Sunday, 25th of February 2024, the second long-time writing workshop started as part of the fourth edition, New Voices, of the European project Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe. Entitled Fears of the present and future. Dramaturgies for a possible world, the workshop will take place between 25th of February and 17th of April 2024 and is coordinated by playwright Mihaela Michailov.
The participants are students of the “George Coșbuc” Bilingual National College, aged between 16 and 18. The workshop will focus on writing exercises and spoken poetry on themes related to identity, competition and pressure, reporting to the future.
The outcome of Workshop #2 will be staged in the Studio Hall on Wednesday, 17th of April, at 7:00 p.m. Free entrance, subject to availability.
Czech playwright David Košťák will join Mihaela Michailov in the conduction of the workshop.
Fabulamundi – New Voices is the new edition of a successful history of cultural promotion in the name of European values and heritage, which aims to bring contemporary playwriting closer to the younger generations. The first workshop (Fragility. How we write our personal stories, November 6 – December 13, 2023) Odeon Theatre organised in this new edition was dedicated to emerging playwrights – students and alumni of the National University of Drama and Cinematography in Bucharest.
Fabulamundi will innovate European playwriting by developing and testing a new methodology to create and train a new generation of playwrights, putting dramaturgy into the spotlight, removing the barriers to the profession and integrating digital tools and results in the creation process.
The methodology will be tested in 9 countries and implemented by a consortium of 14 organisations active in the field of theatre and dramaturgy, located in all the European regions (including the Western Balkans). It will also be assessed and disseminated by Culture Action Europe and European Theatre Convention, which will ensure its wide international outreach.
In the three previous editions of Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe Odeon Theatre made fourteen reading performances, in the presence of the authors, and three productions based on writings of all the participating countries. The plays, translated into Romanian, were published in 2015, 2016 and 2020 in the volumes “Contemporary Italian Dramaturgy” and “Contemporary European Dramaturgy”, volumes I and II, published by Cheiron publishing house and the “Camil Petrescu” Cultural Foundation.
Currently, Odeon Theatre, a partner since the pilot-edition, has in its repertoire a show made within the project in 2018, GARDENIA by Elżbieta Chowaniec, directed by Zoltán Balázs (Hungary).
