From 23-25 September, Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will host the Mob-Pro Germany, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in contemporary society.
The theme of this session will be Translation and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eleven Fabulamundi playwrights: Katja Brunner (Germany), David Drabek (Czech Rep.), Azar Mortazavi (Austria), Artur Pałyga (Poland), Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Italy), Guillaume Poix (France), Gabriel Sandu (Romania), Fabrizio Sinisi (Italy), Robert Woelfl (Austria), Joan Yago (Spain), Petr Zelenka (Czech Rep.).
During the MobPro, on September 23rd, there will also be presented a short version of Natura morta con attori by Fabrizio Sinisi and Nationalstrasse by Czech author Jaroslav Rudis  at Haus der Statistik.

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.

From 22-24 January at Sala Beckett there will be the stage presentation of Peppa Pig realizes she’s a swine by Italian playwright Davide Carnevali. The author will also lead a workshop for teenagers.

From 18-20 July there will be Mob Pro – Spain, 3 days of meeting and training to stimulate and raise awareness through open discussions on the role and position of playwrights in contemporary society. Fabulamundi artists involved will be Muhammet Ali Basf for Austria, Roman Sikora for the Czech Republic, French author Lancelot Hamelin,  German playwrights Jelena Schulte and  Katharina Schlender, Roberto Scarpetti for Italy, Polish authors Dana Lukasinska and Sandra Szwarc, Mihaela Michailov for Romania. For Spain will be involved local playwright Ferran Joanmiquel together with others Fabulamundi Spanish authors.

Clàudia Cedó is the resident playwright of the 2017-2018 season at Sala Beckett. From 18th December 2017 to 7th January 2018 will be the première of Clàudia Cedó’s plays Tortugues: la desacceleració de les partícules and L’home sense veu.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website:
https://www.salabeckett.cat/espectacle/tortugues-desacceleracio-particules/
https://www.salabeckett.cat/espectacle/lhome-sense-veu/

The Spanish authors Victoria Szpunberg, Helena Tornero and Joan Yago are working with Syrian immigrants recently established in Barcelona in Síria: cartografia incompleta. Open presentation: 16th December.

More info are available on the Sala Beckett website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/laboratori/siria-cartografia-incompleta/

Carles Batlle, Clàudia Cedó, Guillem Clua, Esteve Soler, Victoria Szpunberg, Helena Tornero and Joan Yago will be working with a group of translators from Catalan/Spanish into other languages to acquire skills of how to promote themselves into other countries. From 15^th to 17^th November 2017.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/activitat-resta/primeres-jornades-traduccio-teatre-catala-contemporani/

The mise en espace of Antisocial by Bogdan Georgescu will be presented on 13th of July at Obrador d’estiu (Sala Beckett).
Translated into Catalan by Xavier Montoliu Pauli, directed by Aleix Fauró, with Arnau Comas, Isak Férriz, Marina Fita, Carles Gilabert, Pablo Macho, Isis Martín and Carmela Poch.
After the show there will be an aftertalk with the author and the cast.

About the text
A province town high school, year 2015, Romania. The students create a secret group on social media. The teachers find out, infiltrate and take action. With the support of some of the students. # freedom of expression # violation of privacy # trust # respect # comment # educational system # trashed # public space # snitch # slander # share # lack of professionalism # bribe # like # outdated # dialog @ any level # how far are we from the caves we came from? # hashtag.

Antisocial is an Active Art play combining devising theatre, documentary theatre and observational performing techniques, exploring new types of theatricality and dramatic structures. The play was originally produced by the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu and the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Mise en espace Muttersprache Mameloschn (Mother Tongue Mameloschn) by Marianna Salzmann
Within the GREC 2016 Festival de Barcelona

Translation: Maria Bosom
Direction: Thomas Sauerteig
Cast: Marta Angelat, Míriam Iscla and Alba Pujol
Assitant Director: Júlia Bauer

