Season 2018/2019 ENGAGE — The international programme for European theatres Our Stage Young Europe Diversity in Festival 2019 III Action — — — ETC Member Theatres* Contents — — Albania Macedonia 5 Editorial by Heidi Wiley & Serge Rangoni Albanian National Theatre (Tirana) Macedonian National Theatre (Skopje) — — — Austria Norway Landestheater Linz Det Norske Teatret (Oslo) Artistic Theatre Collaborations Schauspielhaus Graz — 7 Young Europe III – — Romania Critical Thinking through Theatre Belgium Romanian National Theatre "Marin Sorescu" (Craiova) 10 Our Stage – Théâtre de Liège Romanian National Theatre (Timisoara) Participatory Theatre — — 14 European Theatre Lab – Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Theatre in the Digital Age Kamerni Teatar 55 (Sarajevo) Serbian National Theatre (Belgrade) MESS Festival (Sarajevo) — — — Slovakia Croatia Slovak National Theatre (Bratislava) International Professional Development Croatian National Theatre (Zagreb) — 17 ETC International Theatre Conferences — Slovenia 18 European Theatre Academy Finland Slovenian National Theatre (Nova Gorica) 19 Artist Residency Programme Helsinki City Theatre — 20 Theatre is Dialogue – Dialogue of Cultures — The Netherlands 22 ETC Mobility: France De Toneelmakerij (Amsterdam) Staff Exchange and Performance Exchange CDN Nancy Lorraine - Théâtre de la Manufacture — 23 Professional training programme — United Kingdom Georgia Belarus Free Theatre (London) — Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre (Tbilisi) — — Turkey Advocacy Germany Turkish State Theatres (Ankara) 25 ETC Roadshow – Deutsches Theater Berlin — Performing Arts Market in Seoul Staatstheater Braunschweig 26 On Stage 2018 – Theater Dortmund ETC Associate Members European Year of Cultural Heritage Staatsschauspiel Dresden Theater & Orchester Heidelberg Italy — Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Cantieri Teatrali Koreja (Lecce) Schauspiel Leipzig — 28 Highlights from the European Stage Theater Magdeburg Malta — Teatru Malta (Iż-Żejtun) — Hungary — Pesti Magyar Theatre (Budapest) Ukraine 38 About ETC Weöres Sándor Színház (Szombathely) CCA “DAKH” and Gogolfest (Kiev) 39 Join us! — Kiev Academic “Molody” Theatre 43 ETC Calendar 2018/2019 Israel — Gesher Theatre (Tel Aviv) — Images from top to bottom: — ETC Honorary Members Idiomatic/Dub It: One Voice, Many Languages Italy premiere in Romanian National Theatre “Marin Sorescu” Craiova/Romania. ©Albert Dobrin Teatro Stabile di Genova Christa Müller (Berlin) — Teatro Stabile di Torino Ola E. B (Oslo) Participatory theatre performance Meine Akte, Staatsschauspiel Dresden/Germany. Fondazione Teatro Due (Parma) — © Sebastian Hoppe — — Stage Your City premiere in Luxembourg Staatstheater Karlsruhe/Germany. © Tom Kohler — Théâtre d’Esch ETC International Theatre Conference in Det Norske Teatret, June 2018, Oslo/Norway. Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg *Membership as of September 2018 © Siren Hoyland — Editorial — Error, the art of imperfection. The ability and the right to 2018 is the European Year of Culture Heritage: a reason fail, to make mistakes, to try again and to have the freedom for us to put the spotlight on well-known European to do so, is a crucial source for new ideas and creative classics as well as contemporary plays – the future opportunities. To advance our thinking, to improve our classics – for audiences to enjoy via the online calendar social environment, to create our future. This year’s theme OnStage2018. eu. The promotion and circulation of of the Ars Electronica Festival, one of the world’s largest European theatre will be another important focus in Seoul gatherings for art, technology and society, sets the tone for in October this year, where ETC Member Theatres will ETC’s second season of ENGAGE. Right at the festival’s represent Europe’s rich and diverse theatre programme at centre, in the Sky Loft above the river Danube, we will Asia’s most important performing arts market, the PAMS. be kicking off the 2018/19 season with the second Digital Theatre Network Meeting and releasing the first ETC Join us during the second year of ETC’s ENGAGE, the casebook on new theatre practices starting with digital international programme for European theatres, and meet theatre for the creative community and a white paper with us at our conferences, workshops, academy, residencies suggestions for policymakers. or performances across Europe. We thank the European Commission who joined forces with us as a strategic The art of imperfection. Europe is a perfect example of it, cultural network and without whose support our work says Robert Viola, the director general of the European would not be possible. Let’s connect, network and Commission DG Connect. It is definitely not perfect, but it collaborate for theatre to be