Fabulamundi – Call for Associate Researcher

Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as Associate Researcher for our academic research project ‘Fabulamundi Workbook: Mapping Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Practices in Europe’, led by Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

This is a highly flexible part-time role which would suit a recently appointed Lecturer, post-doc, or PhD student based at any higher education institution in the EU, who could freely choose to spend their paid research time on this project. The position starts in June 2019 and ends in July 2020. The Associate Researcher will receive a small honorarium.

The Mousson d’hiver, the festival dedicated to theater for young people from high school and university, will take place in the Grand Est county between 25-29 March 2019.

Helena Tornero‘s text  F/M (Devil is alive and well), which was translated from Spanish last year thanks to Fabulamundi, will be presented for the first time in France. For the occasion, the author will lead a writing workshop with 25 high school students.

The Mousson d’hiver is also thrilled to welcome Davide Carnevali who will be conducting a translation residency in partnership with the University of Lorraine.

Last but not least, the texts of German authors Kevin Rittberger, Katja Brunner, Jakob Nolte and French author Nathalie Fillion have been selected to be part of a special composition named Examens, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut in Nancy. The project will be presented on the 14th of March during the Entretiens franco-allemands and then during the Mousson d’hiver.

On 28th November, the mise en voix of Qui croire by French author Guillaume Poix takes place at Théâtre Ouvert.

Mise en voix by Guillaume Poix
with Sophie Engel
sound creation by Guillaume Vesin
lights and set design by Sébastien Marc

Like it or not, religion innervates our daily life. It may be decided to disdain the stakes, whatever they are, in the name of the pride inspired by French secularism. We can also feel the deep dysfunctions it causes and the schizophrenia it calls us: we still live according to a ritualized calendar by Christian holidays – while demanding, for some, complete neutrality vis-à-vis religions. We are caught between intransigence and tradition, rigor and free will. We are rightly proud that our state is secular, but we are confusing the state and society. Can we really rid our lives of religion?
We have inherited the scriptures, we doubt their sacredness. We receive them with the same curiosity as a literary work; yet, these texts carry something powerfully prescriptive. What principles can guide behavior, be it atheist, anticlerical, or religious? What are the deep contradictions that inhabit us about this entity named God? How can our existence be, without our being fully aware of it, determined by values ​​internalized since childhood?
Representing religion in the theater inevitably leads to questions of faith and credulity. What leads us to believe, according to what criteria do we trust one or the other of the known truths? We are committed to building a theatrical protocol – in sound, play, light and writing – that plays absolutely the game of fiction without hiding anything from our will to believe: when we believe in fiction, there is there something in us that decides to believe?

On 27th August, in the frame of Mousson d’ètè, will be presented the stage presentation of the text “The Passage” by the Spanish author Josep Maria Miró.

The Passage (La traversée)
Text by Josep Maria Miró 
Translated by Laurent Gallardo
Directed by Laurent Vacher
With Éric Berger, Didier Manuel, Charlie Nelson and Julie Pilod

A young girl dies in the arms of Sister Cecília, who finds her among some brambles after being brutally assaulted. This event will set of all the nun’s alarms regarding the functioning of the humanitarian project in the settlement where she is working, in an area devastated by violence and the numerous needs for aid to children and refugees. The episode will be the starting point of an intense emotional journey in relation to her ethical principles and her faith.
The Passage is the journey that takes Sister Cecília from the point of humanitarian conflict to cross the frontier with the first world, the origin of aid and, possibly, the source of the problems.
This play received the Frederic Roda Prize in 2015.

On the 26th August, in the frame of Mousson d’ètè Festival, will be presented the stage presentation of the text “Sorry we didn’t die at the sea” by the Italian author Emanuele Aldrovandi.

Excusez-nous si nous ne sommes pas morts en mer
Text by Emanuele Aldrovandi
Translated by Federica Martucci and Olivier Favier
Directed by Ivica Buljan
With Alain Fromager, Charlie Nelson, Didier Manuel and Johanna Nizard

In a not-too-distant future, Europe has become a continent of emigrants. European citizens, in a quest to find better jobs and a better future, try to reach the “richer” countries, but they have to do so illegally because those countries have since closed their borders. Among many ways of migrating illegally, one of the most widely used is the shipping container: the illegal immigrants come on board and pay a thousand dollars on departure and a thousand dollars on arrival, without knowing where they’ll be offloaded. The characters in this dystopian story are four, and they have no names. They’re identified solely by their physical traits: Robust, Beauty, Tall are the three migrants and Soft is the owner of the container. The play is divided in four parts. The first one takes place at the harbour, before the journey, the second one inside the container, the third one in the middle of the sea after the shipwreck of the boat they were traveling on and the fourth is a dreamlike epilogue – or perhaps a hallucination: the arrival of whales. As Davide Carnevali writes in the preface to the Italian version published by CUE press, the play’s strength is that it doesn’t act as “a parasite to reality, exploiting the problem of immigration and its media coverage. On the contrary, it’s a play that wants to say something that the media doesn’t regarding this problem; to show an image of this reality that isn’t generally shown; to clearly illustrate its dynamics and its motives. This is how theater reaffirms its meaning, a profound one: that of reopening the dialogue with society, where the media often close it.”

