Searching for The Sacred Through Theater Performance with Matt Mitler

Welcome folks to another episode of La Befana’s Table.

Today Matt Mitler joins me in a conversation about searching for the sacred through the medium of theater.

Matt is an American actor who is also the founding director of Dzieci Theatre (the polish word for "children"). 

Integrating techniques garnered from such theatre masters as Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba and Peter Brook, ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines, and an ethic based securely in Humanistic Psychology, Dzieci aims to create a theatre that is as equally engaged with personal transformation as it is with public presentations.

In this episode, Matt and I talk about their work, the Dzieci theatre and their upcoming Passion production in celebration of the Holy Week. 

More of what we talked about: 

• 2:30 Inviting an audience member into the piece

• 8:22 Meeting the audience

• 14:10 The power of the audience

• 24:52 Dealing with difficult participants

• 35:59 Finding projects you can be married to for life

• 45:25 Working with different spiritual communities

A Passion performance schedule 2023:

• Palm Sunday, April 2nd at 10:30 AM (as part of the morning service)

  CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
  74 Park Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028

• Holy Tuesday, April 4th at 7:00 PM
  THE CENTER AT WEST PARK
  165 West 86th Street, NY, NY 10024

• Maundy Thursday/Passover, April 6th at 7:00 PM
  THE EPISCOPAL ACTOR’S GUILD
  1 East 29th Street, NY, NY 10016

• Good Friday, April 7th at 7:00 PM
  BOUGHTON PLACE
  150 Kisor Road, Highland, NY 12528

Whether Christian or Jew or Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Zen,
A Passion appeals to the human spirit in everyone and our essential longing for communion.

Please join us.

$20 donation
Doors open 15 minutes prior to the performance!

Notes On A Passion
A Commentary by Matt Mitler

More of their schedules!

Next Fall

MAKBET

Out West!

Stay tuned for the touring schedule

(We’re seeking contacts for LA & SF venues!)

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December 2023!

The Twenty-fifth Anniversary
of Dzieci’s Signature Creation

FOOLS MASS

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TDF shines a light on Dzieci, with this wonderful little video:

Meet the Theatre

If you have been touched in any way, shape or form by our work,
please consider making a donation.
Together, in communion, we will continue
to bring meaning into art, and art into meaning.

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Connect with Dzieci theatre: 

Dzieci workshops and performances are available for groups of all kinds, both secular and sacred.

• Dzieci’s Workshops: Dzieci Workshops

• Dzieci’s ministerial offerings: http://dziecitheatre.org/ministry-to-ministers/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dziecitheatre/

• Website: http://dziecitheatre.org/

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