La Mousson d’Été (Pont-à-Mousson)

Founded in 1995 by artistic director Michel Didym, la Mousson d’Eté is one the major European events focused on the discovery, development and promotion of new playwriting. The Abbaye of Prémontrés, located in the heart of Lorraine, for seven days opens its doors to authors, directors, university teachers and students, actors as well as the public inviting them to explore contemporary theatre. La Mousson d’Eté proposes a wide range of readings, mises en espace – of texts both unpublished or translated for the first time in French -, conversations and performances.

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Théâtre Ouvert (Paris)

Théâtre Ouvert missions can be defined as promoting the contemporary dramatic art’s renewal, provoking the emergence of new kinds of writing by doing investigation and trial, or even guiding the development of those writings by the production, the edition and the circulation of texts and theatrical forms such as readings, setting up, shows, performances or radio plays…
The implementation of those missions is based on a structure organised in two important works.
First of all the work qualified as an “underground” one, corresponds to the reading of manuscript by the permanent members of the theatre but also to dramaturgic advices to authors. It also corresponds to the setting up of meetings between authors and stage artists. And finally, to a time of research and residency through for example the EPAT’s plan – EcolePratique des Auteurs de Théâtre.
The final part of our work consists of public exhibition by the publication in the Tapuscrit collection or by public presentation at different steps of the play’s creation.

www.theatre-ouvert.com

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august 2016

23aug(aug 23)1:00 am29(aug 29)1:00 amLa Mousson d’été (Pont-à-Mousson / France)

november 2016

17nov(nov 17)1:00 am22(nov 22)1:00 amF.T.O#3 festival at Théâtre Ouvert (Paris)

april 2017

03apr(apr 3)1:00 am07(apr 7)1:00 amLa Mousson d’Hiver (Pont-à-Mousson - France)

august 2017

24aug(aug 24)4:00 pm30(aug 30)12:00 pmLa Mousson d’Eté 2017

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From 24 to 30 August 2017 the 23rd edition of La Mousson d’Eté will take place at the Abbaye des Prémontrés de Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine. For more information about the program, click here.

La Mousson d’étè 2017 is participating in “Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe – Beyond Borders?” with the following activities: – from August 24th to August 30th from 9.30 to 12.30: Workshop with Rebekka Kricheldorf (DE) in the frame of L’Université d’été européenne de la Mousson d’Eté – August 24th at 20.45: radio reading of “Mademoiselle Agnès” by Rebekka Kricheldorf (DE) translation by Frank Weigand e Leyla-Claire Rabih, director Baptiste Guiton, with Quentin Baillot, Camille Garcia, Grégoire Lagrange, Maud Le Grévellec, Marie Levy, Glenn Marausse, Julien Masson and Johanna Nizard – August 25th at 14.00: staged reading of “Canicule (évangile apocryphe d'une famille, d'un pays)” by Lola Blasco (ES), translation by Clarice Plasteing, director Laurent Vacher, with Quentin Baillot, Christophe Brault, Camille Garcia, Glenn Marausse, Bruno Ricci and Ariane von Berendt, music Vassia Zagar – August 24th at 18.00: staged reading of “Poings” by Pauline Peyrade (FR), director Véronique Bellegarde, with Maud Le Grévellec, Julien Masson and Julie Pilod, music Philippe Thibault – August 26th at 16.00: round table "Writing plays today: from learning to broadcasting", with Jean-Pierre Ryngaert, Lola Blasco, Pauline Peyrade, Helena Tornero and María Velasco – August 27th at 22:30: les impromptus de la nuit, with Joseph Danan e Helena Tornero – August 28th at 14.00: staged reading of “Délivre-toi de mes désirs” by María Velasco (ES), traslation by David Ferré, director Helena Tornero, with Grégoire Lagrange, Maud Le Grévellec, Catherine Matisse, Nelson-Rafaell Madel, Glenn Marausse, Julien Masson, Charlie Nelson and Johanna Nizard

