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Interplay Europe 2006 Festival of Young Playwrights Schaan | Liechtenstein Nenzing | Austria 18–25 June 2006 Interplay Europe 2006 6th Festival of Young European Playwrights is organized by Interplay Europe e.V. (Frankfurt/M.) and ASSITEJ Liechtenstein in cooperation with Festival “Luaga & Losna” in Nenzing/Austria Festival Director: Henning Fangauf Festival Coordinator: Georg Biedermann Festival Secretariat: Eveline Ratering Staff: Alessandra Beiro, Dagmar Tiefenbrunner, Program Austria: Sabine Wöllgens Interplay Europe 2006 6th Festival of Young European Playwrights is sponsored by City of Schaan Country of Liechtenstein Interplay Europe e.V. State of Vorarlberg, Austria City of Nenzing, Austria The German Delegation is supported by Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Berlin. The Hungarian Delegation is supported by Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage. The Slovak Delegation is supported by ASSITEJ Liechtenstein Slovak Theatre Institut, Bratislava. Zollstrasse 10, 9494 Schaan – Lie The Swiss Delegation is supported by [email protected] – www.assitej.li PRO HELVETIA. Member of ASSITEJ International The Slovenian Delegation is supported by Presˇernovo gledalisˇcˇe, Kranj —Presˇeren Theater, Kranj, Slovenia Imprint: Henning Fangauf, Sabine Wöllgens and Georg Biedermann (editing) bimedia (graphic design) BVD Druck+Verlags AG, Schaan (print) WELCOME Welcome to Schaan Dear Participants of Interplay Europe On behalf of the community of Schaan it is with the greatest pleasure that I welcome you to the 6th Festival of Young Playwrights, Interplay Europe 2006. This special event for young European playwrights, organised in different cities and countries of Europe, combines both professional and human aspects. It is an excellent opportunity to build European cultural links very effectively. We are very proud that Interplay 2006 takes place in our community. Schaan is one of the oldest settlements in Liechtenstein. The biggest municipality of the Principality of Liechtenstein has a population of 6000 inhabitants and covers an area of 26.8 km2. Schaan is the industrial and business center of the country and home to the most significant cultural center in the region, namely the Theater on the Kirchplatz (TaK). There we speak the same language as you do— the language of theatre. I wish you all the very best for a successful festival in a great atmosphere. Welcome to Schaan! Daniel Hilti Gemeindevorsteher | 1 | Interplay Europe 2006 | Festival of Young Playwrights WELCOME being a part of it. At last year's World Interplay we had delegates from 14 different countries including Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, South Africa and Iceland. We hope to see you out here next year <worldinterplay.org>. If you can't make that, check out the World Interplay Online Festival. Congratulations to all on the Interplay Europe organising committee, a big thank you to the crew in Liechtenstein for offering their extraordinary country for the Festival, and of course, all my fondest regards for the Chair of Interplay Europe, the very fine Mr Henning Fangauf. All the best, Chris To all of the new members of the Welcome from the Festival Director of Chris Mead is Chair of the Board of Interplay family, Welcome! Interplay Europe 06 World Interplay, Sydney / Australia I regret not being able to join you in the Welcome to the Principality of mountains over in Liechtenstein but my Liechtenstein, welcome to the lovely work duties here at Australia's biggest landscape of the village of Schaan, theatre company are keeping me too busy welcome to the 6th «Interplay Europe to get away, even just for a week - my 06»—Festival of Young Playwrights. desk is piled high with great scripts and On behalf of Interplay Europe e.V. and I've been daily going in to bat for a our hosts, Georg Biedermann and number of new plays by young ASSITEJ Liechtenstein and playwrights, one of them an Interplay «Dramatiker-Börse» in Nenzing / alumnus. Austria, it is with the greatest pleasure Our best wishes go out to you Europeans welcoming you to seven days of intensive from all of us at World Interplay. I am cultural exchange. certain that you will have not only a The finest of Europe's emerging terrific time at Interplay Europe, but that playwrights under the age of 26 will face this experience may well be a life- up to each other. We are welcoming 30 changing one. playwrights and 15 tutors from 16 Having come across to Athens two years European countries to this important, ago not only was I impressed with the biannual meeting. We are proud to Festival itself, but I was overjoyed at the continue with the tradition of Interplay calibre of the writing and the Europe. opportunities the Festival afforded all its When we started in 1995 in Mainz / delegates. Because you only have a week Germany with a small group of 12 young - World Interplay runs