Creative Anthropologies Network | Theatre

 

Theatre from the Field is an ongoing theatre-anthropology project designed to encourage researchers to engage their whole body in intellectual discovery. We host workshops and create performances that centre non-verbal knowledge and tap into the deep emotionality of ethnographic work.

In July 2025 we hosted a 4-day residential workshop in s’ Hertenbosch, The Netherlands, to convene an immersive theatre workshop for fourteen anthropologists. Partnering with Affect Theatre founders Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti, we trained in object theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, contact improvisation and visual storytelling, as you can see examples of in the video below.

The workshop cultivated a new cohort of theatre-worker anthropologists who will create (auto)ethnographically informed theatrical interventions, debuting at the EASA bi-annual conference in Poznan in July 2026.

If you’d like to get involved with Theatre from the Field, please reach out to us.