In the frame of Short Theatre 15 there will be a lot of Fabulamundi activities:

• Panorama Roma, five days of open rehearsals led by five Italian companies on five Fabulamundi texts:
  September 7, Frosini/Timpano, The Writer by Scottish author Ella Hickson
  September 8, Manuela Cherubini & Luisa Merloni, The Eurocommisioner by Dutch author Joan Nederlof
  September 9, lacasadragilla / Emiliano Masala, I mangiatori di patate by Icelandic author  Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson
  September 10, Veronica Cruciani, Sagrada Familia by Portuguese author Jacinto Lucas Pires
  September 12, Alessandra Di Lernia,  A few words about Ulla by Finnish author Eeva Turunen
• on September 11 will be presented Illegal Helpers, a show by Paola Rota, Simonetta Solder and Teho Teardo based on the text of Austrian author Maxi Obexer.
• from September 7 to 12 the festival will host Les Cliniques Dramaturgiques , a week-long shared working space during which dramaturgs from different countries, contexts and artistic backgrounds will discuss together their ongoing projects, their individual practices and the artistic, theoretical and political scenes in which they develop their works. Les Cliniques Dramaturgiques is a project by Riccardo Fazi / Muta Imago, Elise Simonet, Jessie Mill.

During the Mousson d’été 2020 there will be a lot of Fabulamundi activities:

• from the 21st to the 26th August, the Catalan author Helena Tornero will lead a workshop about contemporary dramaturgy at Université d’été européenne.
• from 21 August to 25 August: À table! a collective play made by 4 Fabulamundi authors, with texts of Tomasz Man, Josep Maria Miró, Nathalie Fillion and Elena Vladareanu.
• 22 August: stage reading of Short Interviews with Exceptional Women by Joan Yago – a co-production with Theatre Ouvert.
  Translation by Laurent Gallardo
  Mise en espace directed by Le Grand Cerf Bleu
  with Laureline Le Bris-Cep, Gabriel Tur, Jean-Baptiste Tur
• 23 August: mise en espace of Barouf en automne by Dirk Laucke; translation by Juliette Aubert-Affholder; directed by Emilie Capliez; with the actors Christophe Brault, Sébastien Eveno, Catherine Matisse
• 23 August: mise en espace of Cheveux d’été by Pauline Peyrade
• 24 August: mise en espace of La maison sur monkey island by Rebekka Kricheldorf; translation by Leyla-Claire Rabih and Frank Weigand; direction by Mathieu Bertholet; with Eric Berger, Nicolas Chupin, Marie-Sohna Condé, Alexiane Torrès
• 25 August: mise en espace of La musique et le mal by Lola Blasco. Translation by Clarice Plasteig, directed by Claudia Stavinsky; with Tamara Al Saadi, Maud Le Gravellec and Catherine Matisse.

From July 14 to 19, the Argentine web platform Teatro Timbre4 will hosts Ciclo Teatro sin teatro: La France!, a cycle of online activities including readings, talks, music and other experiments based on a selection of texts by French Fabulamundi authors.

The suitcase (Der Koffer) by playwright Malgorszata Sikorska Miszczuk will be on stage in Berlin on 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 June, in the frame of Dramatische Republik.
The play is the story of a Frenchman named Michel Leleu left home and went to a museum. There he found his father’s suitcase, though his father hadn’t left it there. His remarkable story made the papers. In The Suitcase, an answering machine and a Narrator figure speak directly to the audience…

More information are available here.

On 16-17 March, Wiener Wortstaetten together with Kosmostheater Wien will run an international symposium on the topic of Female perspective on contemporary playwriting. Fabulamundi playwrights invited are Lenka Lagronová (CZ), Katharina Schlender (D), Anna Wakulik (POL), Elise Wilk (ROM) Michaela Zakutanská (SK) and Alexandra Pâzgu (ROM) as curator/dramaturg. The title of the symposium is: “Is writing an activity, career or therapy?”

On 12 March Wiener Wortstaetten, in cooperation with Burgtheater Wien will host the Kollektivsalon with the title Anschlussfähig. In this framework, three Fabulamundi playwrights, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Maxi Obexer and Jaroslav Rudis, will be invited. They have been commissioned to write a short play dealing with the historical date of March 12th 1938, which was the day of the annexation of Austria to Hitler Germany, in a contemporary way. The three plays will be presented as staged readings at the Kasino and after them, the three authors will be invited to take part in table-discussions with the audience and moderated by Bernhard Studlar.