On 25th August, in the frame of Mousson d’ètè, will be presented the text Die Mountainbiker, by the Austrian author Volker Schmidt.

Die Mountainbiker
Text by Volker Schmidt
Translated by Nicolas Gessner
Directed by Julia Vidit
With Éric Berger, Thomas Blanchard, Marie-Sohna Condé, Johanna Nizard, Louise Orry-Diquiéro, Alexiane Torrés and Souleymane Sylla

Where nature meets the city…
Anna, a successful  interior designer,  has everything one could wish to have:
a family, material prosperity, physical health. But when she realizes that she reached the edge her life seems to her like a prison.
Anna starts to do strange things to destroy her beautiful life methododically. Maybe because of the death of her son she has never overcome? When she starts an affaire with Thomas, the boyfriend of her daughter, the situation escalates. Catasthrophies happen within the idyll of her world, it’s a chainreaction between Anna and her sourrounding.
„Mountainbiker“ is a drama about todays „Burgoisie“.

On 24th August, in the frame of Mousson d’ètè, will be presented the stage presentation of the text “Nico – Sphinx of ice” by the German author Werner Fritsch.

NICO – SPHINX AUS EIS (NICO – SPHINX OF ICE)
Text by Werner Fritsch
Translated by Pascal Paul-Harang
Directed by Michel Didym
Director assistant Yves Storper
with Odja Llorca
music by Philippe Thibault and Vassia Zagar

Nico, singer with the Velvet Underground, 60s and 70s icon, and a key figure still for the punk and gothic movements. Andy Warhol called her his moon goddess, she called herself Fata Morgana. In this monologue, Werner Fritsch reflects on her life and work.

From 23-29 August La Mousson d’été festival will take place and many texts by Fabulamundi authors will be staged: La traversée by Catalan author Josep Maria Miró I Coromina, Excusez-nous si nous ne sommes pas morts en mer by Italian author Emanuele Aldrovandi, Les tout-terrain by Austrian author Volker Schmidt and Nico-Sphinx de glace by German author Werner Fritsch. There will be a five-day workshop with 15 trainees led by Italian playwright Davide Carnevali. Moreover, twinned UK author Ella Hickson will be present with her text L’autrice.

For more information visit the official website of the Festival www.meec.org

In the frame of ZOOM à Theatre Ouvert in Paris, two Fabulamundi authors, Pier Lorenzo Pisano from Italy and Maxi Obexer from Austria will be host.

On 23-24 May there will be the opening of Per il tuo bene by Pier Lorenzo Pisano, translated by Federica Martucci, directed by Tommy Milliot and with Matthias Hejnar, Caroline Menon-Bertheux, Miglen Mirtchev, Adrien Serre, Agnès Sourdillon.

On 26 May , there will be the opening of Illegale Helpers by Maxi Obexer, with the translation of Charlotte Bomy et Katharina Stalder, the artistic and dramatic collaboration of Lars Studer, directed by Marceau Deschamps-Ségura and with Anissa Daaou, Eva Chico, Marceau Deschamps-Ségura, Marion Feugère, Lucie Grunstein, Alexiane Torres.

The Italian author Pier Lorenzo Pisano will be in Paris from 15th to 24th of May for an artistic residence about his text “Per il tuo bene”. The text will be presented at Theatre Ouvert as a stage presentation.

FOR YOUR OWN GOOD
A brother comes back home and his arrival triggers family mechanisms that have always been jammed, expounded through dialogues in the guts and humour that only the family know.
Mother, father, grandparent, uncle, are all part of a criminal conspiracy based on the blackmail. The blackmail of love.
What family really is?
How does it relate to strangers?
And above all, can you survive it?

At Theatre Ouvert (Paris) on November 24th there will be the stage presentation of “Avions en papier” by the Romanian authors Elise Wilk.

The text is translated by Fanny Chartres and Alexandra Lazarescou, directed by Rémi Billardon, with Jules Bodin,  Lula Cotton Frapier, Yuming Hey, Marion Lambert, François Praud, Lou Valentini.

PAPER AIRPLANES
Lena has an airplane tatooed on her neck. She dreams of being as rich as Rihanna and of buying the 10-floor apartment bock she lives in with her sister, because her mother is working in Italy. Miki dreams about conquering the world, like the actor from the poster abive his bed. But in reality, things are different: at school he is bullied by Alex and Bobo, at home his uncle strictly oversees his food ratio. On the roof of the apartment block, where he meets Lena sometimes, life seems easier. On the last page of her biology workbook, Laura writes down the names of every boy she kissed. Andra counts the calories in her meals and is in love with the English teacher. On the last day of school, a tragedy happens that no one anticipated.

From 24 to 30 August 2017 the 23rd edition of La Mousson d’Eté will take place at the Abbaye des Prémontrés de Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine.
For more information about the program, click here.

