Brexit Stage Left

14/01/2020

If you're involved in European playwriting in any way, please help out by filling in their survey on playwriting practices across Europe. More info here:

A Research Project Commissioned by Fabulamundi – Playwriting Europe Supported by the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

23/04/2019

Global Voices is a theatre project working with international playwrights to share new rehearsed readings. We are joining forces with Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival to present Global Indigenous Voices. Curated by Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet, the evening will feature excerpts from five...

26/03/2019

Why do contemporary European plays make up less than 1% of UK theatre productions?

Watch Dr. Geraldine Brodie (UCL) in conversation with an expert panel including Chris Campbell (Translator, Senior Editor Oberon Books, Former Literary Manager Royal Court), Paula Paz (Co-Founder and Associate Director, Cervantes Theatre), Anthony Simpson-Pike (Associate Director, The Gate) Simon Stokes (Recent Artistic Director, Theatre Royal Plymouth) and Amy Clare Tasker (Festival Co-Director, Voila! Europe Theatre Festival).

21/03/2019

How does the UK theatre landscape look to European playwrights?

Peter Boenisch (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) discusses with an expert panel including Claudia Di Giacomo (Fabulamundi), Kim Komljanec (Slovenian/UK Playwright/Dramaturge/Director), Sissi Liechtenstein (Agent - International Performing Rights Ltd) and Ulrike Syha (German Playwright/Translator)

11/03/2019

What is the future for European theatre in the UK and UK theatre in Europe after Brexit?

Watch Duska Radosavljevic (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) in conversation with an expert panel including Melanie Bono (Head of Programming North West Europe, Goethe-Institut London), Lyn Gardner (Theatre Critic), Tarek Iskander (Interim Director for Theatre, Arts Council England), Christoph Jankowski (Head of Culture of Creative Europe Desk UK – England, and Culture Advisor, UK) and Jonathan M**h (The Fence).

19/02/2019

🇪🇺 Missed our post show talk on 'Translating Cultures, Cultures of Translation: Dealing with Culturally Unspecific Plays'🇪🇺

Do plays ‘represent' their language/culture? Can a play operate outside its own language/culture so as to become more transcultural or culturally unspecific? And if so, is the translation of this kind of source less problematic than that of culturally-specific plays?

Catch up here: https://soundcloud.com/user-581016306/translating-cultures-cultures-of-translation-dealing-with-culturally-unspecific-plays

Featuring playwright Aleksa Okanovic with translators Chris Campbell, David Duchin and Jane House

Chaired by Margherita Laera

Playwright Aleksa Okanovic and theatre translators Chris Campbell, David Duchin and Jane House join Margherita Laera for a conversation on translating cultures for the stage. Do plays ‘represent' the

30/01/2019

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Want to find out more about the relationship between the playwright and the director in Europe differs from how it works in UK? 🇪🇺🇬🇧

How do European playwrights conceive of the role of the director when writing their plays? Does this shift when their plays are translated into English and into theatrical cultures where social realism dominates?

Listen to Benjamin Fowler in conversation with playwrights Beniamin Bukowski and Maria Milisavljević and directors Jude Christian and Abigail Graham here:

This post-show talk considers the role the director plays in new European playwriting. Director Jude Christian joins Benjamin Fowler for a conversation about postdramatic dramaturgies on the British stage, drawing on her experience of directing Trust, by the German playwright Falk Richter, at T

22/01/2019

🇪🇺 Missed our post show talk on 'The Role of the Translator: Translating 'Foreign' Performances Cultures? 🇪🇺

If the play was written for a non-naturalistic theatrical tradition, how can the translator create a text which evokes that non-British performance culture?

Catch up here: https://soundcloud.com/user-581016306/the-role-of-the-translator-translating-foreign-performance-cultures

Featuring playwright Gianina Cărbunariu with translators Natasha Fortescue Oxley and William Gregory. Chaired by Noah Birksted-Breen.

This panel considers the role of the translator as cultural mediator. In conversation with Noah Birksted-Breen, translators Natasha Oxley and William Gregory, and the author of Artists Talk will consi

11/01/2019

🇫🇮🇪🇺 Meet our final European playwright Finland's Saara Turunen 🇪🇺🇫🇮

Saara Turunen is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author, playwright, and director.

Her plays 'The Bunny Girl' and 'The Broken Heart Story' have garnered brilliant reviews and been translated into 13 languages and performed in several countries. She is known for her bold and direct style and much of her work examines the themes of art, identity and social norms. In addition to her work in theatre Turunen has authored two highly acclaimed novels, 'Love/Monster' (2015) and 'The Bystander' (2018). Her debut novel 'Love/Monster' won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize in 2015. Turunen was also granted with Finland prize in 2016, a high profile award given annually by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.