recognised as an important art allows us to live in peace in an open and inclusive society. form for making Europe a little less imperfect. This is a human achievement, but also the result of errors by humans in the past. We must stand up to rising fascist movements in our cities and the discrimination of people who are considered “imperfect” by the growing right-wing. As theatre-makers we use the power of words, the power of artistic and dramatic expression, our languages, to advance critical thinking based on democratic values, and to offer multiple perspectives that help us better reflect on Heidi Wiley and Serge Rangoni and understand the complex world we live in. ETC Executive Director and ETC President Art. Theatre is about collaboration and sharing. Working together internationally and sharing with each other is key to the success of what we do. We want to advance theatre- making and offer it to wider audiences in our diverse societies. A major highlight of this ETC season will be the Our Stage Festival in May 2019, with performances and a discursive programme on participatory theatre formats in Europe. These participatory formats empower today’s audiences to bring their stories and voices onstage in their city! Questions of identity are also at the heart of ETC’s Young Europe flagship project. This season, nine ETC Member Theatres are busy developing new performative research theatre formats and co-productions for young audiences, creating thus a new sort of contemporary repertory theatre. 15:15, co-creation for Young Europe II between Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri (Helsinki/Finland) and Theater an der Parkaue (Berlin/Germany). © Marko Mäkinen 5 Young Europe III — ETC's youth theatre programme continues We met Paulien Geerlings at the first Young Europe We split the theatres into three groups. The first group Festival in Strasbourg in 2010, which was part of the is made up of De Toneelmakerij (Amsterdam, The ambitious artistic education flagship project Young Netherlands), Deutsches Theater (Berlin, Germany) and Europe. Geerlings is dramaturge at De Toneelmakerij, the Weöres Sándor Színház (Szombathely, Hungary); the leading Dutch theatre company for children, teenagers second group comprises Staatstheater Braunschweig and “the adults in their lives”. De Toneelmakerij, just as (Braunschweig, Germany), Theater Magdeburg the other project partners of Young Europe, have youth (Magdeburg, Germany) and National Theatre “Marin audiences at core of their activities. Sorescu” (Craiova, Romania); and the third group consists of the Slovak National Theatre (Bratislava, Division, nationalism, inequity… Today’s Europe is at Slovakia), Pesti Magyar Színház (Budapest, Hungary) and stake. What are the realities and perspectives of young Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany). Artistic Theatre Europeans? How can we engage the youth of Europe to actively shape their future? How can we encourage critical We kicked off the project with all the partners thinking amongst this audience of tomorrow? The project together, discussing which topics were most urgent and Young Europe III kicked off in January 2018 and will go on relevant for the European youth, such as nationalism, until 2020. It was thus the perfect occasion for us to sit poverty, societal injustice, new technologies and the Collaborations down with Paulien Geerlings and talk about this project environmental crisis. We also had a workshop session which she holds close to her heart. with the Dutch-based international research agency Motivaction (www.motivaction.nl) to get an insight into — the drives, values and lifestyles of European youngsters. “We have confidence After that, the collaboration in the smaller groups began. The Braunschweig-Magdeburg-Craiova group is in the flexibility tackling the issue of growing nationalism and working on a game/performance set in the future in which the and imagination of our audience will have an active role. The Amsterdam- Berlin-Szombathely group is focusing on the subject of audiences.” rage, asking themselves if there is a common source for the many expressions of rage throughout Europe. The — Bratislava-Budapest-Karlsruhe group is most interested in the psychological aspects of growing up in today’s world. At this time, the project is in the research phase ETC’s latest edition of Young Europe sets out to create new and playwrights will be engaged in the next couple of theatre performances for teenagers based on performative months. Eventually, the productions will come together research dealing with identity. What will the project scope at the Young Europe Festival in the spring of 2020 in within such a huge topic be? Why work with nine theatres Graz. from five countries? Can you describe your research approach as a theatre The third