Building on the ideas and intuitions that emerged in the process of working on Action Medea, the work Trinity – The Letter marks another step in Studio Kokyu development a performative structure that can be shown as a theatre piece while giving the doers freedom from theatre architecture and complex stage technology. Based solely on the skills and technique of doers, it offers them a tool to work on themselves.

In its day-to-day practice, Studio Kokyu uses Trinity – The Letter as precise group training. These premiere demonstrations of the Studio’s latest work are an opportunity to share it within a dramatic frame, presenting it as a full-fledged, even if formally simple, theatre piece.

Trinity – The Letter was developed as part of the Practising Action project. The first phase of the work spanned mid-February and the end of June 2024, involving an international constellation of performers: Julia Zhaglina, Rafaella Kavasi, Katarzyna Serafin, David Fonta and Hakan Kargidanoglu, guided and directed by Przemyslaw Blaszczak. In September 2024, the group was expanded to include Stefania Giammarino, Dominika Zachoszcz, Eirini Arvaniti, Luca Citarelli, David Llewellyn, Alena Ciepla, Iza Jem, Jacopo Storti, Eleftheria Konstantopoulou and Anna Bakhtina. The second phase of the project is scheduled to take place from September 2024 to June 2025.

Underpinned by an enquiry into precision of actions and personal technique, the work on Trinity – The Letter has been inspired by the third-century poem Hymn of the Pearl from the apocryphal Acts of Thomas. Inspired by the hymn’s story and message, the doers have developed physical and vocal action material. Their main focus was on the question of how an action such as Trinity – The Letter can work as a theatre piece, understood as an encounter/meeting, an event engaging the audience, while at the same time offering doers a tool to share technique with other doers and continuously improve themselves in action.

With its Practising Action project, Studio Kokyu wants to venture out to places where it can share its work with new audiences. This stems from their desire to leave the typical theatre setting and enter new spaces, urban and no-so-obvious. These premiere work demonstrations at the Grotowski Institute mark the beginning of this journey, and, importantly, offer an opportunity for an encounter/meeting which the artists deeply believe is the essence of theatre.