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Global Voices Play Submission: Global Indigenous Voices at ORIGINS Festival Global Voices is a theatre project working with international playwrights to share new rehearsed readings. We are joining forces with Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival to present Global Indigenous Voices. Curated by Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet, the evening will feature excerpts from five...

🇪🇺 Missed our post show talk on 'Translating Cultures, Cultures of Translation: Dealing with Culturally Unspecific Plays'🇪🇺

Do plays ‘represent' their language/culture? Can a play operate outside its own language/culture so as to become more transcultural or culturally unspecific? And if so, is the translation of this kind of source less problematic than that of culturally-specific plays?

Catch up here: https://soundcloud.com/user-581016306/translating-cultures-cultures-of-translation-dealing-with-culturally-unspecific-plays

Featuring playwright Aleksa Okanovic with translators Chris Campbell, David Duchin and Jane House

Chaired by Margherita Laera

Translating Cultures, Cultures of Translation: Dealing with Culturally Unspecific Plays Playwright Aleksa Okanovic and theatre translators Chris Campbell, David Duchin and Jane House join Margherita Laera for a conversation on translating cultures for the stage. Do plays ‘represent' the

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Want to find out more about the relationship between the playwright and the director in Europe differs from how it works in UK? 🇪🇺🇬🇧

How do European playwrights conceive of the role of the director when writing their plays? Does this shift when their plays are translated into English and into theatrical cultures where social realism dominates?

Listen to Benjamin Fowler in conversation with playwrights Beniamin Bukowski and Maria Milisavljević and directors Jude Christian and Abigail Graham here: https://www.newplaysfromeurope.com/blog/2019/1/30/beyond-social-realism-directing-european-plays

Beyond Social Realism: Directing European Plays This post-show talk considers the role the director plays in new European playwriting. Director Jude Christian joins Benjamin Fowler for a conversation about postdramatic dramaturgies on the British stage, drawing on her experience of directing Trust, by the German playwright Falk Richter, at T

🇪🇺 Missed our post show talk on 'The Role of the Translator: Translating 'Foreign' Performances Cultures? 🇪🇺

If the play was written for a non-naturalistic theatrical tradition, how can the translator create a text which evokes that non-British performance culture?

Catch up here: https://soundcloud.com/user-581016306/the-role-of-the-translator-translating-foreign-performance-cultures

Featuring playwright Gianina Cărbunariu with translators Natasha Fortescue Oxley and William Gregory. Chaired by Noah Birksted-Breen.

The Role of the Translator: Translating 'Foreign' Performance Cultures This panel considers the role of the translator as cultural mediator. In conversation with Noah Birksted-Breen, translators Natasha Oxley and William Gregory, and the author of Artists Talk will consi

🇫🇮🇪🇺 Meet our final European playwright Finland's Saara Turunen 🇪🇺🇫🇮

Saara Turunen is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author, playwright, and director.

Her plays 'The Bunny Girl' and 'The Broken Heart Story' have garnered brilliant reviews and been translated into 13 languages and performed in several countries. She is known for her bold and direct style and much of her work examines the themes of art, identity and social norms. In addition to her work in theatre Turunen has authored two highly acclaimed novels, 'Love/Monster' (2015) and 'The Bystander' (2018). Her debut novel 'Love/Monster' won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize in 2015. Turunen was also granted with Finland prize in 2016, a high profile award given annually by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.

🌟 Come and see the amazing Olivia Darnley, Joe Eyre, Jenni Jackson, Tessie Orange-Turner and Simon Rhodes in The Phantom of Normality tonight The Yard 🌟

Inspired by Luis Brunel’s film The Phantom of Liberty, The Phantom of Normality is a melodic collage of images gently revealing the absurdity of everyday life in the 21st century. It’s a sharp expose of the weirdness of our habits and traditions and a tribute to the melancholy beauty of our short lives.

Directed by the brilliant Melissa Dunne

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/the-phantom-of-normality/

🌟 Come and see the brilliant Gemma Barnett, Nadia Clifford and Victoria Moseley in Salty Irina tonight at The Yard 🌟

Salty Irina is a love story about the rise of the far right and the power of collective action.

