Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District | WestK Solo Fest: Creative Workshop with Chris Thorpe

Description

Your story is never just your story. Making solo work that moves between worlds
In this workshop for solo artists and theatre makers, Manchester-based writer and performer Chris Thorpe shares his practice and explores ways of creating solo performances that connect personal experience with broader societal questions.

Thorpe’s approach takes personal stories as entry points and builds outward – from individual cognition to collective storytelling to negotiated agreements. Creating pathways to examine power and understand how global forces shape everyday life, he develops performances that adapt and react to the specific circumstances of each place and audience on any given day.

This workshop draws on these principles. Exploring Thorpe’s choreography of attention, participants experiment with switching perspectives between the intimate and the systemic, creating resonance between the “global” and the “local”, and making distant political worlds accessible through everyday experience. 

The workshop combines a two-day intensive group session and one-on-one session, allowing participants to explore core techniques together and receive personalised guidance on their own work.

The workshop is open to theatre practitioners working with personal material who wish to develop their solo work and expand their practice beyond the individual.

Group size: Max 15 participants

To apply, please register before 12 December 2025 (Friday). Late submissions will not be considered.

Application results will be announced on or before 19 December 2025 via email. Successful applicants will also receive details regarding methods of payment.

Group workshop:

13 and 14 January 2026 (Tuesday and Wednesday)

10am to 6pm

One-on-one session (1 session per person):

In the period of 15–17 January 2026 (Thursday to Saturday)

The duration and schedule are to be arranged upon request.