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Conference on Theatre Structures in Milan
On 20 May 2016 the Union des Théâtres de l’Europe will offer a conference on theatre structures in Europe and the Mediterranean at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa in Milan, Italy. The event is part of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE and supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The conference will explore the different structures of public theatres in Europe and the Mediterranean. Various funding and management models, organizational systems, production structures, and theatre regulation systems will be analysed and compared, with a view to better understand how the general principles guiding national and cultural policies can impact the way theatres are structured.
The objectives of the conference are to stimulate the exchange of information, knowledge, and know-how about the structures of public theatres in Europe and the Mediterranean, to bring forward innovative approaches, and trigger new ideas; but also to better understand the links between politics and theatre, and to open a dialogue between politicians and theatre professionals.
We feel the relevance of understanding each other’s similarities and differences to bring forward an engaged culture of performing arts, and to promote the responsibility of (artistic) freedom.
The Speakers are:
Francisca Carneiro Fernandes (Porto),
Sergio Escobar (Italy),
Enikő Eszenyi (Budapest),
Michal DoÄekal (Czech Republic),
Fadhel Jaibi (Tunisia),
Armin Petras and
Jan Hein (Stuttgart) and
Ilan Ronen (Tel Aviv)
20 May 2016
at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d'Europa
Milan, Italy
In context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE.
With the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
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The ISO Theatre in 2016
in Porto and Sofia
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22 – 31 May 2016 at the Teatro Nacional São João do Porto, Portugal
27 June – 2 July at the Sfumato Laboratory Theatre, Sofia, Bulgaria
This summer the ISO Theatre will come together again for a new artistic residency in Porto and a special masterclass in Sofia.
In the 9-day-Porto-residency from 22 to 31 May the ISO Theatre will work together with TNSJ’s artistic director Nuno Carinhas on Karl Kraus’ The Last Days of Mankind.
From 27 June to 2 July the Sfumato Laboratory Theatre in Sofia will offer a special masterclass only for ISO actors in context of the 11th edition of the Small Season Festival, mastered by Sfumato’s artistic director Margarita Mladenova.
In context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE.
With the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
More info about the ISO Theatre
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UTE Decentralized Academy:
New masterclasses in Delphi and Reims
The UTE Decentralized Academy will settle itself this summer in Reims and Delphi for two masterclasses for young actors: From 2 – 6 June a masterclass for young actors in Reims (France), directed by Ludovic Lagarde, artistic director of the Comédie de Reims and member of the board of directors of the UTE. And from 11 – 22 June a new masterclass in Delphi in collaboration with the National Theatre of Greece, Athens and the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. The masterclass in Delphi will be directed by Lydia Koniordou, a highly acclaimed Greek actress and director.
More info
In context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme.
With the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
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News from our UTE member theatres
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NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE
Athens, Greece
www.n-t.gr
S U M M E R T O U R
Antigone
By Sophocles
Translation Dimitris Maronitis
Directed by Stathis Livathinos
First performance: 15 July 2016
A contemporary approach at the classical masterpiece signed by the artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, Stathis Livathinos.
The fight for the throne of Thebes between the two sons of Oedipus, Polyneices and Eteocles, has ended. The brothers lie dead on the battlefield. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has ordered that Polyneices should remain unburied for having fought against his city. However, the dead man’s sister, Antigone, resolves to honour him with a proper burial. She is arrested and brought before Creon, who, in accordance with the law, sentences her to death. The king refuses to change his mind even after the intervention of his own son, Haemon, and orders Antigone to be buried alive in a cave. However, the suffering foreseen by the seer Tiresias will soon become a reality. The king’s show of mercy comes too late to prevent disaster. Antigone has hanged herself in her prison; Haemon has committed suicide, while Creon’s wife, Eurydice, follows her son in killing herself.
Antigone was probably first performed at the Great Dionysia festival of 441 BCE, and was written by Sophocles as a response to the exile of Themistocles, the victor of the Battle of Salamis. In Antigone, one of the finest works of ancient Greek drama, the conflict between the moral law and the law of the state reaches its peak, with the two protagonists unable to escape the tragic fate that has been decreed for them. | More info
A collaboration of National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece and Cyprus Theatre Organization.
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S U M M E R T O U R
Oedipus the King
By Sophocles
Directed by Rimas Tuminas
First performance: 29 July 2016
The palaces of Thebes are full of supplicants begging King Oedipus to help the people. The plague that has decimated the city has alarmed the king himself, who has requested the advice of the oracle at Delphi. The oracle predicts that the Thebes will be saved as soon as the person responsible for the death of King Laius is found and expelled from the city. Oedipus begins an investigation. The deeper he goes, the closer it brings him to the truth: that he himself, who had saved Thebes from the scourge of the Sphinx, was now responsible for the moral pollution of the city. An old prophecy was shown to have been true. However much he tried to avoid his fate, his every action led him towards it. The only way open to him now is exile.
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, perhaps the most iconic ancient Greek tragedy, belongs to the Theban cycle. According to the sources, it was performed for the first time in 425 BCE, during the Peloponnesian War, when plague had decimated the population of Athens. The work examines the individual in respect of personal freedom, power, society and divine will. | More info
A collaboration between National Theatre of Greece and Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow – Russia.
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S U M M E R T O U R
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes
Translation Dimitris Dimitriadis
Directed by Michail Marmarinos
First performance: 5 August 2016
A classical and timeless comedy performed by an ensemble of leading Greek actors directed by one of the most significant directors of the country.
As the Peloponnesian War rages, keeping the men from their homes, Lysistrata convinces the women of Athens and Sparta to abstain from their “marital duties†in order to bring the hostilities between the two cities to an end. At the same time, the women occupy the state treasury, which finances the military operations. Their action has immediate results and the men react in a variety of ways. After setbacks, altercations and negotiations, peace is achieved and is celebrated with a Bacchanalian feast.
Lysistrata was performed in 411 BCE, a year and a half after the disastrous defeat suffered by Athens and its allies in the Sicilian expedition. In this atmosphere, Aristophanes made a last – partly farcical, partly tragic – appeal for peace, writing his most anti-war play and simultaneously giving world literature one of its strongest symbols of female rebellion. | More info
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THÉÂTRE NATIONAL DU LUXEMBOURG
Luxemburg, Luxemburg
www.tnl.lu
The Agony of Ingeborg Bachmann
By Pierre Jorris
Directed by Marion Poppenburg
World Premiere: 14 June 2016
On stage: 17, 18, 21 June
Ingeborg Bachmann was born in 1926 in Klagenfurt. Although she published only two collections of poetry before being overtaken by a crisis which led her away from the lyric genre, she is one of the most significant German poets of the twentieth century.
