Resilient Theatre:
Interview with Clout Theatre
Facciocose is happy to present a series of short interviews on Resilient Theatre with theatre practitioners based in Europe discussing what it means to continue making theatre during the pandemic and the ways in which companies have adapted to the new reality.
Today we would like to introduce our first guest - Clout Theatre.
Clout Theatre in “Feast” . PH by Richard Davenport. Top pic by Volkan Erkan.
Formed in 2012, Clout Theatre met and trained at Lecoq in Paris. They made their first show rehearsing in Paris squats and this grimey aesthetic has formed the foundations of all their work. Although their performance style contains strong influences from their training, they have carved out their own theatrical language and now make work heavily reliant on the visual, grotesque and strange.
With members from Russia, England, France and Turkey, they strive to make physically bold theatre for an international audience. Using absurd humour, violence, mess and visual poetry, their work deals with the sublime and the ridiculous in equal measure.
We are very excited to share with you our conversation with 2 co-artistic directors of Clout Theatre company: Sacha Plaige and Mine Çerçi.
Highlights from the interview:
““During the pandemic artists were No.1 useless people…””
PH by Anastasiia Tikhonova
““Sign up for something that you don’t have to be responsible for.””