Italian author Pier Lorenzo Pisano will be one of the European playwrights involved in the Royal Court summer residency 2019 which has a special focus on Europe this year. The residency, a three-week programme from June 30th to July 20th, will be the chance for the writers to attend workshops, see and discuss theatre and develop a new play during their time in London.

For the second year, PAV renews its collaboration with Primavera dei Teatri Festival and the project Europe Connection, bringing three European authors to the South of Italy for working together with local companies. This year the authors selected are: Maxi Obexer with The Gostship, Victoria Szpunberg with The Speaking Machine and Esteve Soler with Against Freedom. This edition of Primavera dei Teatri will also host another Fabulamundi production, “Tout Entiere” by French author Guillaume Poix presented by the Italian company Bartolini/Baronio.

The National Theatre of Rome will run a special focus on the French author Gérard Watkins, hosting two different shows:

• from 20-30 May, the production of Je ne me souviens plus tres bien  directed by Watkins and with Gianluigi Fogacci, Federica Rosellini and Carlo Valli.
• And from May 28th to June 2nd, Scenes of domestic violence with the direction of Elena Serra and the company Teatro di Dioniso.
• In the frame of this project,  there will also be the presentation of the book curated by the publishing house CUEPress and containing these two texts translated in Italian by Monica Capuani.

On April 23rd in Rome French author Gerard Watkins will start the rehearsals of his Je ne me souviens plus tres bien, in collaboration with Italian coreographer and artist Silvia Rampelli. The show, a co-production of Teatro di Roma and Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe, will be on stage from 20-30 May at Teatro India. The project is part of a wider focus on Watkins which includes also his other text, Scenes of domestic violence, which will be presented by Teatro di Dioniso from May 28th to June 2nd.

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.

On March Gli Sposi by French author David Lescot directed by and with the Italian duo Frosini/Timpano will be touring all over Italy with several dates. On March 9 at Teatro Alice Zeppilli in Pieve di Cento, on March 15 at Teatro Popolare d’Arte in Lastra a Signa, on March 16 at Teatro Fulvio in Guglionesi. From 17-18 March Gli Sposi will be at Teatro del Loto in Ferrazzano, and from 21-23 March at Teatro della Tosse in Genova.

On February 6th, Teatro delle Albe will organize Avventure per nuovi mondi, a focus dedicated to the contemporary dramaturgy at Teatro Rasi in Ravenna, with readings of three Fabulamundi texts: Against progress and Against democracy by Spanish playwright Esteve Soler; The Lulu Projekt by French Magali Mougel and Fighters in Aspic by German Claudius Lünstedt.

In collaboration with Teatro di Roma, Silvia Rampelli will lead a workshop with elderly people, based on the text Akvabely by Czech author David Drabek.

AKVABELY / AQUABELLES
Alfréd Radok Award for the best original play of 2003.
A view of the contemporary generation of thirty-somethings. Three university friends conceive a secret hobby: they meet at a hidden reservoir and ”dance“ in the water.
Their furry legs are vibrating in the rhythm of music above the surface, and they experience the moment of harmony and coordination that these thirty-something adults do not experience on the ground. With party picnics after training, they just mask the cracks in their relationships.

After school their paths had diverged. Kajetán had taken the post of TV moderator and became a true celebrity. He oscillate between the models’ arms and the arms of his English teacher.
Petr stayed at the university as a lecturer and continued his stubborn struggle against consumerism. He pedantically watches his wife and son in front of the traps of civilization and exposes Kajetán to betrayal of ideals.

However, the two friends are caught off guard by Filip. He decides to stay in the reservoir forever, returning to an existence as a prehistoric water element. He feels like a beast, webs grow between his fingers. Gradually, he closes himself to the world until all is quiet.
Things take off – Petr leaves his wife, Kajetán, influenced by the loss of his friend, causes a brawl in the TV studio. Over a few seconds their certainty has crumbled to dust. In the final scene on the shore of the lake, Peter and Kajetán carry a wooden chest on their shoulders. The dark suits are open, stones fly away from their heels. They slip Philip into the waters of the lake. Peter saves insects from the surface, and Kajetán opens a “shop” with sticks, mud and leaves. At the end, two orphaned “aqua-belles” dance for their lost friend.