On 25 September 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann was seriously injured by a fire in her Rome apartment. She was hospitalized but perished weeks later. If Bachmann has (like many great female writers) become somewhat of a mythical figure in the popular imagination, it is in no small part due to the manner of her death, combined with her troubled personal life. Her true legacies, however, are her writing and the moral imperatives it powerfully conveys.
The Agony of Ingeborg Bachmann, a three-act drama, imagines the last days (the two final weeks, in fact) of Bachmann who is slowly dying of burn-wounds, and who, in her agony, is visited by the voices of the three most important men in her life: her great early love, a poet who was essential for her development as a woman and as a writer, even though their relationship was doomed; a highly esteemed composer with whom she had a life-long long & close friendship and often collaborated; a famous novelist and playwright with whom she shared a debilitating and profoundly destructive relationship over a number of years.
Although a work of the imagination, the play also draws on the writings of the four main characters as well as on their published correspondence. Pierre Joris, the TNL author in residence 15/16, explains this circumstance as follows: Any resemblance with persons who have actually existed in the past is due, or can be attributed, if such attribution is necessary or desired, to my lack of imagination, or to my dislike of fiction, or to my desire not to make up what doesn’t need to be made up. | More info
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The threepenny opera
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Damiano Michieletto
With the Giuseppe Verdi Symphonic Orchestra of Milan
a Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production
On stage: 19 April – 12 June 2016
Venue: Piccolo Teatro Strehler
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill created it in 1928, and in the same year they staged it in Berlin. It was first staged in Italy in 1956 by Giorgio Strehler, in the presence of Brecht, who died six months later.
We are speaking of The threepenny opera, “played continuously throughout the world – explains Damiano Michieletto – in the upcoming season alone, as well as ours, there will be productions in Vienna, Germany, France, Salzburg… one may say that the points of reference and comparison for a director are many, and above all, never ending, as there are endless attempts to approach this unique piece of Western theatrical historyâ€.
What will Damiano Michieletto’s Threepenny opera be like? “It will be The threepenny opera on trial. Because the script, from the beginning, is well suited to being read from many points of view – I’m thinking of those who follow the lines of the Marxist Brecht, and those who have chosen instead the pure entertainment factor of the Broadway musical – my idea is to put the Opera on trial, to tell the stories of the characters and at the same time analyse it, look at it through a magnifying glass. The fulcrum of my Opera is the trial of Mackie Messer, which becomes the filter through which to read the story and at the same time understand it. It is an attempt to deconstruct the story and rebuild it according to a specific circumstance, in order to create the necessary analytical distance. It will be a work on the characters carried out over a continuous recitative gap, where song creates a further and overwhelming break from the fabric and the circumstances of the story. A countdown, the story just before the sentence, of the three days or more over which the tale takes place, as though it was a case presented during a trial, with evidence, witnesses, and charges at the Old Bailey courthouse where the story comes to an end in the third actâ€. | More info
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Harlequin servant of two masters
By Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Giorgio Strehler
Staged by Ferruccio Soleri, with the collaboration of Stefano de Luca
A Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production
On stage: 3 to 22 May 2016
Venue: Piccolo Teatro Grassi
A season is not a season at the Piccolo without the inevitable appointment with the jests, the duels and the laughter of the legendary Harlequincreated sixty years ago by Giorgio Strehler, bringing life back to the tradition of Goldonian theatre.
Today, after having travelled the world, from Siberia to New Zealand, from Japan to the United States, and after having placed its protagonist (Ferruccio Soleri, in the title role since 1960) in the Guinness Book of Records for the most performances in the same role, Harlequin brings its magic back to the stage in via Rovello, where it was born in the summer of 1947.
A manifestation of a way of making theatre, a training ground for actors – the students of our school have always become part of the great family of Harlequin in an ideal rite of passage with their predecessors – this play is a prodigy of energy and vitality which enthrals, excites and moves audiences of all ages and nationalities.
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Trilogia del Naufragio
Lampedusa Snow
Written & directed by Lina Prosa
A Teatro Biondo di Palermo production
On stage: 10 to 15 May 2016
Venue: Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato
Presented in context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programs of the UTE
Lampedusa Snow is the second chapter in the Trilogia del naufragio by Lina Prosa. Inspired, like Lampedusa Beach (at the Teatro Grassi from 27 October to 4 November 2015), by news events, this pièce is another first person account of a tragic odyssey. A few years ago, due to the overcrowding in the immigrant reception centre, a number of immigrants were transferred to another centre located at an altitude of about 1800 metres. Mohamed is one of these immigrants: with a second-hand sweatshirt which is too big for him, the young African engineer, tired with the seemingly never-ending wait, decides to look for a way to reach the other side of the mountain. Thus begins a difficult climb during which he has a surreal encounter with a partisan who speaks to him of the revolution and sings him Bella ciao. Ever more breathless, Mohamed is engulfed by the cold and the snow until the last breath of life escapes him. | More info
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Il ritorno di Casanova |
Casanova's Return to Venice
By Arthur Schnitzler
Translated, adapted & directed by Federico Tiezzi
On stage: 17 – 29 May
Venue: Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato
A Compagnia Lombardi Tiezzi production
The Venetian adventurer, at the age of 53, tired of erotic adventures and nauseated by his past of excessive diplomacy, has but one desire: to return to his beloved Venice. When it seems that his dream is about to come true, an old friend drags him to a country house near Mantova, where Casanova meets the young Marcolina, who rekindles his desire. The gaze of the woman, cold and indifferent, plunges him into desperation: he feels old and without charm. The bitter taste of defeat leads him to an extreme and folly attempt: suspecting that the young woman is the lover of a dandy, a certain second lieutenant by the name of Lorenzi, he does everything in his power to discover the truth. Having confirmed his suspicions, one night, using deception, he takes Lorenzi’s place and thus has the desired love of the beautiful Marcolina. After a mysterious dream, upon awakening, the situation comes to a head.