Directed by the amazing Guy Jones.

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/salty-irina/

🇪🇺 What can we learn by reflecting more deeply on what lies beneath the surface of a translated cultural and dramatic text? 🇪🇺

Read Jozefina Komporaly on the work of Transylvanian-Hungarian playwright, dramaturg and theatre maker András Visky: https://www.newplaysfromeurope.com/blog/2019/1/8/rethinking-memory-and-personal-experience

🇪🇺 Discover our final European play 'Salty Irina' 🇪🇺

“it feels for a moment like we can’t be stopped.
It feels like queerness will just sprout and bloom, it feels like anywhere, anywhere – we will win.”

After a series of racist murders in their neighbourhood, Anna and Eireni decide to infiltrate a far-right festival in order to try to identify the culprits. But when the truth of the girls’ relationship is discovered, things get nasty…

Salty Irina is a love story about the rise of the far right and power of collective action.

BOOK HERE: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/salty-irina/

🌟 Come and see the brilliant Natasha Cottriall, Yolanda Kettle, Jodie Mcnee and Kayla Meikle in The Amazing Limbourg Brothers tonight at The Yard 🌟

The Amazing Limbourg Brothers is a 21st century medieval comedy about the nature of death and our obsession with images.

Directed by the amazing Alice Malin

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/the-amazing-limbourg-brothers/

🌟 Come and see the amazing Alex Austin, Rebecca Callard and Gabby Wong in Noise tonight at The Yard 🌟

Noise is a play with a happy ending, in a world that has learnt not to trust in happy endings.

Directed by the brilliant Abigail Graham

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/noise/

🇭🇺🇪🇺How do you translate a story from one culture to another when the context of the story is very specific to the culture it was originally written for?🇪🇺🇭🇺

Read Szilvia Naray-Davey on unseen drama behind translating 'Prime Location': https://www.newplaysfromeurope.com/blog/2019/1/8/the-unseen-drama-behind-translating-prime-location

🇩🇪🇪🇺 Meet our seventh European playwright Germany's Maria Milisavljevic 🇪🇺🇩🇪

Maria Milisavljevic is an award-winning, theatre creator, dramaturg and translator. She is the International playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.

Over the past sixteen years, Maria has worked with various theatres and companies across Germany, Canada, the U.S. and the UK. She is the artistic director of the TheaterTruppe which she founded in 2005. Through the TheaterTruppe she has directed, created and written a lot of her work. Maria’s work includes productions of classics, modern classics and her own plays Annas Fest (2008), hell/warm (2009) and Hero of the Day (2010).

Maria lived in Canada from 2011 to 2015, where she worked as a script reader, script coordinator and assistant director on productions like Hannah Moscovitch’s This is War (assistant director), Joan McLeod’s The Valley (assistant director and production dramaturg) and David Yee’s carried away on the crest of a wave (script coordinator), all at Tarragon Theatre.

Maria's play Brandung won the prestigious 2013 Kleist Promotional Award for Young Dramatists and opened at Deutsches Theater Berlin, where it played in repertory until 2015. Brandung (Engl. title Abyss) has since opened at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, in New York, London, Vienna, and Mexico City. Abyss was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award 2015 in the category 'Outstanding New Play'.

Maria's next play Beben won the German Playwright's Award ('Deutschsprachiger Autorenpreis') at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2016, the Else-Lasker-Schüler Award for Best New Play (Stückepreis) 2016, nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 2018, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stückemarkt at the internationally renowned annual theatre festival Theatertreffen in Berlin. It played at several theatres in Germany, Toronto, and Brasil, and will see its Austrian premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna in January 2019.

Maria's English work Peace River Country opened as part of Tarragon's 2016/17 Season. Her adaptation of the Enemy of the People (with Richard Rose) for Saint John Theatre Company, New Brunswick, went on an international tour to Theater Konstanz, Germany, in January 2017. Her most current work Auf ewig unser Gestern opened at Residenztheater Munich in July 2018.