On 21st and 22nd February, The Theatre Faculty of The Arts University of Targu Mures will present two playwrights perspectives on the exodus of the Saxons from Transylvania, followed by discussions with the audience and journalists. On February 21st will be presented Disappearing by Elise Wilk, a performance in Hungarian, with Romanian and English surtitles, directed by Aba Sebestyen. On February 22nd will be presented the stage reading of Thomas Perle play Karpatenflecken, translated into Romanian by Elise Wilk. The presentation will be directed by Eva Patko and read by students and tutors of the Acting Department of the UAT.

From the 18th to the 21st  of February, Tutt’Intera by the French author Guillaume Poix will be presented at Teatro India (Rome), with the direction and interpretation of the company Bartolini/Baronio. In this frame, the author will be invited in Rome and on the 18th involved in a conference focused on the translation at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Together with Poix, there will also be the three Fabulamundi Italian translators, Simonetta Solder, Attilio Scarpellini and Monica Capuani, in order to discuss the good practices of the theatre translation in Italy.

On 11-12 February Scenes of domestic violence by French author Gerard Watkins will be on stage at Teatr Dramatyczny m. st. Warsawy, with the direction of Aldona Figura.

On February the first phase of the third year of the project Europe Connection will start: the project, realized by PAV and Primavera dei Teatri festival, aims to bring international authors in the South of Italy, in order to work with local company. On 2020, three Portuguese authors have been selected: from the 9th to the 16th February, in Naples, there will be the first artistic residency with Miguel Castro Caldas on his text Were I to live you would be dead with the Company Angelo Colosimo; from February 12-19 there will be the second artistic residence, in Reggio Calabria, with the author Jacinto Lucas Pires and the company Scena Nuda, about his text Sagrada Familia.

Les Epoux/Gli Sposi by David Lescot
a show by Frosini/Timpano in the frame of Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe

on stage at Bucharest – Teatrul Odeon
for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Ceauşescu regime

On Sunday, December 22nd, at Teatrul Odeon in Bucharest, the show Les Epoux – Gli Sposi by David Lescot will be presented for the first time in Romania, directed and interpreted by the company Frosini / Timpano.
December 22nd is a symbolic day because it marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Romania.
Les Epoux – Gli Sposi | a Romanian tragedy is the story of an ordinary power couple: Nicolae Ceausescu and Elena Petrescu. Capricious and bloody dictators, these Macbeth and Lady Macbeth of the Balkans have sown terror in the Romanian people and then ended up summarily executed in front of the cameras, under the eyes of the world, on December 25th, 1989.

Who were the Ceausescu spouses? And what was the fate of Romania after their fall? We have tried to please these two characters, who are described as two cynical tyrants exalted by the delirium of omnipotence but also as two ordinary retired people, two poor figures, even a little tender and helpless. We tried to work on a balance between distance and closeness and to graft the ambiguity throughout the scenic construction. (Daniele Timpano and Elvira Frosini)

Les Epoux – Gli Sposi at Teatrul Odeon is an event organized in collaboration with the European Center Direct Botosani and the Association EUROPAEUS (Rome), in the frame of the European project Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe – Beyond Borders?
The show will be followed by a shared debate with the audience, moderated by Mihaela Michailov, author of Fabulamundi and theatre critic.
Les Epoux David Lescot
“Soţii” – Gli Sposi
Teatrul Odeon – Bucharest
22nd December 2019, h 19: 30, Sala “Studio”

Direction and acting / Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano
Text / David Lescot
Translation / Attilio Scarpellini
Light designer / Omar Scala
Set designer / Alessandro Ratti
Artistic collaboration / Lorenzo Letizia
Assistant / Camilla Fraticelli
Voice off / Valerio Malorni

A show by Frosini / Timpano
Production PAV, Gli Scarti, accademia degli artefatti, Kataklisma teatro
With the support of Armunia, Spazio ZUT!, Teatro di Roma, Asti teatro, Institut Français
In the frame of Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe

Wiener Wortstaetten in collaboration with Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen and Teatro stabile di Bolzano from the 12th to the 15th December will presented “Wordbox Fabulamundi”: a collage of four plays staged by young director Nicola Bremer presenting Industria Indipendente Lullaby and Fabrizio Sinisi Heiliger Krieg in German and Azar Mortazavi Il tempo sospeso and Miroslava Svolikova Europa flieht nach Europa in Italian.