Casanova’s Return to Venice (1918) is one of Schnitzler’s masterpieces. In this abridged version of theatrical opera, the ploy of allowing Casanova to speak in first person reveals the tragicomedy of modern conscience, detached from traditional values, lead by instinct and false values in an attempt to dodge old age and death. | More info
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TEATRO NACIONAL SÃO JOÃO DO PORTO
Porto, Portugal
www.tnsj.pt
Espólios
Written & directed by Joana Craveiro
Co-produced by Teatro do Vestido, TNSJ
Premiere: 5 May 2016
On stage: 5 – 15 May
Venue: Teatro Carlos Alberto/Casas Particulares
“Things make us just as much as we make things.†These words from anthropologist Daniel Miller, author of such books as Stuff and Home Possessions, inspired the latest creation by Joana Craveiro: Espólios [Possessions], a show that takes us through the doors of six private houses in Downtown Porto, intimate refuges peopled with personal belongings. What do people keep in their homes? What items surround them, and for what purpose? What stories do they tell, what do they reveal to us? After Esta é a minha cidade e eu quero viver nela (2012), a production that made us walk the streets of Vitória parish, and Até comprava o teu amor (2014), in which we wandered through the rooms of an emblematic Porto mansion, Teatro do Vestido returns to Porto and to the TNSJ programming for its next step towards a theatre of interiority, by placing us inside houses (and the people that inhabit them) and casting a new light on their things, their collections, their fetishes, their renunciations.
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Espectros | Ghosts
By Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Susana Janic
Direction & set design by João Mota
Co-produced by Seiva Trupe, TNSJ
Premiere: 12 May 2016
On stage: 12 – 29 May
Venue: Teatro Nacional São João
Sixteen years later, Seiva Trupe once again crosses paths with the TNSJ. From Pericles, Prince of Tyre to Ghosts, from William Shakespeare to Henrik Ibsen: our just resumed relationship once again develops under the aegis of a crucial name in Western drama. The critical reception of Ghosts (1881) was marked by scandal, but we should not see it today as the play that shocked our grandparents. It is – ever was and shall be – the incarnation of a civilisational unease, of a divorce between moral demand and vital impulse, chaotic freedom and repressive order. At the centre of this “family story, grey and gloomy as a rainy dayâ€, as the Norwegian playwright himself described it, we find the remarkable Helene Alving. She is the one who declares war on the ghosts from the past, an atavic mass of “antiquated stances and dead beliefs†that poison the present and jeopardise the possibilities of a future. Together with a cast that includes Custódia Gallego, António Reis and Júlio Cardoso, stage director João Mota breathes new life into this masterpiece, in which Ibsen dared to depict life as a secret conformity between good and evil, truth and falsehood, tragedy and comedy.
Performance with English subtitles
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As Criadas | The Maids
By Jean Genet
Translated by LuÃsa Costa Gomes
Directed by Simão Do Vale
Co-produced by Subcutâneo, TNSJ
Premiere: 13 May 2016
On stage: 13 – 22 May
Venue: Teatro Carlos Alberto
A child of social assistance and correctional facilities, of petty crime and vagrancy, Jean Genet is an author whose writing cuts, knife-like, not only through social normality, but through literary and dramatic normality as well. In his mind, beauty should have “the power of a poem, that is, of a crimeâ€. The Maids (1947) is about a crime – a crime that has been meditated, dreamed, ritualised like a black mass. Two sisters, both housemaids, plot the murder of their mistress, losing themselves in a spiral of roleplaying. Having, with Gertrude (2013), intruded into the innermost sanctum of Hamlet’s “stained motherâ€, stage director Simão Do Vale once again enters the female universe, now by infiltrating Madame’s room, which becomes the ceremonial space for a sacrifice. This staging uses LuÃsa Costa Gomes’ unpublished translation of the play’s first version, which has never been performed in Portugal – the one that Genet wrote (a single-act condensation of a lost original version) before a series of changes had ushered in the text’s present form. The Maids is a play that is often described as a denunciation of social inequalities, but this particular presentation is not concerned with making a manifesto. The director warns us: “This show is about attempts to evade restriction through imagination, that sinful creature that lives happily inside our heads.â€
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Hotel Louisiana Quarto 58
Text & dramaturgy by João Samões
Based upon the life & work
of Albert Cossery
Created & directed by João Samões
Co-produced by Debataberto – Associação Cultural e ArtÃstica, TNSJ
Support Programa Gulbenkian de LÃngua e Cultura Portuguesas
Premiere: 26 May 2016
On stage: 26 – 29 May
Venue: Teatro Carlos Alberto
Albert Cossery was born in Cairo, in 1913, and moved to Paris in 1945; until his death, in 2008, he lived in a room of Hôtel La Louisiane in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, out of which he would walk every day to “contemplate the spectacle of the worldâ€, that place “ravenous for human victims†he depicted without hatred. His books – seven novels and a short story collection, written at the cadence of “one sentence per day†– invite us to simplicity and laughter as forms of subversion. His characters actively give themselves up to idleness, demanding time for contemplation. In Hotel Louisiana Quarto 58 [Louisiana Hotel Room 58], playwright and director João Samões brings to the stage the life and work of this Egyptian writer, thus continuing a cycle of shows hosting the voices of free-spirited men, of which O Papagaio de Céline (2014) – based on Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night – was the latest chapter. Featuring a solo performance by Joana Bárcia, Hotel Louisiana Quarto 58 aims to blur the boundaries between the theatre, freedom of thought and literature, an impertinence worthy of this “prophet who freed body and mind from the colonisation of hegemonic valuesâ€, whose sarcasm earned him the soubriquet of Voltaire of the Nile.