Maria translates her works into English herself. She has further translated prominent plays like the Schaubühne Berlin’s version of the Enemy of the People, which was part of both Tarragon’s 2015/16 and 2016/17 season or – most recently – Susanna Fournier’s antigone lebt* (English title antigone lives*), as a commission by Residenztheater Munich.

Maria holds a doctoral degree in English. She is further the recipient of a three-year scholarship grant by the Bavarian Ministry for Sciences and the Arts. In 2009, she also received the John McGrath Scholarship in Theatre Studies of the Scottish Universities for Hero of the Day. From 2015 to 2016 she was a member of the playwrights unit "Infiziert!" at Schauspielhaus Wien. In 2018 and 2019 she was part of the international playwrights unit ‘World/ Stage’ at Residenztheater Munich.

🇪🇺 How do you nurture a new generation of theatre translators? 🇪🇺

Find out more about the work of [Foreign Affairs] here: https://www.newplaysfromeurope.com/blog/2018/12/20/contemporary-european-drama-in-translation-on-the-british-stage

🇪🇺 Discover our seventh European play 'The Amazing Brothers Limbourg' 🇪🇺

“Illumination is an inadequate form of discourse. There can be no illustration after Agincourt.”
“The Battle of Agincourt hasn’t happened yet.”
“That’s the reason we’re still drawing.”

The Limbourg Brothers are impoverished medieval freelance creatives. They wanted to start a rock band but ‘The Limbourg Brothers’ is a crap name for rock band so they went into illumination instead.

When they are commissioned to create ‘A Very Rich Book of Hours’ for the Duc de Berry, it looks like their careers might finally be about to take off. But if you live in a world where the Black Death is lurking around every corner, success is never as certain as it seems …

The Amazing Limbourg Brothers is a 21st century medieval comedy about the nature of death and our obsession with images.

BOOK HERE: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/the-amazing-limbourg-brothers/

🌟 Come and see the amazing Aysha Kala, Maggie McCarthy, Victoria Moseley, Irfan Shamji and Milo Twomey in The Neighbours tonight The Yard 🌟

The Neighbours is an unsettling domestic drama exploring our anxieties about newcomers in a Europe struggling to cope with the migrant crisis.

Directed by the brilliant Guy Jones

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/the-neighbours/

🌟 Come and see the brilliant Jenni Jackson and Joe Eyre in The Drive tonight The Yard 🌟

The Drive is an adrenalin-fuelled neoliberal comedy about the ways in which the madness of capitalism tears us apart.

Directed by the amazing Melissa Dunne

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/the-drive/

🇵🇱🇪🇺 Are Polish plays too Polish for UK audiences? 🇪🇺🇵🇱

Read Natasha Oxley on the possible reasons for the lack of Polish plays on the British stages: https://www.newplaysfromeurope.com/blog/2018/12/21/polish-plays-on-the-british-stage

🇮🇹🇪🇺 Meet our sixth European playwright Italy's Fausto Paravidino 🇪🇺🇮🇹

Fausto Paravidino started his professional career on stage in 1990, as part of the company "La Soffitta". He made his film debut in 1999, appearing in Pupi Avati's La via degli angeli.

In 2000 and 2002 his plays Peanuts and Genoa 01 were represented at the Royal National Theatre and Royal Court Theatre in London. In 2004 he won the Vittorio Gassman Prize for the drama play Natura morta in un fosso.

Paravidino made his directorial film debut in 2005 with Texas, which was screened in the Horizons section at the 62nd edition of the Venice Film Festival and got him a Pasinetti Award. For this film he was also nominated for David di Donatello for Best New Director and for Nastro d'Argento in the same category and for Best Original Story.

Paravidino was the eighth Italian author to be presented at the Comédie-Française in Paris, with the play La malattia della famiglia M which he also directed. Other of his works were adapted in German and presented in various theatres, including at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin. In 2017 he was appointed Resident Dramaturg at the Teatro Stabile in Turin.

🌟 Come and see the brilliant Michael Ajao, Alex Austin, Rebecca Callard, Tom Goodman-Hill and Gabby Wong in George Kaplan tonight The Yard 🌟

George Kaplan is a play about the political stakes involved in myths and narratives, Hollywood’s influence on geopolitics, Alfred Hitchcock’s participation in an international plot and a chicken that could save humanity.