for two - I was playwrights from 5 countries no one worried that you could really only scratch expected that this was the starting signal the surface of the work to be done. My of a new invention: the invention of a fears were quickly allayed, however, when cultural exchange between talented I saw just how capable each delegate people for dramatic literature and the was, and how highly skilled the tutors invention of sharing our love to theatre, were. to playwriting and the arts. The idea of And what is particularly of note is that Interplay convinced people and got more with each new Festival, delegates from and more a success. We met in Berlin, in more countries arrive. Because we are so Warszawa, in Pécs (Hungary), in Athens far away in Australia we worry about the and now in Schaan. Year by year with status of World Interplay - can we really more participants, with more reputation say we represent the World? - so it is and more professionalism. We discussed heartening indeed to bring new countries many scripts written by the new into the Interplay world, and we hope generation of European playwrights, we word spreads quickly about the network shared our expectations in the European that you now have access to as a result of culture and we learned a lot from each Interplay Europe 2006 | Festival of Young Playwrights | 2 | WELCOME others roots. In this sense Interplay Europe 2006 is much more than a group of playwrights discussing questions of technique and craft. Globalisation as a fear and a challenge – we should not leave the future of the world only to the economics! We are grateful to our many many supporters, but most particularly my thanks go to the tutors. They have to give a lot for free and their kind of caring for the scripts and dealing with the ideas of the playwrights make Interplay Europe every two years again as a wonder. Henning Fangauf Festival Director Frankfurt am Main, June 2006 The ASSITEJ Liechtenstein is proud to It gives us great pleasure to welcome the welcome all playwrights and tutors from participants of Interplay Europe to our Bulgaria, Croatia, England, Germany, Children`s and Young People`s Theatre Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Festival in Vorarlberg, the most western Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, part of Austria. Switzerland, Turkey in the heart of «Luaga & Losna» is a dialect expression Europe, in Liechtenstein. and can be translated with «look and listen». The festival wants to make it Schaan with the «Theater am possible for the young audience at the Kirchplatz» has got a wonderful countryside to experience international theaterculture, especially for the young theatre groups and their performances. audience. Our small country offers a The village of Nenzing is an unusual variety of culture, nature and history. place for an international festival. But it I hope you can catch a glimpse of it. is a good place to meet, to discuss, to read, to listen to each other’s ideas and Theatres need playwrights. Your are the to have a good look at the children’s and new generation of them. I hope your texts young people`s theatre - and a place bring the audience ideas and impulses to where, since ten years, playwrights from find solutions for a peaceful way of life. Austria, Germany and Switzerland and Stories that show interesting and international theatre groups come important aspects of our world of today. together. We need a lot of fantasy for our future. It is even more unusual and therefore exciting to meet international guests from I wish all participants a wonderful and all over Europe in Nenzing , who come stimulating time in Schaan and Nenzing, together with all their experience, their good inspirations, discussions, interesting cultural traditions and their visions to work, friendship and fun. make another new experience together. Interplay Europe may help that theatre Many big thanks to all people who help and the art of stage will stay alive and to create and support this Interplay that the dramatic art of the different Festival 2006! parts of Europe will be heard and seen and also reflected all over Europe. The «Luaga & Losna Association» wishes Georg Biedermann successful days in Liechtenstein, President ASSITEJ Liechtenstein inspirating exchanges of intercultural Festival-Coordinator knowledgement and new friendships. We hope you will enjoy the two days in Nenzing and in the mountains. In behalf of the «Luaga & Losna Association» Sabine Wöllgens | 3 | Interplay Europe 2006 | Festival of Young Playwrights PROGRAM Sunday, 18.6.2006 12.00 Opening of Festival Office Theater am Kirchplatz up to 16.00 Arrival in Schaan Registration and Check-In Move into accommodation Theater am Kirchplatz 17.00 Tutors Meeting Theater am Kirchplatz 19.00 Official Opening of Interplay Europe 06 Theater am Kirchplatz Welcome Dinner and Party and Park of Stein Egerta Monday, 19.6.2006 09.00—09.30 Warm Up Garden of Kloster St.