More information are available here

For the third 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.

In the edition of 2020 the 3 selected authors will be Miguel Castro Caldas, with his text Were I to live, you would be dead, selected by the company Angelo Colosimo; Jacinto Lucas Pires with his text Sagrada Familia, selected by the company Scena Nuda; and Joana Bertholo with her text CorpoArena, selected by the company Mammut Teatro.

From the 8th until the 10th December the three directors will be in Lisbon at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II to meet the authors and to start their collaboration.

On November 29th, Theatre Letí in cooperation with Dilia agency will produce a stage reading of three newly translated Italian plays: Do boje! (Allarmi!) by Emanuele Aldrovandi, Ukolébavka (Lullaby) by Industria Indipendente and Bratři (Fratelli) by Pier Lorenzo Pisano. Pisano will attend the reading and he will be also giving lectures on DAMU (The Academy of performing Arts in Prague) whilst his presence in Prague.

Fabulamundi has launched a successful collaboration with the Premio Riccione Teatro with a focus entirely dedicated to Poland, which will take place on Saturday 2 November.
The day will open with a round table moderated by Graziano Graziani focusing on Polish theater with Claudia Di Giacomo and the the playwrights Ela Chowaniec and Anna Wakulik.
For the first time in Italy will be presented the mise en espace of the most famous theatrical text by Elżbieta Chowaniec: “Le Gardenie”.

The University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș is preparing an editorial event, which will take place in mid-October. UATPress, the publishing house of the university, together with UNITEXT (the publishing house of The Romanian Theatre Union) will launch, in the framework of the National Theatre Festival in Bucharest, the anthology Bicicleta roșie – piese Fabulamundi 2017 – 2020 (The Red Bicycle – Fabulamundi Plays 2017 – 2020). The volume will feature plays by David Košťák, Guillem Clua, Anna Wakulik, Valentina Diana, Joan Nederlof and Helena Tornero.

On the 18th and 19th October at the Werk X Theatre in Vienna will be presented 4 staged readings of contemporary plays, featuring Böhmisches Paradies by Jaroslav Rudiš and Heiliger Krieg by Fabrizio Sinisi.

The text of the Spanish author Joan Yago Short Interviews with Exceptional Women will be presented at Theatre Ouvert (Paris) on the 30 September 2019

BREFS ENTRETIENS AVEC DES FEMMES EXCEPTIONNELLES
text by Joan Yago
translation by Laurent Gallardo | creation of Collectif Le Grand Cerf Bleu

mise en voix Collectif Le Grand Cerf Bleu (Laureline Le Bris-Cep, Gabriel Tur et Jean-Baptiste Tur) | artistic collaboration Gabriel Tur
cast Anna Bouguereau, Laureline Le Bris-Cep, Juliette Prier, Jean-Baptiste Tur

The text of the Romanian author Csaba Székely “I regret nothing” will be presented at Teatro Out Off (Milan) on 29th September 2019, in the frame of the activities that the Civica Scuola Paolo Grassi realize with Fabulamundi.

Non rimpiango nulla
text by Csaba Székely

translation by Sofia Pelczer
direction and set designer by Andrea Piazza

cast Giovanni Battaglia, Michele Bottini, Maria Caggianelli Villani
tutor Sabrina Sinatti

sound designer Hubert Westkemper
light designer Daniela Bestetti with Paolo Latini, Simona Ornaghi
set designer Roberto Pio Manzotti, Alice Capoani, Mattia Franco
costume designer Enza Bianchini, Nunzia Lazzaro
video collaboration Fabio Brusadin

more information are available here

The text of the Czech author David Kostak “Milkway” will be presented at Teatro Out Off (Milan) on 27th September 2019, in the frame of the activities that the Civica Scuola Paolo Grassi realize with Fabulamundi.