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Nunca Mates o Mandarim
O FITEI no TNSJ
Based upon Eça de Queirós
Directed by Gonçalo Amorim
Co-produced by Teatro Experimental do Porto, TNSJ
On stage: 9 – 19 June
Venue: TNSJ
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Rei Lear | King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Rogério de Carvalho
Co-produced by Ensemble – Sociedade de Actores, TNSJ
On stage: 30 June – 17 July
Venue: TNSJ
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desMOSTRA
OPEN CALL
Ana Renata Polónia, André Soares, LuÃsa Saraiva, Catarina Miranda, Cristina Planas Leitão
Organisation participantes desMOSTRA
Collaboration TNSJ
Dates: 4 – 15 July
Venue: MSBV
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Uma Aventura no Espaço
Directed & performed by Carla Veloso, Igor Gandra
Co-produced by Teatro de Ferro, Centro Cultural Vila Flor
On stage: 7 – 15 July
Venue: TeCA
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O Meu Jantar com o André
By Wallace Shawn, André Gregory
Directed by Manuel Wiborg
Produced by Teatro do Interior
On stage: 22 – 31 July
Venue: TNSJ
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A Última Lição | School exercise
Based upon Eugène Ionesco
Directed by Roberto Merino
Produced by Escola Superior ArtÃstica do Porto
On stage: 28-31 jul
Venue: MSBV
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HABIMA - NATIONAL THEATRE OF ISRAEL
Tel Aviv, Israel
www.habima.co.il
A Simple Story
After S.Y. Agnon
Adapted by Shahar Pinkas
Directed by Shir Goldberg
On stage: 22 – 24, 31 May &
16 – 18, 25 June
When Bluma Nacht, an orphan, comes to live in the home of her well-to-do relatives, Baruch-Meir and Tsirel Hurvitch, their son, Hirshl, falls in love with her. However, his parents arrange a marriage between him and Mina, the daughter of prosperous villagers. Hirshl is miserable in his loveless marriage to Mina and yearns for Bluma. He suffers silently, and eventually breakdown and is transferred to the asylum at Lemberg. After returning from the asylum, he fathers a son with Mina, and accepts that his youthful dreams will never become a reality. A modern adaptation to the famous story of S.Y. Agnon, Nobel Price winner for literature, 1966. | More info
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Fleischer
By Igal Even Or
Directed by Moshe Kepten
On stage: 6, 7, 16 May & 20, 29, 28 June
Elderly couple Berta and Arye Fleischer, who are Holocaust survivors, own a butcher shop in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. Their neighborhood, which was once a nice, happy place, is now rundown and shabby. Developers start buying up land, and they discover that an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood is being build under their very noses. The Fleischers, who had always led completely secular lives, try to become religious in order to attract Orthodox customers to their shop, but it remains empty and ostracized. With very little money to spare, they are forced to have their thirty-year-old son, Shloimale, lives in a home for the mentally ill, move back in with them. The Fleischers story can be interpreted as a warning to all that the inability to communicate can lead to civil war, in which everyone is a loser. | More info
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To the End of the Land
After the novel by David Grossman
Adapted for the stage
and directed by Hanan Snir
Opened on: 20 February 2016
Presented in context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE
On stage: 9, 12, 14, 15 May
& 9, 10, 12, 16 June
When Ora’s son, a combat soldier, goes off on a military operation, she runs away from home to avoid the torment of awaiting the tragic news that is bound to arrive. She travels across Israel with her childhood sweetheart, Avram, recounting her son’s life story along the way.
This is a great love story between Ora, Avram and Ilan, who meet in a hospital at the age of 16, in the midst of the Six Day War. This random encounter ties them together and shapes their fate, in light of the fragility and anxiety of the Israeli existence. | More info
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Coriolanus
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Irad Rubinstein
On stage: 15, 28, 29, 30 May
& 5, 6, 16, 18, 19, 20 June
Coriolanus, a Roman general, rises to power after having military successes against various uprisings challenging the government of Rome. However, his temperament is unsuited for popular leadership and he is quickly deposed and expelled from Rome. Disguising himself, he creates an alliance with his former enemy from another city in order get revenge on Rome. This results in his ultimate downfall and death. A modern and actual adaptation. | More info
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Alone in Berlin
By Hans Fallada
Adapted for the stage by Shahar Pinkas
Directed by Ilan Ronen
Premiere: 15 July 2016
Otto and Elise Hampell, a German couple, decide to take part in the German Resistance after Elisa discovers that her brother has fallen in France. They urge people to resist the Nazis by creating hundreds of postcards about it. Eventually they are discovered, tried and executed. | More info
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SCHAUSPIELHAUS BOCHUM
Bochum, Germany
www.schauspielhausbochum.de
Die Schutzbefohlenen / Appendix / Coda / Epilog auf dem Boden
By Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer
Presented in context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE
On stage: 14,17 May + 3, 18, 26 June
+ 3, 9 July
Venue: Kammerspiele
First there were few; then there were more. And even then they already exclaimed, “The boat is full.†Now they’re coming, hundreds of thousands of them, through deserts, across mountains and the great sea in the South.They spare no efforts, risk their lives, and pay horrendous amounts of money to their smugglers. They seek protection from war and terror, from poverty and lack of prospects. They have shaken our border fences for so long and so fiercely that they could pass. Elfriede Jelinek, who has been working on a heavyset work on the European refugee crisis since 2013, offers the text for Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer’s new production. So far, four texts have been published under the title Die Schutzbefohlenen (The Suppliants). The world premiere took place at the Thalia Theatre in 2014; since then numerous other productions have been developed. The last part Epilogue grounded was published in January 2016, and is employed for the first time in Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer’s production at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.
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Mephisto
Based on the novel by Klaus Mann
Directed by Daniel Löffner
Premiere: 13 May 2016
On stage: 20, 27, 29 May + 3, 5, 12, 26 June + 2, 9 July
Daniela Löffner, who has been invited to the renowned theatre festival “Theatertreffen†2016 with her production of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons at Deutsches Theater Berlin, adapts Klaus Mann’s world-famous novel Mephisto for stage. The novel was published in 1936 in exil in Amsterdam and was forbidden in West Germany for decades. Her production aims to relate the ambiguities in careerist Höfgen’s behaviour to his life as a passionate actor. It also deals with the widening gap between extreme political viewpoints, which connects our present time with the tense situation in the Weimar Republic. | More info
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Wunschkinder | Planned Children
By Lutz Hübner & Sarah Nemitz
Directed by Anselm Weber
Premiere: 29 May 2016
On stage: 5, 12, 27, 30 June + 2,6, 7 July
Venue: Kammerspiele
At the end of May, the artistic director of Schauspielhaus Bochum, Anselm Weber, puts the new play by the successful duo Lutz Hübner and Sarah Nemitz (Bochum, Richtfest) on stage at the Kammerspiele: Wunschkinder (“Planned Childrenâ€). Planned Children? Marc is 19, finished school four months ago and has spent his time since sleeping, smoking weed, watching television and raiding his parents’ fridge. Selma, also 19, undergoes vocational training and prepares for her final exams at evening school, while working in a pub as well as in a call centre and caring for her mentally unstable mother. Then Marc and Selma meet and fall in love. Selma gets pregnant – and the young people’s life and that of their legal guardians is turned upside down. The play carefully examines the relationship between the generations and also takes a critical but humorous look at the life plans of the middle-class.| More info
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MALY THEATRE
Moscow, Russia
www.maly.ru
ВоÑемь любÑщих женщин |
Eight Women
By Robert Thomas
Directed by Vladimir Beilis
On stage: 11, 25 May
Venue: Ordynka stage
More info
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ТРÐМВÐЙ «ЖЕЛÐÐИЕ» |
A Streetcar named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by S.V.Potapov
Premiere: 19 May 2016
More info
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CONFLICT ZONES | ZONES DE CONFLIT
Young European Journalists on Performing Arts |
The UTE online theatre magazine
Expressing the views of young cultural journalists strongly involved in the artistic life of their country, the articles displayed in the magazine do not claim to objectivity, but intend to reflect the original point of view of one single author concerning the theatre sector in his/her country. Published in both original language and English, each article looks into the artistic environment of one specific country, thus raising such diverse issues as the organisation and structure of public theatres, the development of arts funding models, the evolution of cultural policies and the prevailing aesthetics of the current theatre production.
