ENGAGEMENT IN LYON

In collaboration with the Alliance Francaise de Malte and the Ariadne Theatre Troupe in Lyon, Mario Azzopardi will be representing the Malta Drama Centre in a series of drama workshops in the French city in March/April 2007. Azzopardi will conduct sessions with members of the French company, young students of theatre studies as well as teachers opting to use drama as a pedagogical tool.  In exchange, two French animators from Ariadne will conduct at the Malta Centre workshops based on Marivaux, who, following the deaths of Moliere and Racine, carried French classical drama towards the turbulent context of the eighteenth century. The Ariadne Troupe was established in 1988 to explore contemporary theatre but also, from time to time, to present themes pertaining to classical drama.  The aims of the company have always been to present theatre in towns and in the country, in large venues as well as unusual, intimate places.