TDTWT Intensive III: THE LIFE OF THINGS

How can we tell stories through objects? And what happens when an object becomes a character, a partner, or part of an ensemble?In this workshop, led by Alina Weber, participants explore puppetry through curiosity, play, and physical experimentation. Working individually and as an ensemble, we will experiment with objects, materials, and puppets, exploring different ways of giving them presence, movement, and life.The workshop draws on different forms of puppetry and performance and invites participants to discover the relationship between performer, object, and audience—and to explore puppetry as a versatile theatrical language, rather than a single technique. AboutThroughout the Autumn Season, London Performance Studios is excited to host a series of five workshops led by our resident theatre company The Director’s Theatre Writer’s Theatre (TDTWT). The workshops are tailored to professional actors, physical theatre practitioners, and drama students. Each workshop offers 15 hours of immersive exploration over three to five days. Led by artists across a wide spectrum of disciplines, these sessions will explore Active Analysis, mask work, puppetry, physical theatre, and voice. Alina Weber is a puppeteer, performer and director based in Dresden, Germany. She studied Contemporary Puppetry at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin from 2012–2016. She has been part of The Director's Theatre Writer's Theatre (TDTWT) since 2017. She works across theatre, film and radio in London, Basel, Paris, and beyond. Since 2019, she has been a member of the puppetry ensemble at tjg. theater junge generation in Dresden, one of Germany’s largest theatres for young audiences. Alongside her work as a puppeteer, she develops her own projects as a director, exploring the possibilities of puppetry, objects, and physical theatre. The Director’s Theatre Writer’s Theatre (TDTWT) is an international ensemble that has been creating plays primarily within the contemporary visual art context since 2013—integrating the black box of the theatre into the white cube of the gallery.TDTWT’s work forms a hybrid of dramatic and post-dramatic theatre; blending post-dramatic aesthetics, classic narrative structures like melodrama and queer theory, and utilising Stanislavsky’s Active Analysis and structured Etudes. TDTWT stages original writing, adaptations of plays or novels, and commissions new plays by associate writers.As of 2025, TDTWT is the resident theatre company at London Performance Studios, where it produces and programmes productions or workshops on a seasonal basis with the aim to create a solid and constant repertoire of contemporary theatre and performance. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, to discuss this with the team email [email protected]