New articles by journalists from other countries will follow in the course of the following months and years. At the end of the three-year CONFLICT ZONES network-programme, the magazine should bring together articles by more than twenty young journalists based in each of the countries where the UTE is active.
www.conflict-zones.reviews
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The TERRORisms E-book
In context of the successful UTE project TERRORisms (2013 - 2015) , the UTE realized an online publication of an anthology of texts bringing together the five plays created for the project in original language and in German and English translation.
THE FIVE PLAYS CREATED
FOR THE PROJECT
5 morgen
Fritz Kater | Armin Petras
Schauspiel Stuttgart, Germany
The Dragonslayers
Milena Marković | Iva Milošević
Yugoslav Drama Theatre Belgrade, Serbia
God Waits at the Station
Maya Arad | Shay Pitowski
Habima – National Theatre of Israel, Tel Aviv
We chew on the Bones of Time
Jonas Corell Petersen
National Theatre of Oslo, Norway
La Baraque
Aiat Fayez | Ludovic Lagarde
La Comédie de Reims, France
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For more information, follow the links:
TERRORisms Special Issue
TERRORisms project
TERRORisms e-book
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LA COMÉDIE DE REIMS
Reims, France
www.lacomediedereims.fr
La Ménagerie de verre |
The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Daniel Janneteau
On stage: 25 – 27 May 2016
« The Glass Menagerie presents life as an experience without meaning but run through by moments of pure beauty. The kind of beauty you don’t want to let go .â€
Daniel Jeanneteau
An intimate family piece in a little apartment in Saint Louis: The mother, Amanda, abandoned by her husband, the son, Tom, poet, employed in a shoe warehouse, the daughter, Laura, marked by a handicap, a loner and collector of small animals made of glass. Jim, a young colleague of Tom, invited in time for dinner in the secret hope to marry Laura…
The stage, a translucent body, exposes and imprisons the personages at the same time. Starring the enormous actress Dominique Reymond, incandescent and secluded, anxious and luminous.
Tennessee Williams mixes his own memories, real life and fiction, when he in 1944 wrote The Glass Menagerie, the picture of an American family teared through the turbulences of the 1929 crisis. With a story, strong and simple at the same time, Williams constructs a universal masterpiece, subtly disturbing. | More info
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Concert Rodolphe Burger
12 May 2016
The exceptional artist, man of the written word and of sound, Rodolphe Burger takes the rock beyond its initial vocation.
Solo or in different projects that he realizes in the recording studio or on stage – Rodolphe Burger is an artist in motion: Guitarist, composer and singer of Kat Onoma, this multitalented artist creates bridges between musical styles and art disciplines: music, cinema, literature, theatre or modern art.
Every new composition of Explicit Lyrics originates in literature; from Jack Spicer to T.S. Eliot, from EE. Cummings to Pierre Alferi, from Dylan Thomas to Olivier Cadiot… a way of extending the literary work he pursues since many years. | More info
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SFUMATO
Sofia, Bulgaria
www.sfumato.info
Medea – My Mother
By Ivan Dobchev
Directors | Ivan Dobchev &
Margarita Mladenova
On stage: 25 May
The initiating event in our history is an irresistible desire to come to know your genealogy, to find your real mother. The return to the roots, to the archetype is an act of intolerance towards the comforts of the modern consummator-oriented civilization, towards its models that deprive of individuality. The gesture of quitting is already a challenge.
The rushing-in of this meteor into the Balkan context lets us confront the notions of "Paradise Lost" with the damages that this same consummator-oriented civilization that we run away from has brought to the people who inhabit the "man’s province" (after Elias Canetti). | More info
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That Thing
Atelier on the human encounters with goblins, vampires, werewolves, evil fairies, wood-nymphs in the wild balkan grasslands.
Directed by Margarita Mladenova
& Ivan Dobchev
On stage: 31 May
Based on common work during a workshop at the Sfumato Theatre from 23 February – 10 March 2016, 50 young actors were united working with director Margarita Mladenova and Ivan Dobchev on this mythological subject. Until the end of the season 2015/16 the group will present the workshop's results regularly at the Sfumato Theatre.
The Atelier featured as models some quite odd phantasms – archetypical characters who have once shuffled off their mortal coil, have become ghosts, and then have gone through the metamorphosis of humanlike creatures. According to the author of the Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung, “archetypes are disseminated not only through tradition, language, and migration, but they can rearise spontaneously, at any time, at any place, and without any outside influence… The archetype itself is empty and purely formal, nothing but a facultas praeformandi, a possibility of representation which is given a priori. The representations themselves are not inherited, only the forms, and in that respect they correspond to the instincts. The existence of the instincts can no more be proved than the existence of the archetypes, so long as they do not manifest themselves concretely.†| More info
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Small Season Festival
24 June – 3 July 2016
Created in 2005, this annual festival provides a space for young artists to showcase their work and experiment their ideas. It has established itself as the most active forum for unconventional art in Bulgaria, bringing together artists, new audiences, theatre experts and cultural managers. This year the festival will take place in context of increased "anxiety syndrome" due to crisis of all kinds.
From 24 June to 3 July 2016, the festival will propose a multitude of activities and events in the fields of theatre, dance, film, music, photography, arts and scenography. Among performances showcased during the festival those nominated for the “Sfumato – New Names†distinction are invited to feature in the programme of the theatre’s next season; participants are invited to attend workshops and Sfumato gives support to the production of future projects. This new edition will be open to the international.
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NÃRODNà DIVADLO – NATIONAL THEATRE
Prague, Czech Republic
www.narodni-divadlo.cz
The Mouse Paradise Experiment
By Jiřà Havelka, Martina Slúková,
Marta Ljubková
Directed by Jiřà Havelka
World Premiere: 26 May at the New Stage
The laboratory mouse may be a lovely pet. But what about its serving for scientific experiments? Experiments seeking eternal youth, experiments with the brain, genetic experiments. The humans make tests on animals. What if we became the lab mouse? A stage experiment with an actor and a mouse, an attempt at stage reality, laboratory conditions right before our eyes. We analyse society’s welfare, present scientific proof of the decomposition of society, in which those entering paradise inevitably perish.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Translated by Jiřà Josek
Directed by Daniel Å pinar
Premiere: 16 & 17 June at the National Theatre
Hermia is to marry Demetrius, yet she loves Lysander. The two lovers plan to elope, but they reveal their intention to Helena, who feels affection for Demetrius and convinces him to pursue them. The action is entered by Oberon, who receives from Puck a magic flower, evoking love in people… The chaotic story takes place during a midsummer night, when every slumber may bring forth a new dream. But where do such dreams end up – what do we actually remember from them? When the world around us begins spinning, it is hard to say where its boundaries are. The Bard’s classic comedy, which returns to the stage with each generation; a fantastic show of motifs, plots, mysteries and secrets, which true theatre-goers must see at least once in their lifetime.