In spite of all its gags and humorous situations, the play is permeated with the nostalgia of a generation and in places even a frosty surreal quality. In the 2004/2005 season, the leading Czech stage director, Vladimir Morávek, staged the Aquabelles. The play won the 2003 Alfred Radok Award and later the Best Czech Play of the Year (2005).

On the 13th September, in the frame of Short Theatre Festival, will be presented the outcome of the residency of the Romanian author Bogdan Georgescu: HIC SUNT LEONESSE.

HIC SUNT LEONESSE – Ambra Angiolini, Raffaella Carrà, Amanda Lear, Iva Zanicchi, Heather Parisi – the legendary figures of the Italian television in the 90’s. Hic sunt Leonesse is an Active Art queer feminist performance. During the 90’s, in Romania, the most watched foreign TV channels were the Italian ones. Together with a group of Romanian women living in Italy, we’ll create a biographical retrospective on the imagined Italy, as it was delivered through TV shows by the feminine icons of that time and the realities discovered once their dreamed new life started in the peninsula. We will explore perspectives regarding women, macho-ism, queerness, work, depression etc. influenced by Italian television.

On the 12th September, in the frame of Short Theatre Festival, will be presented the outcome of the residency of the Romanian author Mihaela Michailov.

The emotional landscape of migration has, in the recent years, an impactful feminin face. The economics of affection center on new points of empathic departure and arrival. Who are the blurring ” “mothers of migration” and how they position themselves on the dominant political map of survival? Is their voice strong enough? How can we give them a space of visibility, challenging the critical conditions of work in a violent market of peripherical lives? What are the new maps of emotional work?

From 11th to 15th September, in the frame of Short Theatre Festival, the Italian company Vico Quarto Mazzini will presented a sound installation based on the text Paper Planes by the Romanian author Elise Wilk.

LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE

idea, design and realisation VicoQuartoMazzini
text in audio taken from Paper Planes by Elise Wilk
translated by Roberto Merlo
performing voices Michele Altamura, Simonetta Damato, Gabriele Paolocà
sound Alessandro De Rocco
photo Valerio Polici
registered at REH studio – MAT Terlizzi (Ba)

We live in a violent world and we learn this at an early age. To grow up, enter into the world of adults, means coming to terms with that violence and deciding which side of it you are on.  LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE is an immersive experience, an installation where visual and sonic elements come together out of an infantile and adolescent universe. A game room, recalling some childhood place, where an element of sound insinuates itself, a recording that tells the story of Miki, an adolescent bullied by his peers who, to get away from it all, decides to carry out an extreme gesture. The spectator hears this drama as if it were a fairy tale told to children, still living in a world of games, like a premonition, like an echo aimed at the deepest roots of one’s first encounter with violence. The narrated story comes from Paper Planes by Romanian author Elise Wilk, one of the texts chosen by Fabulamundi- Playwriting Europe for the support and promotion of contemporary dramaturgy in Europe.

LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE is one of the winning projects of the production announcement promoted by PAV, Short Theatre and Teatro i in the context of Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe.

In the frame of Short Theatre festival, on 6 and 7 September António e Cleópatra by the first Fabulamundi’s Portuguese twinned author, Tiago Rodrigues, will be on stage.