Three women, three generations, three sets of aspirations: grandmother, mother and daughter. Social dependencies repeat and vary across the generations: What was it like living as a Jewish woman 50 years ago in the GDR, and what does it mean today?
Mother Tongue Mameloschn raises questions about the characters’ identity, where they belong and their homeland, all against the background of the latent anti-Semitism that was widespread in the GDR, of which the mother has bitter memories. Even if some things have changed since then and they now enjoy different freedoms, the questions about liberty and how to lead a self-determined life have remained the same.

l’Obrador d’estiu | 11/07/16, 19.00

Marie Dilasser in Barcelona | Artistic Residence of the French Playwright at the Sala Beckett

Sala Beckett – Poblenou
from 05/07/16 to 13/07/16

French playwright Marie Dilasser is going to take part in a week-long artistic residence at the Sala Beckett in the context of the European project Fabulamundi. During her stay in Barcelona, Dilasser is going to attend the rehearsals of the work-in-progress of her play Paisatge interior brut, directed by Glòria Balañà i Altimira, and she is going to carry out several activities to get to know Barcelona’s theatrical reality.

The prèmiere will be on 12th of July, in collaboration with Grec Festival at l’Obrador d’estiu.
After the show, there will be an aftertalk with the author of the text, the director, the translator and the actress.

Author: Marie Dilasser
Translation: Carles Batlle
Direction: Glòria Balañà i Altimira
Cast: Aina Calpe
Videoprojections: Alfonso Ferri

About Paysage Intérieur Brut:
Since she returned from a psychiatric hospital, Bernadette has spent most of her time shut away in her kitchen. As a woman violently separated from active life, the kitchen, along with her children’s play area and her husband’s farm which she can see through the glazed window, becomes the territory where she puts her life in order. Playing, in turn, the role of her children, her husband, her mother, her dog and her old boss, she will try to emerge from her isolation.

Artistic Residence of the Rumanian Playwright Bogdan Georgescu in Barcelona – from 6th to 13th December 2015

Rumanian playwright Bogdan Georgescu is going to take part in a week-long artistic residence at the Sala Beckett in the context of the European project Fabulamundi. During his stay in Barcelona, Georgescu is going to attend the rehearsals of the work-in-progress of his play Antisocial, is going to talk to secondary school students about playwriting and is going to take part in a post-show talk.

12th and 13th December 2015 Work-in-progress: Antisocial by Bogdan Georgescu
Translated into Catalan by Xavier Montoliu Pauli. Directed by Aleix Fauró.

A province town high school, year 2015, Romania. The students create a secret group on social media. The teachers find out, infiltrate and take action. With the support of some of the students. # freedom of expression # violation of privacy # trust # respect # comment # educational system # trashed # public space # snitch # slander # share # lack of professionalism # bribe # like # outdated # dialog @ any level # how far are we from the caves we came from? # hashtag.

Antisocial is an Active Art play combining devising theatre, documentary theatre and observational performing techniques, exploring new types of theatricality and dramatic structures. The play was originally produced by the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu and the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

THE AUTHOR: Bogdan Georgescu (Romania)

Artist, observationist. Tools in use: playwriting, community theatre, video composing, producing, social intervention, project management. Soros Fellow of UEP 2004; Cornerstone alumni of Institute 2, CEC Arts Link Fellow – residency hosted by Brown University, Writing for Stage Program. He works as an artist in creative processes based on the collaboration with the community involved and interdisciplinarity for Active Art project such as The Sensitive Map, RahovaNonstop, Build your community!, The Evacuation of The Student’s Culture House in Timisoara, The Countryside Tour, The House of People, Kickstart Limanu, ROGVAIV, For The Win, Triple Point, Everything is realities, Antisocial.

Plays and scripts include: Romania! Kiss me (produced by Play Company in New York 2006, The National Theatre of Iaşi, 2009) House of People (The Maximum Security Prison, Craiova), I am special – turneulatara.blogspot.com; XXXCartoons – participative theatre experiment in a virtual set; the documentary blogbook cornerstoneinstitute5.blogspot.com; D.W. – 3D text; ROGVAIV (published by PAJ – Performance Arts Journal, vol. XXXV, nr. 1 / 2012, PAJ 103, published by MIT Press, Cambridge MA), FTW, Triple Point, Everything is realities, ANTISOCIAL. Youtube channel: bo2gdan.