Creating a New Poor Theatre

Name: Creating a New Poor Theatre
Start: 2026-06-21T14:00:00+1000
End: 2026-06-21T16:00:00+1000
Location: Next Wave

Sun, 21 Jun, 2pm - 4pm AEST

Next Wave

Brunswick VIC, Australia

Next Wave

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Join us for a workshop on Creating a New Poor Theatre with movement and physical theatre practitioner Lily Fish.

In a culture increasing tangled with the virtual world, a New Poor Theatre invites creators to step away from technology, to simplify, to return to the body and the empty playing space. To make work that inspires and invigorates audience imagination.

In this workshop participants will learn mime and movement technique from the Lecoq pedagogy with a focus on creating vivid imagined environments.

'Poor Theatre' is a performance style developed by Polish director Jerzy Grotowski in the 1960s that strips away theatrical excesses—such as elaborate sets, costumes, and lighting—to focus entirely on the actor's craft.

About Lily Fish

Lily Fish is an award winning performer, maker, director and teaching artist. They are a founding member of PO PO MO CO, Brunswick East Entertainment Festival, and The Wholesome Hour. Their play Yarn is published through PlayLab.

Lily is currently featuring in Rakali, showing at Next Wave from 3 – 14 June.

About Next Wave

Next Wave is a leading not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting early-career artists working across multiple art forms. Next Wave plays a defining role in the Australian arts landscape by empowering and advocating for early-career and experimental artistic practice in Australia.

This event is part of Next Wave's ALL School programming. ALL School is an artist-led learning program designed to facilitate knowledge exchange.

Photo: Kate Longley

Next Wave
270 Sydney Road, Bulleke-bek (Brunswick)
nextwave.org.au

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Brunswick Mechanics Institute is a step-free venue with accessible bathrooms.

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Through mentorships, creative developments, public programs, events, live performances and partnerships, Next Wave creates spaces for gathering and exchange, ambition and experimentation, and meaningful community connections.

Established in 1984 as a biennial Festival, Next Wave now runs a year-long program from our home at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, in Naarm/Melbourne. As Next Wave continues to evolve in response to the changing nature of artist and sector needs, its commitment to investing in and nurturing artists at the most critical stage of their career remains constant. Next Wave’s program enables artists and audiences to test ideas and push boundaries that embrace new perspectives, challenge our thinking and platform the next generation of cultural leaders.

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