Focuses on the continuous artistic and technical development of ASHTAR’s team and infuses it with new experiences, talents and diverse new experiments in theatre domains.

Since its establishment, ASHTAR, was keen to develop the various theatre skills alongside the theatre-training program. So, it held courses in lighting, set, make-up and costume design. This has helped ASHTAR to found a technical team from among its students qualified to undertake seriously and professionally artistic issues in their own hands and who would pursue their development steadily.

This has encouraged it to bring foreign professionals and experts who have greatly influenced the know how of ASHTAR’s team on all levels. Alongside each summer production with the theatre students, ASHTAR held courses that would cover various theatre skills. These courses extended between six and eight weeks per year over a period of three to four years, enriching the technical team with experience and practical knowledge that became evident in their work over the past ten years. These courses were: four in theatre lighting design with Philippe Andrieux of France; four in make-up design with Heike Bechtold, Diane Rietsch of Switzerland and Ines Zierenner of Germany; two in costume design with Jackie Lubeck of US/Palestine; and one in set design with Kay Fretwurst of Germany.

On the level of developing the ASHTAR acting team, its tools and improving its skills, ASHTAR initiated training workshops, which provided the team with new knowledge and outstanding experiences drawn from new world-theatre experiments. Workshops were in: Voice Training with Shauna Kanter of US/UK; Martial Art with Oleg Kezilof of Canada; Character Building with John Martin of Britain; Theatre of the Oppressed methods with Mojisola Adabayo of Britain; Modern Dance Theatre techniques with Raja’ Ben Ammar of Tunisia.