Performance with English subtitles:
16 October 2016
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Three Sisters
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Translation by LeoÅ¡ SuchaÅ™Ãpa
Directed by Štěpán Pácl
Preview:
24 & 24 June at the Estates Theatre
Premiere:
8 & 9 September 2016
Three sisters. Olga, Masha and Irina. The eldest is a teacher at a high school; the middle sister is unhappily married to the teacher Kulygin; the youngest strives to find the sense of life and longs for true love. Yet what the three Prozorova sisters yearn for most is to return to Moscow, a city they remember from their childhood as the only place where one can be happy. Moscow – so magnificent! So exciting! So ... different! Olga, Masha and Irina perseveringly long for happiness, which they fail to experience in their lives. And hence they have hopes for the future, pine for the past, while they remain insusceptible to the signs of the present. They deem the present merely a period of transition, a time of exile.
Three sisters. Three tragicomic fates. Recollection of the old times and the feeling that life can only be lived to the full elsewhere. Is it indeed the case? Therefore – to stay? Or to leave? To leave the native town, escape the drudgery of work, a dysfunctional relationship? Three sisters. And three identical questions: To stay or to leave?
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VÃGSZÃNHAZ
Budapest, Hungary
http://vigszinhaz.hu
A N N I V E R S A R Y
VÃgszÃnház – 120-years-young
It’s hard to believe that the always young and dynamic VÃgszinház is starting its 120th season! Founded in 1896 it has been one of the most prestigious dramatic theatres in Hungary ever since. VÃgszÃnház is a people’s theatre and an art theatre at the same time, with a standard company of actors, performing classic and contemporary, foreign and Hungarian plays of a wide range of genres.
The VÃgszÃnház is one of the finest examples of theatre buildings designed by Fellner and Helmer, whose 19th century "new-standard theatres" can be found scattered across central Europe. Our continuing ambition is to provide our viewers with quality entertainment and unforgettable theatrical experiences!
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Földengrés Londonban |
Earthquakes in London
By Mike Bartlett
Directed by Enikő Eszenyi
On stage: 2, 3, 13, 18, 21, 23, 26 May
& 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12 June
Venue: VÃgszÃnház
Three girls, three sisters. Sarah, a famous politician who is being blackmailed, Freya, a teacher who is expecting a child and Jasmine, a rebellious university student, who works as a stripper at night. Their father, Robert Crannock, a well-known climate researcher, predicts a dark future for our planet, and he passes on this pessimism to his daughters. The three girls fight an enduring battle for love and a happier future, but their lives keep getting more and more chaotic. What kind of a life awaits us here on Earth? What future will our offspring have? The girls seek the answers to these questions as each of them finds a different way to be happy. This new contemporary British play tells us about the lives of these people in an incredibly exciting way, the plot rich with unexpected twists, as it discusses the big issues of life with lots of humour and music. | More info
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Don Juan
By Moliére – Brecht
Directed by Daniel D. Kovács
The rehearsals of Moliére’s classic masterpiece has just started. The play will be directed by Dániel D. Kovács, in the Pesti SzÃnház.
Don Juan is searching for the diversity of the unique, and searching for the finite in the infinite. In deed and in thought, he dares something that no one else. He is striving obsessively to higher and higher goals. He is curious about what he can allow to himself, how far he can go, and where is the certain extent. The sky will punish you because of it – people say. Yes, course, I’ll belive, when I see – so he says.
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The Paul street boys
A musical by László Dés - Péter Geszti - Krisztián Grecsó
Based on the novel by Ferenec Molnár
Directed by László Marton
The rehearsals of this musical play, based on Ferenc Molnár’s novel, The Paul street boys has already started in VÃgszÃnház.
This novel is one of the most poignant writing in the Hungarian literature. Every generation discovers it again and again. The grund has become our common thinking, what is ours, as the actors sung one of the full of emotional, full of melody soundtrack in the musical by Dés – Geszti – Grecsó. Our hope that Dés-Geszti authors and the crew of the theatre and László Marton’s magnificent direction could repeat the succes of the running since decades show The Jungle Book with this new production.
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Workshop with Armin Petras
June 2016
Armin Petras is coming to the VÃgszÃnház in June 2016 to hold a workshop for the actors of the theatre. As part of the workshop Armin Petras creates an adaptation of György Dragomán’s recent novel The Bone Fire. György Dragomán’s book examines important and thought-provoking questions. What do we do when a country is liberated? Will we be relieved or will we be haunted by our past?
The project is created in a co-production of the Comedy Theatre - the Schauspiel Stuttgart - the Staatsschauspiel Dresden - the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj and Sibiu Theatre.
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JUGOSLOVENSKO DRAMSKO POZORIÅ TE - YUGOSLAV DRAMA THEATRE
Belgrade, Serbia
www.jdp.rs
J D P O N T O U R
The Broken Jug
By Heinrich von Kleist
Directed by Igor Vuk Torbica.
at Tampereen Teatterikesä
Theatre Festival, Tampere, Finland
Dates: 5 & 6 August
Yugoslav Drama Theatre is taking part in the main programme of the international theatre festival in Tampere, Finland, Tampereen Teatterikesä, with its celebrated production The Broken Jug written by Heinrich von Kleist and directed by Igor Vuk Torbica. The guest performance is scheduled for the beginning of August. The Tampere Theatre Festival is held annually and is the oldest and the largest professional theatre festival in the Nordic countries. It served as a display window for the finest Finnish productions but since 1989 it has introduced first international artists. Nowadays, one third of the Main Programme consists of international productions. Yugoslav Drama Theatre is for the first time invited to take part in this Nordic event.
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I N R E H E A R S A L
Aleksandar Popovski directing
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
In the year of 400-annaversary of William Shakespeare (1616/2016) Yugoslav Drama Theatre is announcing start of rehearsal for its newest production of Hamlet for the 4th May. The premiere is planned for the beginning of the new season. The director Aleksandar Popovski together with his set designer Sven Jonke has already collaborated with YDT: Candide, ou l'Optimisme by Voltaire and Metamorphoses after Ovid. The title role is going to be delivered by NebojÅ¡a Glogovac. In the cast are also: Jasna ÄuriÄić, Ljubomir Bandović, Jovana Stojiljković, Nikola RakoÄević, Bojan Dimitrijević. It is going to be the fifth Hamlet staged in Yugoslav Drama Theatre since its founding.