If we say one of the names, the other follows it. Our memory cannot evoke one without the other. Plutarch wrote that, from them on, love became the ability to see the world through the sensibility of someone else’s soul. They mixed love and politics and came up with a politics of love. They are a historical love story. They are a romance based on real events often romanticized about. Shakespeare built them a verbal monument that turned into the truest of truths what never happened to them. In Mankiewicz’s film that led 20th Century Fox to bankruptcy, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were the celluloid and real couple they never –and always– were.
In this show written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz are the here -and- now duo of what they were there-and-then. They are and are not Antony and Cleopatra. They are Antony seeing the world through Cleopatra’s eyes. And vice-versa. Always vice-versa. Vice-versa as a rule of love. Vice-versa as a rule of theatre. This show is seeing the world vicariously, through the sensibility of the souls of Antony and Cleopatra.

Three texts of Fabulamundi authors have been chosen by three different Italian companies in the frame of the Festival “Primavera dei teatri”. The French author Alexandra Badea with her text “Extremophile”, the Polish author Tomasz Man with his text “111” and the Czech author Roman Sikora with “Confession of a masochist” went in Castrovillari for artistic residences. The result will be presented, as light productions, during the Festival from 30th May to 3rd June.

30th May
111 by Tomasz Man
Stage presentation by the company Zahir
Translation by Francesco Annicchiarico
Directed by Emilia Brandi

31st May
Confession of a masochist by Roman Sikora
Stage presentation by the company Rossosimona
Translation by Eleonora Bentivogli
Directed by Francesco Aiello

1st June
Extremophile by Alexandra Badea
Stage presentation by the company Nastro di Moebius
Translation by Rossana Jemma
Directed by Saverio Tavano

The Spanish author Helena Tornero will be at Teatro i (Milano) from the 17th to the 23th April.
The author will be involved in a workshop with students, an artistic residence and will be attend the stage presentation of her text “Fascinacion”.

Fascination
Fascination (Latin) 1. f. Delusion or hallucination. 2. f. Irresistible attraction.
They work all day long. A stressful, committed, misunderstood job. But three nights a week they meet there and dance. Cha-cha-cha. Rumba. Waltz. Dance classes for all. Paid for by the company. Pasodoble. Bolero. Salsa. Because the company loves them. The company is like a big family. A big family united by the same idea. And families will do anything to stay united. Fox-trot. Tango. Nothing can alter the family harmony. Swing. Nothing. One, two, three, Mambo.
Fascinación is a text that is read with the rhythms and movements of bodies that dance. That try to dance, despite their minds, fears and prejudices. Because the body does not deceive. The mind does, however, and a great deal. Ideas are barriers, walls, frontiers. The body, however, always goes one step further. The body moves. The body dances. The gesture always ends up revealing those stories that the mind tries so hard to hide.

The text “Lingua Madre Mameloschn” by the German author Sasha Marianna Salzmann will be presented at Teatro Stabile di Torino from the 6th to the 11th February.

Lingua Madre Mameloschn / Muttersprache Mameloschn (Mother Tongue Mameloschn)
by Sasha Marianna Salzmann
directed by Paola Rota
translated by Alessandra Griffoni
with Elena Callegari, Francesca Cutolo, Maria Roveran
costum designer Ursula Patzak
The italian version of the text is published by CuePress

The text “How long is now?” written and directed by the Italian author Roberto Scarpetti will be presentend at Teatro Tor Bella Monaca (Rome) on 11th December, at Teatro Artemisio (Velletri) on 12th December, at Teatro Comunale di Casperia on 16th December, at Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo (Rome) on 18th and 19th December and at Teatro India (Rome) on 20th December 2017.

with 
Antonietta Bello, Aglaia Mora, Giuseppe Sartori, Matteo Vignati
assistant director and scenography Elisabetta Carosio

Francesca Garolla will be led a workshop about the text Medeea or About domestic happiness by the Romanian author Roxana Marian.
The workshop is realized in collaboration with the philosophy department of the University of Milan.
The workshop will be involved students of the theoretical philosophy course in several events from the 16th November, and it will end on December 20 with an open lesson at Teatro i / Milan.

