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Greek Language For Foreingers

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

For more information press here

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 participants and the program of our next festival
that will be held at our premises on June 30th – July 4th 2025

    For more information on the previous festivals press here

Tobias Specker / Maartje Van Amersfoort. The Netherlands 2022

   

Tobias Specker 
 
Tobias Specker, age 28, studied Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam as well as the Theatre Teacher Bachelor at ArtEZ School of the Arts in Arnhem. After that he started working as a theatre teacher and director at a secondary school in Amsterdam. Here he also coördinates all the cultural side programs for the first, second and third years. At this school, he designed an educational curriculum on how to teach drama to teenagers. After this he changed school to a secondary school in Haarlem, the same as Maartje van Amersfoort. Where students can also choose theatre as part of their exams. He develops class material and guides the process of theatre making for the exam students.
He developed multiple educational workshops for theatre compagnies all over the country, such as The National Theatre in The Hague and International Theatre Amsterdam.
Because he likes to learn, he keeps himself busy by following workshops and trainings from theatre masters like Keith Johnstone on Improvisation; or several workshops on how to work with philosophy in the classroom, etc.
 
 
 


Maartje Van Amersfoort
 
 
Maartje van Amersfoort has been a theatre teacher for more than 30 years. She currently works in a secondary school in Haarlem, where she also supervises multiple plays by students. Besides she’s is an important staff member of Improbattle, a company very well known in the Netherlands. They use the power of theatre to work with troubled youth, police members, refugees and so on. They specialize on how to use theatre to mend social contacts (between police officers and the youth for example) or how to use theatre to enhance your chances in life.
Maartje van Amersfoort is head of the coaching department, training new teachers/trainers to work through the methods of Improbattle.
  
Throughout her life she has designed multiple educational curriculae for high school students, as well as for adults. She also trains adults in the art of improvisation and acting. Just like Tobias Specker, she also works for several theatre companies in the Netherlands, at the educational departments.
 
 
 
Viewpoints of the Mind
 
In this workshop you will be challenged to add multiple layers in your realistic acting. Through our own created method, you will get all the tools you need. It is guaranteed that after this workshop you are able to use these tools, both in improvisation as well as scripted scenes.
It will be an active workshop, with a theoretical foundation. As a participant you will be able to play yourself, testing the method and making it your own. Beside that you also become an observant, an active audience, seeing the other participants using the method. Here you learn how to reflect and analyze in order to help them and yourself forward.
The workshop is challenging for actors of all levels of skill; our created method allows you to apply it conform your own abilities in acting. First half will be practicing and understanding the method, whereas the second half will be filled with presentations; feedback on the spot and trying again.