Time

24 (Thursday) 4:00 pm - 30 (Wednesday) 12:00 pm

Location

La Mousson d’étè

9 Rue Saint-Martin 54700 Pont-à-Mousson

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september 2017

20sep(sep 20)1:00 am21(sep 21)1:00 am1° National Playwrights Meeting (France)

october 2017

18oct(oct 18)1:00 am15dec(dec 15)1:00 amworkshop "Beyond borders?" at Theatre Ouvert - Paris

november 2017

24nov1:00 am1:00 am"Paper airplanes" by Elise Wilk at Theatre Ouvert

23nov1:00 am1:00 amNathalie Fillion at Theatre Ouvert / Paris

january 2018

29jan(jan 29)1:00 am10mar(mar 10)1:00 amStage presentation of Sur/exposition by the French author Aurore Jacob

march 2018

23mar(mar 23)1:00 am14apr(apr 14)1:00 amStage presentation of "La Truite" by the french author Baptiste Amann in Paris

20mar1:00 am1:00 amReading of the text by Bonn Park "Rumbling of the Milky Way" for The Mousson d'Hiver

20mar1:00 am1:00 amReading of the text by Helena Tornero "Head Under Water" for The Mousson d'Hiver

19mar(mar 19)1:00 am21(mar 21)1:00 amBonn Park in residence at Goethe Institute for The Mousson d'Hiver

14mar(mar 14)10:00 am16(mar 16)1:00 pmHelena Tornero in residence at la Manufacture for the Mousson d'Hiver

14mar(mar 14)1:00 am16(mar 16)1:00 amWorkshop lead by Helena Tornero for The Mousson d'Hiver

april 2018

25apr(apr 25)1:00 am27(apr 27)1:00 amFirst Mob Pro in London

may 2018

23may(may 23)1:00 am30(may 30)1:00 amPier Lorenzo Pisano and Maxi Obexer at Theatre Ouvert

14may(may 14)1:00 am25(may 25)1:00 amThe Italian author Pier Lorenzo Pisano in Paris

august 2018

27aug1:00 am1:00 amJosep Maria Miró at Mousson d'ètè

26aug1:00 am1:00 amEmanuele Aldrovandi at Mousson d'ètè

Event Details

On the 26th August, in the frame of Mousson d'ètè Festival, will be presented the stage presentation of the text "Sorry we didn't die at the sea" by the Italian author Emanuele Aldrovandi. Excusez-nous si nous ne sommes pas morts en mer Text by Emanuele Aldrovandi Translated by Federica Martucci and Olivier Favier Directed by Ivica Buljan With Alain Fromager, Charlie Nelson, Didier Manuel and Johanna Nizard In a not-too-distant future, Europe has become a continent of emigrants. European citizens, in a quest to find better jobs and a better future, try to reach the “richer” countries, but they have to do so illegally because those countries have since closed their borders. Among many ways of migrating illegally, one of the most widely used is the shipping container: the illegal immigrants come on board and pay a thousand dollars on departure and a thousand dollars on arrival, without knowing where they’ll be offloaded. The characters in this dystopian story are four, and they have no names. They’re identified solely by their physical traits: Robust, Beauty, Tall are the three migrants and Soft is the owner of the container. The play is divided in four parts. The first one takes place at the harbour, before the journey, the second one inside the container, the third one in the middle of the sea after the shipwreck of the boat they were traveling on and the fourth is a dreamlike epilogue – or perhaps a hallucination: the arrival of whales. As Davide Carnevali writes in the preface to the Italian version published by CUE press, the play’s strength is that it doesn’t act as “a parasite to reality, exploiting the problem of immigration and its media coverage. On the contrary, it’s a play that wants to say something that the media doesn’t regarding this problem; to show an image of this reality that isn’t generally shown; to clearly illustrate its dynamics and its motives. This is how theater reaffirms its meaning, a profound one: that of reopening the dialogue with society, where the media often close it.”

