Theatre from the Field is an ongoing theatre-anthropology project designed to encourage researchers to engage their whole body in intellectual discovery. We host workshops and create performances that centre non-verbal knowledge and tap into the deep emotionality of ethnographic work.

In July 2025 we hosted a 4-day residential workshop in s’ Hertenbosch, The Netherlands, to convene an immersive theatre workshop for fourteen anthropologists. Partnering with Affect Theatre founders Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti, we trained in object theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, contact improvisation and visual storytelling. To read more about the project, click here.

Theatre from the Field is hosted by the EASA Creative Anthropologies Network, in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and SOAS, University of London. It has been funded by the European Association for Social Anthropologists and the Wenner Gren Foundation.