THE ART OF PLAY
Presented by Theatre Artibus
FOR: Adults
EXPERIENCE: No experience needed
LOCATION: The Savoy Denver, 2700 Arapahoe Street Denver
COST: $30
DATES: March 31, 2025
TIMES: 6:30pm-9:00pm
INSTRUCTOR: Meghan Frank + Buba Basishvili
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Step into The Art of Play to rediscover the joy of games and play as tools for creativity, connection, and theatrical exploration. By letting go, laughing together, and embracing spontaneity, you’ll relax, widen your perspective, and uncover new ways to connect with others. Through physical games and exercises, explore how play reveals your tendencies—objectives, teamwork, adaptability—and sharpens improvisational presence while building resilience, collaboration, and lightness.
No experience is necessary—just come ready to move, laugh, and have fun!
If we don't get enough interest for this workshop, it may be canceled and full refunds will be given to those who signed up.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Meghan Frank
A theatre maker and educator who has worked globally (in Afghanistan, India, Canada, Egypt, Cuba, Azerbaijan and the Balkans). She specializes in original theatre making, physical comedy, mask, and acting for the stage. Meghan wears many hats as a performer, director, playwright, designer, educator, and collaborator. She founded Theatre Artibus with Buba in 2017, and has been the a primary creator for all original work co-created by the company.
From 2012-14, Meghan was a faculty member at Dell'Arte International School for Physical Theatre. In 2015, she received a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte (2012) and a BA in Theatre for Social Change from UMASS Amherst (2003). She has given lectures at the UN, Emory University, NYC on “Theatre in War Zones.”
Buba Basishvili
A theatre maker and performer from the Republic of Georgia living in the United States, Buba has worked in theatre, film, and as director and teacher in his hometown of Tbilisi and all across the globe. In his toolbox are many practical skills: original theatre creation, character, mime, mask, clown, dance, directing, choreography, vaudeville, cabaret, melodrama, tragedy, Commedia dell'Arte, bouffon. He loves the silly and serious combined.
He has his MFA in "Ensemble Based Physical Theatre" from Dell'Arte International in California, USA and performed, toured and taught with the Georgian State Pantomime Theatre for over 15 years. He was a director at Illiauni Theatre and University in Tbilisi. Buba received an MA in Mime Art from Shota Rusatveli State University of Theatre and Film, Tbilisi, Georgia.