Time

(Sunday) 1:00 am - 1:00 am

Location

La Mousson d’étè

9 Rue Saint-Martin 54700 Pont-à-Mousson

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25aug1:00 am1:00 amVolker Schmidt at Mousson d'ètè

24aug1:00 am1:00 amWerner Fritsch at Mousson d'ètè

23aug(aug 23)1:00 am29(aug 29)1:00 amMousson d'été Festival

november 2018

30nov1:00 am1:00 am"28 Battiti" by Roberto Scarpetti at Théâtre Ouvert

28nov7:00 pm10:00 pm"Qui croire" by Guillaume Poix at Théâtre Ouvert

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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?

Time

(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

Théâtre Ouvert

4 Bis Cité Véron 75018 Paris

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january 2019

11jan(jan 11)1:00 am12(jan 12)1:00 ama special networking activity in UK

01jan1:00 am31(jan 31)1:00 amLong residence of German author Kevin Rittberger

march 2019

25mar(mar 25)1:00 am29(mar 29)1:00 amMousson d'hiver 2019

05mar(mar 5)1:00 am07(mar 7)1:00 amMOB PRO WARSAW

april 2019

12apr(apr 12)1:00 am09may(may 9)1:00 amFabulamundi - Call for Associate Researcher

may 2019

29may(may 29)1:00 am30(may 30)1:00 amProduction of the new play by Alexandra Badea

23may1:00 am1:00 amKateřina Rudčenková at Theatre Ouvert

21may(may 21)1:00 am23(may 23)1:00 amMob-Pro Vienna

11may(may 11)1:00 am14(may 14)1:00 amDes territoires by Baptiste Amann at Theatre Ouvert

august 2019

25aug(aug 25)1:00 am27(aug 27)1:00 amMOB PRO FRANCE

23aug(aug 23)1:00 am27(aug 27)1:00 am5 stage reading during the Mousson d'ètè 2019

september 2019

30sep1:00 am1:00 amA new production of Theatre Ouvert from the text of Joan Yago

23sep(sep 23)1:00 am25(sep 25)1:00 amMOB PRO GERMANY

november 2019

06nov(nov 6)1:00 am08(nov 8)1:00 amfifth Fabulamundi Partners’ Meeting

february 2020

21feb(feb 21)1:00 am26(feb 26)1:00 amworkshop and text by Alexandra Badea a Nancy

Event Details

Alexandra Badea has been commissioned by the festival to write a text around the theme of this edition: "ACT!", which she has entitled "Quelqu'un quelque part va continuer à marcher" (Someone someplace will keep on walking).

This new text has been staged and rehearsed by 15 student-actors from the TUN and 5 amateur actors, during a workshop called "STAGING CONTEMPORARY WRITING" led by Alexandra Badea.

The public presentation of this workshop took place on Friday, February 21st at Théâtre de Mon Désert, Nancy.

-> WRITING WORKSHOP (22-25th FEB)

Students from the TUN were selected to participate in a writing workshop led by Alexandra Badea. They were introduced to writing techniques like automatic writing, or collective writing, and learnt how to build a theatrical story based on their own personal perception of the society they live in.

The texts written by the participants during the workshop will be read in public today, Tuesday February 25th at Théâtre de Mon Désert, Nancy.

-> CONFERENCE & QnA (26th FEB)

Alexandra Badea will introduce to the general public her "Ways of Writing"- her inspirations as well as the questions that surface through her published and soon-to-be-published plays. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

This event will take place on Wednesday, 26th February at the "Maison des étudiants" in Artem Campus, Nancy.

Time

21 (Friday) 1:00 am - 26 (Wednesday) 1:00 am

Location

La Mousson d’étè

9 Rue Saint-Martin 54700 Pont-à-Mousson

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14feb(feb 14)1:00 am15(feb 15)1:00 amworkshop by Nathalie Fillion at Nancy

march 2020

09mar(mar 9)1:00 am12(mar 12)1:00 amLa Mousson d'hiver 2020

july 2020

14jul(jul 14)1:00 am19(jul 19)1:00 amCiclo Teatro sin teatro: La France! - Argentine online activities based on French Fabulamundi texts

august 2020

21aug(aug 21)1:00 am26(aug 26)1:00 amLa Mousson d'été 2020

Event Details

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.

