Rehearsing National Identities through the Framework of Transcultural Theatre

Abstract

This article discusses the practical application of the concepts of repetition and gesture from Günther Heeg’s Transcultural Theater in the creative process of the devised theatre project LAND, staged by the author in 2021. It aims to reflect on the strategies used during the artistic practice through the lenses of both actual experience and retrospective critical-theoretical analysis. Here, the question of national identity is explored in one exercise led during the rehearsal process. In the exercise, each participant delved into their own past to retrieve national myths and stories, which would be shared between the group and transformed into a storytelling scene.