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Egon Savin directing
Pod žrvnjem | Under the Millstone
By Dragoslav Nenadić
One of the leading directors of Serbia Egon Savin starts rehearsals for the production of Dragoslav Nenadić Pod žrvnjem (Under the Millstone). The play is actually a dramatic triptych and all three stories are situated in Belgrade, bringing picturesque and distinctive characters. However, this social play written probably in 1907 and staged only once in 1908, soon was forgotten. New economic crises of the XXI century have revived interest of YDT for it.
Costume designer is Bojana Nikitović and in the cast are prominent actors: Anita ManÄić, Boris Isaković, SrÄ‘an Timarov, AnÄ‘elika Simić, Marko Janketić, NebojÅ¡a Milovanović, Marko Baćević, Jovana Gavrilović and Marko Grabež.
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Good to know: The JDP each month offers its productions with English subtitles at least two times, and two times with subtitles in Serbian for people with hearing problems.
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NATIONAL THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE
Thessaloniki, Greece
www.ntng.gr
Το αγόÏι με τη βαλίτσα
Boy with a suitcase
By Mike Kenny
Directed by Mihalis Sionas
On stage: 21 May
Venue: Aneton Theatre, Thessaloniki
Presented in context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE.
For the first time a performance for young spectators forms part of the Macedonia-Thrace Unit: The production is staged in Northern Greece’s cities and villages.
The multi-award winning British playwright Mike Kenny touches upon a highly topical issue. The performance directed by Michalis Sionas aims to raise young spectators’ awareness regarding the big refugee issue and the issue of forced migration.
Little Naz lives in a Middle Eastern country. War breaks out and his family is forced to flee. However, there isn’t enough money for everyone to leave and Naz’s parents send him to his brother to London alone. Naz imagines that he is Sinbad the Sailor crossing deserts, mountains and seas with Krysia as his only source of company. Krysia is a girl, who is also going to London. In his suitcase, Naz carried with him the stories that his father would tell him. | More info
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ΣωτηÏία με λÎνε
Sotiria is my name
By Sofia Adamidou
Directed by Christina Chatzivasileiou
On stage: 5 – 15 May
Venue: Lazaristes Monatstery – Studio
The play written by journalist Sofia Adamidou, to whom the famous Greek folk singer Bellou herself had granted permission to write her biography and is staged for the first time at the NTNG, directed by Christina Chatzivasileiou. Sotiria Bellou is played by Efi Stamouli.
A few hours before major surgery that resulted in her losing her voice, the great folk singer doesn't stop talking about her eventful life: her early years in Chalkida, her departure for Athens a day after the outbreak of the Greek-Italian war, her cooperation with Tsitsanis, the legendary Rebetiko composer... A blend of roughness and sensitivity, present and past, love nd hate, reveal an explosive personality who doesn't lose, not even for a moment, her humor and passion for life.
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Το παγκάκι
The Bench
By Alexander Gelman
Directed by Grigoris Karantinakis
Premiere: 5 May 2016
On stage: 5 – 8 May
Venue: Lazaristes Monastery – Studio
Alexander Gelman, one of the most significant playwrights of his time, wrote The Bench in 1983. Since then it has been translated and played in thirty countries and it keeps being played, due ti its profound human angle but also to its bitter humor that renders it timeless and up to date in a tragicomic way.
It was written in the Soviet Union of the eighties, the period before its fall, when arbitrage and corruption prevail. The society is at an impasse as well as its people. They dream of another life somewhere else, somehow differently. They get away to the other worlds, to other people's lives, they create fictional stories, they evade a suffocating and intolerable routine, claiming for an efflorescence.
It's a tragicomic story of two lonely people. One day they find each other in the public park. He and she bring on stage the most vivid, the most prolific of the themes, Love. They walk together the route from lie to truth. Route that in some moments lie is being he only truth.
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HUNGARIAN THEATRE OF CLUJ
Cluj, Romania
www.huntheater.ro
The Book of Elders
After Domokos Szilágyi
Directed by Mihaela Panainte
Premiere: 7 May 2016
On stage: 11 May / 2, 19 June
Venue: Studio
Domokos Szilágyi is one of the most important representatives of 20th century Hungarian literature born in the Transylvanian region. The young director Mihaela Panainte creates a two-character (Ãron Dimény, Ferenc Sinkó) play inspired by the works of the Transylvanian native visual artist Sándor Plugor, who in turn had based his creations on Szilágyi’s poem, The Book of Elders. Movement – staged by Yves Marc and EnikÅ‘ Györgyjakab – plays a crucial role in the performance, as does the music composed by Șerban Ursachi. According to the director, Domokos Szilágyi’s poem manages to dissect the existential questions regarding life and death while also emanating an inexplicable sense of inner peace, a trait that she herself wished to recreate within the play.
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The Lower Depths
By Maxim Gorky
Directed by Yuri Kordonsky
Pre-opening: 7 July 2016
Venue: Studio performance in the Main Hall
Maxim Gorky has written The Lower Depths – or A Night’s Lodging, between 1901 and 1902. The lodging house, portrayed in the play, gathers social outcasts, thieves, gamblers, ex-artists, ex-aristocrats and a prostitute.
Rather than focusing on a specific description or criticism of social stratification and political circumstances of Gorky’s era, the show directed by Yuri Kordonsky dissects the more fundamental human condition of these characters. Through their misery and vulnerability the show raises essential questions on humanity, compassion, and the need for the other.
Performance with English surtitles.
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PERFORMANCE EXCHANGES
True to the spirit of partnership that exists between our two institutions, the VÃgszÃnház from Budapest and the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj will continue their mutual guest performances this spring as well.
On the 25th of April, the ensemble of the Comic Theatre of Budapest/VÃgszÃnház performed the contemporary Hungarian playwright György Spiró’s comedy Kvartett (Quartet) in Cluj. The Hungarian Theatre of Cluj will reciprocate this visit and perform a play based on Franz Kafka’s novel America at the VÃgszÃnház on June 8. The show which premiered in Cluj last December was directed by Czech director Michal DoÄekal.