Directed by the amazing Abigail Graham

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/george-kaplan/

🌟 Come and see the amazing Harry Attwell, Sean Jackson, Cora Kirk, Wendy Kweh and Francesca Zoutewelle in Artists Talk tonight The Yard 🌟

Artists Talk is a is a chilling and darkly comic ‘mockumentary’ play that explores our responsibility as artists in these troubled times.

Directed by the brilliant Alice Malin

Book Here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/artists-talk/

🤔🇪🇺 Did you know that European plays make up less that 1% of theatre programmes in the UK? 🇪🇺🤔

Are theatre audiences just not interesting in seeing European work?

Or are there other barriers to getting European work on UK stages?

Come and find out more at our conference on 'Contemporary European Drama in Translation on the British Stage' at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama next Friday and Saturday.

Featuring speakers including: Chris Campbell (Translator, former Literary Manager Royal Court, Senior Editor Oberon Books); Lyn Gardner (Theatre Critic); Andrew Haydon (Theatre Critic); Eve Leigh (UK Playwright); Simon Stokes (Artistic Director, Theatre Royal Playmouth; Sarah Thom (Gob Squad); and Matthew Xia (Artistic Director, ATC).

Tickets: £26.15/£32.54 inc. lunch, refreshments and a wine reception

BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference-contemporary-european-drama-in-translation-on-the-british-stage-tickets-53291181358

🇪🇺 Discover our sixth European play 'The Drive' 🇪🇺

“Morality. Do you even know what that means, Roland? It’s an illusion! When people say they’ve got a moral code, they aren’t admitting the hidden rewards they’re actually trying to get by having one!”

Clair and Roland finally manage to get on the housing ladder when another couple default on their mortgage. Clair is exhilarated by the chance to build the life she’s always dreamed of. Roland is haunted by the fact they’re building their bright new future on the basis of other people's misery.

The Drive is an adrenalin-fuelled neoliberal comedy about the ways in which the madness of capitalism tears us apart.

BOOK HERE: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/the-drive/

🇫🇷🇪🇺 Meet our fifth European playwright France's Frederic Sonntag 🇪🇺🇫🇷

Frederic is a playwright and director.

He created the theatre company AsaNIsiMAsa after graduating from the Conservatoire National Superior D'Art Dramatique. He has written and directed over ten plays and has just finished his Fantom Trilogy which includes the play in our festival (2013), Benjamin Walter (2015) and B. Traven (2018), a cycle in which fantom characters investigate the concept of identity and the narrative of political issues throughout the 20th century until the present day.

Frederic is currently working on the development of performances and short plays related to the mythology of pop culture such as Atomic Alert and Beautiful Losers. His plays have been published by Theatre Ouvert/ Tapuscrits, l'Avant -Scene Theatre and the Editions Theatres. They have been translated into several languages and performed in several countries.

🤔 Are you worried about what the future of European theatre might be in the UK after Brexit?
Or of British theatre in Europe? 🤔

🇬🇧🇪🇺Or are you an EU artist working in the UK or a UK artist working in EU and worried about what Brexit might mean for you?🇪🇺🇬🇧

💡Or do you have some answers to what the future might hold?💡

If so, we'd love to invite you join us at the Yard Theatre at 7.15pm on Wednesday 9 January to think about the issues facing us all and hopefully come up with a few solutions ...

This is an D&D Ally open space event.

Tickets: Free

Reserve your place here: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/open-space-2/

🇪🇺 Discover our fifth European play 'Artists Talk' 🇪🇺

“I don’t want to be judged for my political sympathies, I want to be judged for my work as an artist.”

Europe is in crisis. Migrants are flooding our borders and the far right is on the rise again. How should artists respond to these issues? What is the correct way to support those who are suffering? How do we identify and challenge extremist views?

Artists Talk is a chilling and darkly comic 'mockumentary' play that explores our responsibility as artists in these troubled times.

BOOK HERE: https://theyardtheatre.co.uk/theatre/events/brexit-stage-left/artists-talk