From 26 to 28 June 2017 all the partners of the project will be in Rome for the first partner meeting after winning the Creative Europe Call 2017-2020 as large scale cooperation project.

The partners of Fabulamundi are 10 in 15 European countries: in Italy, PAV – project coordinator -, AREA06/ Short Theatre Festival, Teatro i; in France ,La Mousson d’été and Théâtre Ouvert; in Germany, Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin; in Spain, Sala Beckett – Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia; in Romania, Teatrul National Targu-Mures and Teatrul Odeon; in Austria, Wiener Wortstaetten; in Belgium, Culture Action Europe; in Poland, Teatr Dramatyczny m.st. Warszawy; in UK, Creative Skillset and Performing Arts Network and Development Agency – PANDA; in Czech Republic, Theatre Letì.

Short Theatre 11 – keep the village alive
Rome, 7 – 18 September 2016

Pablo Gisbert | El Conde de Torrefiel – La posibilidad que desaparece frente al paisaje
8^th September (h 20.15)

Industria Indipendente | Lullaby
9^th September (h 18.30) | stage presentation – first Italian presentation of the text

Alessandra Di Lernia | Attraverso un inverno
10^th September (h 18.30) |  stage presentation  – first Italian presentation of the text
with Costanza Cosi, Alessandra Di Lernia, Gabriele Linari, Sofya Yuneeva

Sasha Marianna Salzmann | Lingua madre Mameloschn
13^th September ( h19.00)  – national premiere
translator Alessandra Griffoni
director Paola Rota
with Elena Callegari, Francesca Cutolo, Maria Roveran
costume design Ursula Patzak
set designer Sandra Viktoria Müller
lights Camilla Piccioni
production PAV

Davide Carnevali | Peppa™ prende coscienza di essere un suino / Educazione transiberiana #1
13^rd September (h 22.00)
director Davide Carnevali
actors Fabrizio Martorelli
production PianoinBilico

Sonia Chiambretto | Polices!
14^th September (h 20.45) and 15^th September (h 22.30) – national premiere
translator Gioia Costa
realized by Muta Imago
director Claudia Sorace
drama and sound Riccardo Fazi
video Maria Elena Fusacchia
lights Gianni Staropoli
with Monica Demuru
production Muta Imago and Short Theatre

For all the information visit www.shorttheatre.org

July 19th 2016 / Olinda – Teatro La Cucina (Milan – Italy)/ supported by Cariplo

The stage presentation of the text Un home amb ulleres de pasta (in it. L’uomo con gli occhiali da hipster) by the Spanish author Jordi Casanovas  will be presented at Olinda – Teatro La Cucina in Milan (Italy) on 19th July, supported by Cariplo.
Directed by Roberto Rustioni, translated by Francesca Clari (IULM University), supervised by Francesco Fava, assistant director and dramaturgy Cecilia Gaipa, with Valeria Angelozzi, Roberta Lanave, Fabrizio Lombardo, Valentino Mannias.
After the show there will be an aftertalk with the author.

About the text:
At the age of thirty, Aina has just been ditched by her partner. Laia and Òscar want to encourage her to seize the opportunity and make the dream she had left parked come true: writing. To do this, they invite a poet, Marcos, who has a gift for enamouring anyone with just a few verses, to a dinner at Aina’s house. Marcos, however, will not be satisfied with a dinner filled with trivial chitchat and he demands spiritual nourishment. Aina, Laia and Òscar watch as their lives fall apart around them. They are fragile, they have lost themselves in contemporary apathy, they have drowned in their own doubt, and he takes advantage of this.

