ITALY / 2022
Nalini Vidoolah Mootoosamy – Lost&Found
This text excerpt proposed by PAV was selected by the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
Lost&Found is a play on the right to freedom of movement. A right that often becomes a privilege based on “who we are” and “where we come from”. On one side, we follow the story of two tourists (A and B) who, thanks to the privilege of their European passports, can move more freely in non-European countries and visit places they consider to be their “dream places”. On the other hand, we witness the misadventures of X, a migrant without the right documents, to reach and stay in his “dream place”: the European fortress.
DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYSLOVENIA / 2019
Simona Hamer – Everything OK
The text proposed by Slovensko Narodno Gledalisce Nova Gorica / Slovenia was selected by the ETC Drama Committee in 2022
Everything OK, by Slovenian playwright Simona Hamer, explores the topics of (un)employment, (im)migration, discrimination and racism, patriarchy, mental health, ageism, and loneliness through three intertwined storylines. The author explains: “For me, the play Everything OK is an x-ray of all the broken bones of today’s society and an invitation to recovery.”
DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYTHE NETHERLANDS / 2020
Abdelkader Benali – Hamlet
The play was proposed by De Toneelmakerij / The Netherlands for the ETC Drama Committee
Abdelkader Benali and dramaturg Paulien Geerlings situated 'the ultimate revenge tragedy' within the context of a (fictionalized) highly-segregated neighbourhood in Amsterdam New-West, where the local people are juxtaposed against the real estate elite.
Shakespeare's classic was thereby interwoven with the modern world of influencers, climate critics and criminal money. The text, however, closely follows the dramaturgy and plot development of the original. Hamlet returns from his private school, to his old migrant neighborhood and finds himself in a new world. The streets of his childhood have been swept away by the world of money. Values have been replaced by status. His father has ‘disappeared’ and his mother has remarried his uncle. An enormous construction site makes up the physical centre of this polarized environment and social housing has to make way for a sky-high luxury building for the rich and famous which his uncle is building. In doing so, he will only further widen the gap between people of different classes and cultures.
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DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYAUSTRIA / 2019
Martin Plattner – rand: ständig
The text was proposed by Landestheater Linz / Austria for the ETC Drama Committee
Austria, a small town in the Tyrolean Alps, winter sports area: the scene is a district where no building was done in the past because avalanches regularly occur here on the edge of town. A few years ago, however, the city government decided to build here after all: social housing. The socially disadvantaged, the marginalized, were relocated to this newly created edge of town. The actual reason for the relocation is tourism, in the center of the village space should be created for more hotels, parking spaces, and to remove the socially disadvantaged from the tourists' field of vision. But now it has happened again: Crescentia, as the avalanche that descends on this slope is called from time immemorial, has gone off again. It buried the new buildings and the people living in them. Also some ski tourists. But it is precisely these marginalized people who now crawl out of the avalanche cone and become aware of their unfortunate situation.
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DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYSLOVENIA / 2020
Simona Semenič – Beautiful Vidas Burn Beautifully
The play was proposed by Prešernovo Gledališče Kranj / Slovenia for the ETC Drama Committee
A play about historically significant and historically less significant women who have been persecuted for being different. Or just for being a female. A witch-hunt through the centuries is transmitted to a metaphorical level as the play deals with women as Joanna the Mad, Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, and other historically recognized women, but also with unnamed women, all of whom were victims of the patriarchal society in the past. The play is intertwining historical facts and figures with the present time inequality issues. The form of the plays is inventive, it's based on pagan rituals and combined with methods of contemporary playwriting.
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