Playwright: Elise Wilk
Partner: University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș
Twinned playwright: Roberto Scarpetti
Co-funded by the European Union
Duration: 5 days
Participants: 6 young playwrights from Italy and Romania
Location: University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș
Time: 25–29 November 2024
In 1991, the Romanian community in Italy numbered around 10,000 people. Today, it has grown to over one million, making it the largest foreign community in the country. The majority of its members are women who have come to Italy to work as caretakers, often leaving their families behind in Romania.
At the same time, there is a small Italian minority living in Romania, consisting of around 3,000 people, alongside another 20,000 Italians who have moved there for business, many of whom reside permanently in the country.
A-Broad is a workshop for young playwrights designed to develop a collective play that explores the lives of Romanian women working in Italy and Italians working in Romania—their sacrifices, their families, and their lives divided between the two countries. Led by Elise Wilk and Roberto Scarpetti, the workshop invites three young Romanian playwrights and three Italians to participate.
After the first part in Rome, during the second part in Târgu Mureș, from 25-29 November 2024, the Italian and Romanian participants will develop the first drafts of their scripts and start analyzing them in a collaborative and cohesive work of confrontation. At the end of the workshop, six-mini plays will be ready and presented in a public reading in both Rome and Târgu Mureș in 2025.
