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Greek Language For Foreingers

The Theater of Changes offers Greek language lessons for foreigners living and working in Greece.

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International Festival of Making Theater

Every year (since 2005) the Theater of Changes organizes the International Festival of Making Theater (In.F.o.Ma.T.)
Press here  to see the invitation for teachers and participants of our next festival
that will be held at our premises on June 29th – July 4th 2026

    For more information on the previous festivals press here

Monica Hunken, U.S.A. New York 2021



Monica Hunken is a theater-maker and activist based in Brooklyn, NY.  Her work has been produced in NY and across the world. Monica is currently performing her new show, Mt Rushmore, which she developed in Iceland at the Fish Factory Residency and performed in the Exponential Festival in NY January 2019.  In 2017 she was an artist in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm as well as the recipient of the Petrolio Performance Art Award 2017 in recognition for her commitment towards addressing urgent social issues with artistic responses.  Her recent immersive ensemble piece, Outside the World, places audience  in the shoes of refugees entering a camp.  It has been produced at HERE Arts Center as part of the Sanctuary Festival and in Maine at the BarnArts Residency program.  Her first play, Reading the Water, (dir. Laura Newman) produced at HERE, selected for the American Living Room Festival, explores the mysterious death of her scientist father and illuminates the dangerous conditions at his laboratory.  Blondie of Arabia,  (dir. Laura Newman) produced at The Living Theatre, tells the tale of Hunken’s solo bike ride across the Middle East.  It won first place, the Audience Award, at the Apostrof Festival in Prague and was selected for the Theater of Change Festival in Athens, Greece, Sibiu Intnl. Theater Festival in Romania, Glastonbury Festival in England, Colchester Arts Centre, Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival in Wales and De Parade Festival in the Netherlands.   Her third play, The Wild Finish, (dir. Melissa Chambers) about her bicycle journey across Poland to find the story of her grandfather, was originally produced in Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival, again by the Polish Cultural Institute and has been chosen for the Amsterdam Fringe, Porsgrunn International Theater Festival in Norway, The International Storyteller's Festival at Grodza Gate in Lublin, Poland, Studio Alta in Prague, Czech Republic and Horse’s Mouth Theater Festival in Sydney, Australia.  Collaborations include: Mud, The Musical! which she co-wrote and starred in, Another Hero; a Choose Your Own Adventure Climate Show-an immersive production and Head in the Sand with Smoke and Mirrors.  Hunken earned a B.F.A. in Drama from ETW and an M.A. in Educational Theatre at NYU and has since taught  in Thailand, Greece, India, Australia, trained in Amsterdam, Poland and Ireland.  Monica is an activist who has worked with environmental group Time’s-Up!, organizes against fracked gas infrastructure, was Action Captain for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping for a decade, is a creative direct action trainer with Beautiful Trouble, Resist Spectra and Rainforest Action Network and co-founded all-women bicycle dance troupe NYBike Dance.   Hunken is an Associate Artistic Director of new company, Al Límite, and leads workshops and performances globally.
 
Physical Storytelling: Using Impulse for Creative Process

 Through physical exercises and forms we can access  dormant energy and creative materials that lie within and let them out to play. This class explores various physical theater techniques to generate stories.  Methods include Viewpoints, Grotowski’s plastiques and corporals, improvisation, vocal techniques and Monica's own brand of developing solo material.