About the author:
Playwright and theatre director. Founding director of the company FlyHard, from 2005 to 2013. Founder and artistic director of the SALAFlyHard from the 2010/2011 season until 2013. Teacher of playwriting at the Institut del Teatre, Eolia and l’Escac.
He has written around thirty texts for theatre, prominently including Ruz-Bárcenas (Teatro del Barrio, 2014), Una història catalana (TNC, 2011 and 2013), Pàtria (Teatre Lliure, 2012), Un home amb ulleres de pasta (SALAFlyHard, 2010), Sopar amb batalla (Versus Teatre, 2010), La Revolució (La Villarroel, 2009), Lena Woyzeck (Temporada Alta, 2008), La Ruïna (La Villarroel, 2008), City/Simcity (Sala Beckett/Club Capitol, 2007) and Wolfenstein (AREAtangent/Versus Teatre, 2006).
He was awarded the Ciutat de València Prize for Estralls, the Ciutat d’Alcoi Prize 2005 for Beckenbauer, the Marqués de Bradomín Prize 2005 for Andorra and the Josep Robrenyo 2002 for Les millors ocasions. The trilogy made up of Wolfenstein, Tetris and City/Simcity was awarded the Barcelona Critics Prize for the best new talent of the 2006-07 season, the Serra d’Or Critics Prize for the best theatrical text of 2006 and nominations for the Butaca and the Max Prizes. Butaca Prize for the best theatrical text of 2009 for La Revolució. Time Out Prize for the best play of 2011 for Un home amb ulleres de pasta. Butaca Prize for the best theatre text of 2011 for Una història catalana. Ciutat de Barcelona Theatre Prize 2012 for Pàtria.

Grieve about Bonn Park by Bonn Park will be at Teatro i (Milan – Italy) from 2nd to 22nd March 2016.
An author died. Some people are sad. This play is about the allmighty force: Dying! And it’s very short.

Piangiamo la scomparsa di Bonn Park
direction by Renzo Martinelli
dramaturgy by Francesca Garolla
translation by Adriano Murelli
with Luca Toracca, Paola Tintinelli, Vincenza Pastore, Massimo Scola
light designer Mattia De Pace
sound and video by Fabio Cinicola

Activities
– 8th March 2016 | h 14.30 | meeting about dramaturgy with the students of the Master Degree in specialized translation and conference interpretation of the University IULM (Corso di Laurea Magistrale in traduzione specialistica e interpretariato di conferenza dell’Università IULM).
– 9th March 2016 | h 9.00| meeting with the students of the Master Degree in specialized translation and conference interpretation at the University IULM (Corso di Laurea Magistrale in traduzione specialistica e interpretariato di conferenza dell’Università IULM).
– 9th March 2016 | h 21.00 | aftertalk with the audience

For more information visit the website of Teatro i.

The stage presentation of “Dancefloor Memories” by Lucie Depauw will be presented at Pim Off Theatre (Milan) on 19th Febrary 2016.

Translated by Benedetta Pettinelli, in the frame of student of the Master Degree in specialized translation and conference interpretation at the University IULM (Corso di Laurea Magistrale in traduzione specialistica e interpretariato di conferenza dell’Università IULM).
Mise en espace by ASTORRITINTINELLI, with Alberto Astorri, Paola Tintinelli, Mr. Puma.
Free entrance.
After the show will be an aftertalk with the author.

The workshop is focused on the play “Neuf petites filles (Nine little girls)” of the French playwright Sandrine Roche. It is leads by the theatre company Biancofango.

The workshop consists on the following steps:

• reading of the play
• analysis of the play and its theatrical staging (characters, scenes and relationships)
• the workshop consists in 3 hours per 10 days in collaboration with the National Theatre of Rome – Teatro Argentina.
• Final public presentation

Age of the students: 16 years old or more (high school). Participation in the workshop is free.

The workshop is focused on the play “If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle” of the Romanian playwright Andreea Vălean. It is leads by the theatre company Bluteatro.

The workshop consists on the following steps:

• reading of the play
• analysis of the play and its theatrical staging (characters, scenes and relationships)
• the workshop consists in 2 hours per 7 days in collaboration with the National Theatre of Rome – Teatro Argentina.
• Final public presentation

Age of the students: 16 years old or more (high school). Participation in the workshop is free.