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VOLKSTHEATER WIEN
Vienna, Austria
www.volkstheater.at
Wir Hunde | Us Dogs
From Signa & Arthur Köstler
Premiere: 14 May 2016
Dates: 15 – 21, 31 May
& 1 – 4, 7 – 11, 14–18 June
Venue: Faßziehergasse 5a
The renowned Danish-Austrian performance collective SIGNA presents its first show in Vienna. Wir Hunde/Us Dogs, a coproduction with Volkstheater and Wiener Festwochen, invites the visitors to explore a strange and sometimes even uncanny world that they built in a building previously used by the Volkstheater as storage, office and rehearsal space. Now it’s occupied by several families who share the same obsession: They prefer to live as dogs – not as human beings. After working for several months with a group of international and Viennese performers, SIGNA opens this animal parallel world for visitors. | More info
On 19 June the Volkstheater will offer a public discussion with the artists.| More info
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Bucharest, Romania
www.bulandra.ro
The Bach Files
A performance by Alexandru Darie
Music by Adrian Enescu using themes of J.S.Bach
On stage: 7 May 2016
A private investigator looking into a metropolis – a melting pot of all time, worlds and possibilities – a downside of the great composer, a lost soul.
Science Fiction thriller accents, a disturbing story about love, beauty, struggle between good and evil, about the search for one’s true self.
A live film, the actors, transformed into black and white images, dissolve, overlapping animations. They live and tell their story in and over cartoons in a huge kinetic comic created by Octavian Neculai. A movie created with 2D to 3D live theater. A show exclusively driven by music.
The extraordinary premiere took place on 25 September in context of the George Enescu Festival 2015. | More info
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SCHAUSPIEL STUTTGART
Stuttgart, Germany
www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de
Death of a Salesman

By Arthur Miller

Directed by Robert Borgmann

Premiere: 7 May 2016
On Stage: 7, 18, 22, 29 May & 10, 20 June
& 2, 7 – 9, 14 –16, 21 – 23 July
Willy Loman, a travelling salesman for the past 36 years, seems to be running on empty. He can’t keep up in the business world. 
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is the story of a loss of identity and social tragedy. Loman is a victim of the unconditional American dream of success and prosperity. “The show must go onâ€. | More info
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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Directed by Sebastian Baumgarten

Premiere: 11 June 2016
On stage: 11, 15, 21 & 24 June
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, who grew up in poverty, manages to become a lawyer and councilor with polished manners, a graceful appearances and business acumen. But instead of using these characteristics to battle against bureaucratic corruption, he develops a clever idea for a fraud that brings him financial success: dead souls.
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Stadion der Weltjugend

By René Pollesch

Directed by René Pollesch

World premiere: 1 July 2016
For more than 15 years the author and director René Pollesch has been enthralling the Stuttgart audience. René Pollesch will move to the space of a drive-in theatre in Stuttgart for this production. | More info
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TEATRO DI ROMA
Rome, Italy
www.teatrodiroma.net
Calderón
By Pier Paolo Pasolini
Directed by Federico Tiezzi
On stage: 8 May 2016
Venue: Teatro Argentina
A Teatro di Roma and Teatro della Toscana Production
Calderón by Pier Paolo Pasolini is the extraordinary re-writing of the classical Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca, set in Spain during the years of the Francoist regime. Yet Calderón is, above all, a precipitous descent into hell: both of the social world and of oneself. Just as a dream that is always enclosed within another dream, Rosaura wakes up in a constantly changing social class. Passing from the aristocratic world to lower-middle class context until reaching sub-proletariat misery, Rosaura is always considered a foreigner, as Pasolini himself has always been considered: a troublesome author, a civil poet, yet also a mystic and a desperate prophet. Stuck in a history and a society of which they do not belong, the lead characters of Calderón live in the painful space between anger and nostalgia, the love for the world and the anger felt towards adults, who are the rulers of history.
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Battlefield
Based on the Mahabharata & the play written by Jean-Claude Carrière
Adapted & directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
On stage: 11 & 15 May 2016
Venue: Teatro Argentina
« Thirty years after his legendary nine-hour version of the Mahabharata, Peter Brook has returned to this sacred poem of India « not to make a revival or something nostalgic, but on the contrary, to create, in the spirit of today, a very essential, very intense piece that speaks about our concerns.
If we have decided to come back to this work now, it is because there was the need to find something relevant for us today. The Indians say – and it could sound a little vain – that everything is contained in the Mahabharata and if it is not in the Mahabharata, then it does not exist.
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Guerre/Conflitti/Terrorismi
The Teatro di Roma takes part in the CONFLICT ZONES network programme of the UTE with its Guerre/Conflitti/
Terrorismi (Wars/Conflicts/Terrorism), a detailed programme of shows, meetings and workshops focusing on the theme of war, violence and the struggle for power, which has recently proposed the performance Preamleto (Pre-Hamlet) by Michele Santeramo, directed by Veronica Cruciani and Lear by Edward Bond, directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and other plays like Chiudi gli occhi (Close Your Eyes Wide Shut), Friendly Feuer, a European Polyphony and many others.
Chiudi gli occhi |
Close Your Eyes Wide Shut
Written & directed by Patrizia Zappa Mulas
Crime news aggressively hits the headlines every day with its offensive reports. A student throws a bottle of sulphuric acid in the face of one of his university friends after she had refused his marriage proposal. He disfigures and blinds her. We are left to digest this violent scene as best we can. The blinded girl appeals to the Shari’a law and she drags her attacker through the courts in Teheran. An eye for an eye, as the Islamic holy law states, yet in this type of law, a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man. The victim holds her own before the judges, she wins the lawsuit and she obtains the right to blind her attacker. She has the right to pour forty drops of sulphuric acid into his eyes.
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Friendly Feuer. A European Polyphony
Dramaturgy, Set Design & directed by Marta Gilmore
An Isola Teatro production
On stage: 28 & 30 April 2016

Venue: Teatro India
During the year of the centenary that celebrates an almost forgotten massacre, we peek out onto the battlefields of the Great War. Friendly Feuer is a show/performance on the relationship between today’s Europe and the one dating back to one hundred years, when World War I broke out. The single events of desertion, war neurosis and suicide are juxtaposed, by contrast, assonance or dissonance, with a precarious, fierce present.
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READING
Emerging Playwrights
A project in collaboration with the UTE.
In context of the CONFLICT ZONES network programme.
10 – 12 June at the Teatro India
The Reading of the Emerging Playwrigths will be held from 10 – 12 June at the Teatro India, the second venue of the Teatro di Roma, as part of the European Conflict Zones programme of the Union des Théâtres de l'Europe. The authors will read from texts, that were developed during a UTE Think Tank for Emerging Playwrights in summer 2015.
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