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Apply for Boslab 2024

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION FOR BOSLAB THEATER FESTIVAL 2024

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Boslab is a festival for aspiring theater makers/performing artists such as directors, choreographers, performers, dancers, mimers, storytellers and collectives. You already have some experience in creating a performance, but you are only active in the field for a maximum of six years.

You want to create a new performance or you have an existing play that you want to develop further, because there is still a clear research question. Boslab is looking for theater makers who explicitly relate to working on and with the location, in our case the forest (field, tree, pond, etc.)

We invite theater makers of all different backgrounds to apply.

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WHAT DO WE OFFER?

We want to create a great festival with you and help where we can with artistic guidance, technology, production and promotion.

You will be paid Fair Practice for rehearsals and the performance period and there is a small material budget. If necessary, we can assist you to apply for a fund.

You play in front of an audience for a total of 10 days, there is a closed general and a number of group rehearsals. The exact dates of Boslab 2024 are not yet known, but the festival will take place in the summer.

WHAT IS THE PROCEDURE?

Email your application of a maximum of 4 A4 pages (excluding images and CVs) to: Boslab@bostheater.nl before November 13, 2023.

Below are some questions that you can use to write your own story. We make an initial selection based on the applications. If you proceed to the second selection round, you will receive an invitation for an interview in the Bostheater.

WHAT ARE WE CURIOUS ABOUT?

  1. What kind of theater maker are you?
  2. What kind of performance do you want to make?
  3. What is your theme, your question, your story?
  4. Who and what are your sources?
  5. How do your ideas relate to form, style, music/sound?
  6. Which disciplines do you want to work in and why?
  7. Why does this work need to be made? Why at Boslab?
  8. What kind of location are you looking for? What is the role/function of the location?
  9. With whom and how do you want to work? What is everyone’s role in the project?
  10. Can you already sketch an example of what the audience will see?
  11. What role does this project play in your artistic development?
  12. What is the role of the audience in your performance?
  13. How do you want to communicate with the audience inside and outside the performance?
  14. A Boslab performance lasts half an hour. Do you already have an idea about the dramatic tension?

Appendices to the application

  • A concise resume of all employees.
  • Images and/or links to previous work.
  • If known: text, music and images.
  • Inspiration material
  • Global budget

A FEW TIPS IN ADVANCE

  • At a location in the forest, technology, light and sound can only be used to a very limited extent.
  • Boslab is often in the middle of summer when it doesn’t get dark until 11 p.m., so a performance must also be able to take place in daylight and at dusk.
  • A performance must be rain, heat and wind resistant.
We look forward to reading your plan!
Questions in advance? Send us an email: boslab@bostheater.nl or call our office on 0031 (0)20 – 6700 250, choose option 3 and ask for Ingejan Ligthart Schenk.