The workshop is focused on the play “Villa Dolorosa – Three birthday failed” of the young German playwright Rebekka Kricheldorf, based on the Three sisters by A. Cechov. It is lead by the theatre director Roberto Rustioni.

The workshop consists on the following steps:
– reading of the play
– attending the show Villa Dolorosa directed by Roberto Rustioni, production Fattore K, at Teatro Vascello in Rome, from 5th to 13th October 2015.
– analysis of the play and its theatrical staging (characters, scenes and relationships) in comparison with the text by A. Cechov.

The third step of the workshop consists in 2/3 hours per 3 or maximum 4 days and is organised in the premises of the participating school.
Age of the students: 16 years old or more (high school).
Participation in the workshop is free. The tickets for the show will be available for a reduced price.

A journey through the contemporary theatral writing with five texts by European authors.

Cured by Fausto Russo Alesi with Sandra Toffolatti, Fausto Russo Alesi, Fausto Cabra e Valentina Picello.
Maddalena Giovannelli will present the event.

Lait by Magdalena Barile
Lilli/Heiner intra muros by Lucie Depauw
Villa dolorosa by Rebekka Kricheldorf
Contro il progresso by Esteve Soler
Il gatto verde by Elise Wilk

“Scenari Europei 2015” is an event organized by Florian Metateatro of Pescara.

During the event will be hosted two light productions of two Fabulamundi’s authors: Sandrine Roche from France with My red Cheeks (Mon rouge aux joues) and Andreea Valean from Romania with If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (Dacă vreau să fluier, fluier).

Friday 18 | 22.00 | Mon rouge aux joues by Sandrine Roche (FR), translation by Gioia Costa, mise en espace by BLUEMOTION, director Giorgina Pi, con Valentina Acca, Aglaia Mora, Laura Pizzirani.

Saturday 19 | 22.00 | If I want to whistle, I whistle by Andreea Valean (RO), translation by Roberto Merlo, mise en espace by BluTeatro, direction Luca Bargagna, with Viviana Altieri, Vincenzo D’Amato, Davide Gagliardini, Alessandro Meringolo, Massimo Odierna.

For more info visit www.florianteatro.com

Short Theatre – 10° Edition
3-13 september 2015
La Pelanda – Rome

Fabulamundi arrives at Short Theatre 2015 with four light productions!

The authors invited at Short Theatre 2015 are Bonn Park from Germany with Sadness&Melancholy or the most lonesomest george of very all times (Traurigkeit&Melancholie oder der aller aller einsamste George aller aller Zeiten), Sandrine Roche from France with My red Cheeks (Mon rouge aux joues), Davide Carnevali from Italy with Confession (Confessione) and Andreea Valean from Romania with If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (Dacă vreau să fluier, fluier).

Sunday 6 | 18.30 | Confession by Davide Carnevali (IT), with Michele di Mauro
Tuesday 8 | 19.00 | Sadness&Melancholy or the most lonesomest George of very all time by Bonn Park (DE), translation by Alessandra Griffoni, mise en espace by and with Lea Barletti and Werner Waas
Wednesday 9 | 17.30 | Creative Europe a Roma, meeting organized by PAV and MARGINE OPERATIVO
Wednesday 9 | 19.00 | Mon rouge aux joues by Sandrine Roche (FR), translation by Gioia Costa, mise en espace by BLUEMOTION, director Giorgina Pi, with Sylvia De Fanti, Aglaia Mora, Laura Pizzirani, soundscape by Valerio Vigliar
Wednesday 9 | 22.45 | conversation with the authors organized by Teatro&Critica
Thursday 10 | 22.15 | If I want to whistle, I whistle by Andreea Valean (RO), translation by Roberto Merlo, mise en espace BluTeatro, direction Luca Bargagna

For more info visit Short Theatre website!