Workshop
Improvisation Techniques
Gamal Yakout (Egypt)
Acting, Directing, and Theatre Production Professor at Alexandria University
A hands-on workshop exploring improvisation techniques through both practice and analysis. The exercises draw on the collaborative and creative methods developed by modern theatre schools.
Participants delve into the mechanisms of theatrical creation through improvisation, allowing them to grasp the nature of characters, events, and conflicts without relying on pre-written texts.
The workshop aims to cultivate creativity by training actors to tap into their internal and external resources for character development, overcome their fears, and strengthen their confidence, both in themselves and in their partners, through heightened awareness of body, voice, and rhythm.
Gamal Yakout (Egypt)
Professor of Dramatic Art at the Department of Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria, and at the Higher Institute of Theatre Arts, Gamal Yakout has also directed the Cairo International Experimental Theatre Festival. After a career as an actor, he turned to directing and has presented over a hundred plays, some of which have won awards at national and international festivals. He has founded and directed several festivals, including “Theatre Without Production,” and has chaired juries in Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Tunisia. He is the author of the five-volume encyclopedia “Theatrical Production,” as well as numerous articles and books on theatre.
