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 Vienna, 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.

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 March 23-24 Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will run a new edition of Dramatische Republik at  TAK Probebühne of  Theater im Aufbau Haus, with readings in German of two play by Gerard Watkins, who will be there for the occasion. During the first reading, the audience will be invited to read publically the text Der Turm (La tour) while for the second one, there will be a mise en espace of Identities directed by Paolo Costantini, young director hosted thanks to Erasmus Programme.

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 March 8th at Teatrul Odeon the show Gardenia by Polish author Elzbieta Chowaniec will celebrate the Woman Day.

On February 28th there will be the stage presentation of You say tomato by Spanish author Joan Yago.

You Say Tomato
An hour before the doors open of the ruinous multi-purpose venue where they are performing tonight, Santi and Rosó will discover that they don’t like music. They don’t like working in music, they don’t like listening to it. They hate the idea of “being musicians” but they can’t leave it alone either. “Know what the worst thing is about the crisis of being in your forties? That it’s a repeat of the crisis of being in your thirties. You have the same doubts, the same fears… But you’re ten years older.”

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.

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.

At Teatr Dramatyczny of Warsaw in January Smutek I Melancholia (Traurigkeit & Melancholie) by German author Bonn Park will still be running. The show will be on stage on 12-13 January, translated by Iwona Nowacka, with the direction of Piotr Waligorski, the set and costume design of Jak Kozikowski and with Zdzislaw Wardejn as George.

Das Wunder vom Wedding by German playwright Katharina Schlender will be on stage at TAK Kreuzberg / Probebühne from 7-9 December, from 14-16 and on 21 and 22 December.

directed by Rolf Kemnitzer
with Artur Albrecht, Ike Eickholz, Oksana Loidova, Jessica von Randow, Luise Schlender, Susanne Schultze-Jungheim, Klemens Schwabe, Erik Thews, Marianne Wagner, Harald Wissler u.a
music by Harald Wissler, Denitsa Stoyanova, Punkband Panika
costumes design by Viale Lucyna

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 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 November 16 at Teatrul Odeon there will be the stage reading of Lullaby by Erika Z. Galli and Martina Ruggeri of Industria Indipendente, with the direction of Elena Morar.  The two Italian authors, who will attend the opening, will be also involved in leading workshops with drama students of the Theatre University in Bucharest.

From 14-22 November, Spanish playwright Guillem Clua will be hosted by University of Arts of Targu Mures for leading a playwriting workshop which will involve both Romanian and Hungarian postgraduate students. For this occasion, at Studio Theatre there will be presented of The Swallow, one of Clua’s most famous plays, with the direction of Oana Leahu. The author will attend the rehearsals as well as the opening, which will take place on November 18 – the first day of Studio International Festival, organized by the University of Arts.