Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe is a winning project of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and aims to promote contemporary drama, translators, playwrights and their texts with the help of theatrical institutions from Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Romania.
“Fabulamundi Workbook: Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation in Europe. A Report on Current Systems, Conventions and Perceptions“
By Margherita Laera, University of Kent
A contemporary family, a motley reconstituted family : grandparents, grandchildren, the rejects of separated spouses still grafted onto the family tree, and a son, Jean, middle manager, the center of this constellation, who supports everyone’s needs as best he can. But Jean, frugal and depressed fifty-something, just switched doctors…
Theatre is a hands-on art that is constructed collectively. It is a meeting place where terribly ephemeral elements converge with very archaic echoes.
Among Germans
A foreign man with a beard. A young dark-haired woman with a German passport. A lonely neighbour who only means well. A sad old woman who transforms her fear into anger one last time.
A son returns home to face a difficult situation, and his arrival sets in motion the family mechanisms that have always been jammed. Mother, father, grandmother, uncle…
An hour before the doors open of the ruinous multi-purpose venue where they are performing tonight, Santi and Rosó will discover that they don’t like music…
Gardenia tells the story of four generations of Polish women from the same family who are fighting with their schemas, convictions and heritage…
We are in 2056, in a world that perhaps has no boundaries. There have been traumatic events of great historical importance that led to the formation of the United States of Europe.
The action is set at an indeterminate time in the future at the UN headquarters, where representatives of the Republic of Malvati, whose territory has almost disappeared due to climate change…