La Mousson d’étè 2017 is participating in “Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe – Beyond Borders?” with the following activities:
– from August 24th to August 30th from 9.30 to 12.30:  Workshop with Rebekka Kricheldorf (DE) in the frame of L’Université d’été européenne de la Mousson d’Eté
– August 24th at 20.45: radio reading of “Mademoiselle Agnès” by Rebekka Kricheldorf (DE) translation by Frank Weigand e Leyla-Claire Rabih, director Baptiste Guiton, with Quentin Baillot, Camille Garcia, Grégoire Lagrange, Maud Le Grévellec, Marie Levy, Glenn Marausse, Julien Masson and Johanna Nizard
– August 25th at 14.00: staged reading of “Canicule (évangile apocryphe d’une famille, d’un pays)” by Lola Blasco (ES), translation by Clarice Plasteing, director Laurent Vacher, with Quentin Baillot, Christophe Brault, Camille Garcia, Glenn Marausse, Bruno Ricci and Ariane von Berendt, music Vassia Zagar
– August 24th at 18.00: staged reading of “Poings” by Pauline Peyrade (FR), director Véronique Bellegarde, with Maud Le Grévellec, Julien Masson and Julie Pilod, music Philippe Thibault
– August 26th at 16.00: round table “Writing plays today: from learning to broadcasting”, with Jean-Pierre Ryngaert, Lola Blasco, Pauline Peyrade, Helena Tornero and María Velasco
– August 27th at 22:30: les impromptus de la nuit, with Joseph Danan e Helena Tornero
– August 28th at 14.00: staged reading of “Délivre-toi de mes désirs” by María Velasco (ES), traslation by David Ferré, director Helena Tornero, with Grégoire Lagrange, Maud Le Grévellec, Catherine Matisse, Nelson-Rafaell Madel, Glenn Marausse, Julien Masson, Charlie Nelson and Johanna Nizard

At Théâtre Ouvert from 17th to 25th of November will be F.T.O#3 festival.
For Fabulamundi will be two stage presentations:
– On 17th of November “Des guerriers dans le crâne” written by Claudius Lünstedt. The text was translated by  Laurent Muhleisen and Frank Weigand, directed by Grégoire Strecker, with Dominique Frot, Paul-Adrien Bertrand and Philippe Fretun.
– On 22nd of November “LULLABY, tragédie aérobique” written by Industria Indipendente (Erika Z. Galli and Martina Ruggeri). The text was translated by Federica Martucci, directed by Benoît Bradel, with Raoul Fernandez, Annie Mercier, Véronique Nordey, Emilien Tessier.

August 23rd – 29th 2016: Pont-à-Mousson

The program:

23rd August, h19: Pour ainsi dire by Nathalie Fillion
25th August, h18: Bruits d’eaux by Marco Martinelli
25th August, h22.30: Les impromptus by Nathalie Fillion
27th August, h20.45: Et le ciel est par terre by Guillaume Poix
27th August, h22.30: Les impromptus by Frédéric Sonntag and Rebekka Kricheldorf
28th August, h22.30: concert by Gérard Watkins

For more information visit www.meec.org

In November Theatre Ouvert will invite two authors for Fabulamundi’s activities.
The authors will be Mercè Sarrias from Spain with In defense of the Albino Mosquitoes (A la défense des moustiques albinos), and Dirk Laucke from Germany with Pas pour tout le monde.
17th November 2015 | 20.30 | Reading In defense of the Albino Mosquitoes by Mercè Sarrias, translated by Philippe Soldevila, directed by Julie Deliquet, with five actors of In Vitro Group.
20th November 2015 | 20.30 | Reading Pas pour tout le monde by Dirk Laucke, translated by Laurent Muhleisen in collaboration with Jakob Schumann, directed by Simon Delétang, with Julien Allouf, Pierre Baux, Deborah Marique, Victoria Quesnel.

The next edition of La Mousson d’Eté will continue to assert its European dimension and will take place from 21 to 27 August 2015 to found at the source, talent, confirmed or promising international authors always very impactful.
La Mousson d’étè 2015 is participating in “Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe – Crossing generations” with the following activities:
– from August 21st to August 27th   from  9.30 to 12.30:  Workshop with Rebekka Kricheldorf (DE) in the frame of L’Université d’été européenne de la Mousson d’Eté
– August 22nd at 14.30: staged reading of “Lost word” by Davide Carnevali (IT) translation by Caroline Michel, director Véronique Bellegarde, with David Ayala, Marie Desgranges, Charlie Nelson, Stéphane Varupenne and Gérard Watkins
– August 23rd at 20.45: staged reading of “Les joueurs” by Pau Miro (ES), translation by Clarice Plasteig, director Albert Arribas, with David Ayala, Quentin Baillot, Charlie Nelson et Stéphane Varupenne
– August 24th h 14.00: staged reading of “Mameloschn” by Marianna Salzmann (DE), translation by Charlotte Bomy (programme Transfert théâtral 2014), director Laurent Vacher, with Anne Benoît, Louise Dupuis and Julie Pilod
– August 24th h 18.00: staged reading of “Viva l’Italia” by Roberto Scarpetti (IT), translation by Olivier Favier, director Véronique Bellegarde, with Quentin Baillot, Marie Desgranges, Benoît Giros, Alexandre Pallu and Tom Politano, music Philippe Thibault