immersive theatre module for the BA Performance course.
Resulting in over 360 hours of class time, students engaged in a holistic exploration of the history, current field, practices, and business of immersive theatre. Students explored improvisational workshops, the work of landmark practitioners such as Augusto Boal, an in-depth study of current and recent popular immersive productions both local and international, collaborative working styles, devising techniques, fundraising tools, and networking tactics. Throughout the first term, students collaborated to workshop a concept for an original interactive immersive production utilizing the skills and practices discussed in class. A developmental showing was presented to students and faculty, and was ultimately green-lit for a fully-realized mainstage production, the first immersive production in the history of the university.
Over the course of the second term, students collaborated to create all aspects of their devised piece, including narrative beats, game mechanics, props, sets, costumes, script, alternate endings, and technological components. The resulting production was performed to public audiences for a week-long run.
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Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Beginning in 2022, Ludens Theatre Company provided half-day guest lectures and introductory workshops for the Advanced Theatre Practice MA and MFA courses at CSSD.
With a deeper focus on artistic ethics and theory-based practice, students explored an introduction to the mechanics of both interactive and promenade immersive theatre devisory processes.
Watford Palace Theatre
In the spring of 2022, Ludens Theatre Company Developed and taught two workshops for Watford Palace Theatre's community companies: the Palace Young Company and the People's Palace Company. Both workshops introduced community members to the basics of creating immersive theatre, with varying degrees of depth. The PYC Workshops took place over two full days, and the PPC Workshops were four hours over two days.