MILKYWAY
text by David Kostak
translation by Eleonora Bentivogli

directed by Giacomo Nappini
with Monica Bonomi and Edoardo Barbone
Tutor Sofia Pelczer

sound designer Hubert Westkemper
light designer Daniela Bestetti with Paolo Latini, Simona Ornaghi
set designer Roberto Pio Manzotti, Alice Capoani, Mattia Franco
costume designer Enza Bianchini, Nunzia Lazzaro

more information are available here

The text of the Spanish author Esteve Soler “Against Progress” will be presented at Teatro Out Off (Milan) on 25th September 2019, in the frame of the activities that the Civica Scuola Paolo Grassi realize with Fabulamundi.

Contro il progresso – 7 pièce di teatro burlesque

text by Esteve Soler
directed by Emanuele Giorgetti

with Letizia Bravi, Marco Cacciola, Riccardo Vicardi
tutor Claudio Autelli

Set designer Pio Manzotti, Mattia Franco, Alice Capoani
sound designer Hubert Westkemper
light designer Daniela Bestetti with Paolo Latini and Simona Ornaghi
costume designer Enza Bianchini and Michela Tarallo with Nunzia Lazzaro
video Fabio Brusadin, Emanuele Giorgetti
grafic designer Sara Frigerio

more information are available here

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.

In the frame of Short Theatre 2019, French Fabulamundi author Lancelot Hamelin, will present his Italian Dreams – People of Tor Sapienza on September 12th and 13th at La Pelanda – Atelier performance. The project is a performance composed of dreams and nightmares that were assembled in Rome during Hamelin residency at Villa Medici in 2016-17. These interviews were collected from residents living in different neighbourhoods – in particular, a run-down district in the Tor Sapienza peripherical area. In July 2019 at Teatro India in Rome, the team organized a workshop to transcript the recordings made in 2017 – to compose an edited version as a script.

From 25 to 27 August Mousson d’ètè will host the Mob-Pro France, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. The theme of this session will be inclusion and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eight Fabulamundi playwrights: Claudius Lünstedt (Germany), Valentina Diana (Italy), Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk (Poland), Elena Vladareanu (Romania), Alexandra Pazgu (Romania), Baptiste Amann (France), Helena Tornero (Spain), Ayse Bayramoglu (Turkey)

During the Mousson d’ètè Festival 2019 will be presented 5 stage readings of Fabulamundi’s authors:

– 23rd August at 6pm: Bleus / Blue eyes by the Icelandic author Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson
translation by Séverine Daucourt
director Véronique Bellegarde
cast Laurent Charpentier, Glenn Marausse, Julie Pilod
music Philippe Thibault

– 25th August at 2pm: Comme une chienne sur un terrain vague / Julia and the Empty Lot by the Spanish author Claudia Cedo
translation by Laurent Gallardo
director Helena Tornero
cast Laurent Charpentier, Olivier Cruveiller, Camille Garcia, Catherine Matisse, Alexiane Torres, Ariane Von Berendt

– 25th August at 6pm, Traducteur / Interpretaçao by the Portugues author Jacinto Lucas Pires
translation by Marie-Amélie Robilliard
director Michel Didym
cast Quentin Baillot, Etienne Galharague, Louise Guillaume, Nelson-Rafaell Madel
music Vassia Zagar

– 27th August at 2pm, Fratrie / Fratelli by the Italian author Valentina Diana
translation by Olivier Favier
director Tamara Al Saadi
cast Olivier Cruveiller, Catherine Matisse

– 27th August at 4pm, Fenêtre / Windows by Ayse Bayramoglu
translation by Selin Altiparmak
director Hubert Colas
cast Étienne Galharague, Louise Guillaume

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 Theatre Letì June starts with CAMPQ, a unique immersive production in the occasion of the 14th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. CAMPQ is one of the many camps where the newcomers from other planets have found their refuge. Do they have a right to be among us? Are we able to integrate them? An audience will be given a chance to find answers to these questions for almost eight hours long visit. The two Fabulamundi Catalan authors Claudia Cedó and Joan Yago have been part of this project which will have its world premiere on June 6th at 21:00 at Štvanice island.

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 15th at Teatrul Odeon will start the rehearsals of  the new production Per il tuo bene by the Italian author Pier Lorenzo Pisano, translated by Florin Galiş, directed by Zoltan Balazs, Set design Constantin Ciubotariu, Costume design Andrada Chiriac, Cast: Cezar Antal, Ioan Batinaş, Cătălina Mustață, Paula Niculiță, Simona Popescu, Eduard Trifa, Silvian Vâlcu

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.