Time

21 (Friday) 1:00 am - 26 (Wednesday) 1:00 am

Location

La Mousson d’étè

9 Rue Saint-Martin 54700 Pont-à-Mousson

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december 2020

20dec(dec 20)1:00 am31mar(mar 31)1:00 amPublished the final report about the Mobility Program of Fabulamundi

20dec(dec 20)1:00 am28feb(feb 28)1:00 amFabulamundi Workbook online

20dec(dec 20)1:00 am26feb(feb 26)1:00 amPublished the Final report about Audience Development within Fabulamundi

may 2023

29may01junNew Voices 1° partner meeting in Rome

june 2023

04jun10:07 am04may10:07 amForum

Event Details

Playwright: Constance de Saint Remy Partner: Theatre Ouvert Twinned playwright: Helena Tornero Duration: 1 year (June 2023 – May 2024) Participants: open to everyone from 18 to 27 years old / free and without conditions of artistic practice / the participant commits to the entire workshop. 5-15 participants. Location: Online sessions on WhatsApp + final meeting Time: Every first Sunday evening from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. FORUM is a writing workshop organised by Théâtre Ouvert and led by author and playwright Constance de Saint Remy

How do we meet people today ? How does digitalisation change the way we speak to each other ? What kind of social space are forums and other chat platforms ? This workshop is about exploring the new type of correspondence offered by the Internet. Every first Sunday evening of the month, the group of participants (young adults) will be connected on WhatsApp, to discuss a subject, a quote, an article or a picture… This discussion may gather several types of writing : the classical taping way, but also emojis, vocals, memes, etc. At the end of every session, Constance de Saint Remy will give exercises or material to think about for the next session. Themes will be centred on current affairs and the three topics defended by the FAB Community: gender, green theater and digitalization. Instant messaging platform is a technology that will allow the group to talk and write to each other everywhere, not necessarily on their computer, even if these applications have a Desktop version. To unite the group, monthly meetings will not be sufficient : it will be possible to chat between “official meetings”. These “unofficial chats” might happen regarding their availability or desire. Official meetings will be mandatory and reunite everybody : every person of the group shall be connected between midnight and 1:00 am, every first Sunday of the month. At the last and 12th meeting, the group will meet in person for the first time, for a collective reading of the entire discussion.

Time

June 4 (Sunday) 10:07 am - May 4 (Saturday) 10:07 am

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october 2023

30oct(oct 30)10:07 am03nov(nov 3)10:07 amThe first day of the rest of our lives

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Playwright: Constance de Saint Remy Partner: Théâtre Ouvert Twinned playwright: Ingeborg Von Zadow

Duration: 1 week Participants: 5-15 teenagers between 12 and 15 years old Location: Jean-Baptiste Clément secondary school in Paris Time: 30 October – 3 November 2023

What if we learned we had only five days left before the end of the world ? How do our eyes change when we know that our society, or the town we live in, or the planet we know are limited ? The purpose of the workshop is to explore the power of literature : creation. Because when something ends, there is room for something else. It is about worshipping some of the beauties of this world, why they must be preserved, what will happen if there is a social revolution and what would be the face of a new world. Each session focuses on writing about a specific topic : environment and collapsology. Questions might be :

What would I do that I never did ?
What would my last week / day / hour on earth be like ?
What would the last two humans on earth talk about ? What would they do?

In partnership with a secondary school in Paris – collège Jean-Baptiste Clément – and the municipality, Constance de Saint Remy works with the participants discussing about the power of art and literature regarding sustainability issues and ecological questions. What if we learned we had only five days left before the end of the world ? How do our eyes change when we know that our society, or the town we live in, or the planet we know are limited ? When something ends, there is room for something else. Let’s worship some of the beauties of this world and imagine what will happen if there is a social revolution, what would be the face of a new world… The workshop will end with a reading time of all text materials in front of friends, teachers and families.