Participants
Academy of Peforming Arts, Theatre Faculty
The Theatre Faculty was established as a part of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in October 1945. It offers education leading to a university degree for the vast majority of professions connected to the dramatic arts. The school strives for variety when offering learning programmes and tries to use and develop all the topics on which Czech theatre has striven to work for a long time. There are 19 courses at the Theatre Faculty, which are divided into the following 7 departments: d. of Dramatic Theatre, d. of Alternative and Puppet Theatre, d. of Stage Design, d. of Theory and Criticism, d. of Authorship and Pedagogy, d. of Arts Management, d. of Drama in Education. Students of Art Management also organize the festival "Zlomvaz" every year, where students of Theatre Faculty JAMU Brno and VŠMU Bratislava participate.
www.damu.cz
Ondrej Spišák et al.:
The Creation
Directing: Ondrej Spišák et al.
Dramaturgy: Kristýna Filcíková, Vít Neznal
Set and costumes: Marianna Stránská
Music participation: Jan Hrovatitsch, Vratislav Šrámek
Production: Dáša Brtnická, Eva Burešová, Tomáš Jirka
Cast: Tomáš Běhal, Štěpánka Glogarová, Milan Hajn, Zuzana Hodková, Jana Kollertová, Adam Kubišta, Tomáš Podrazil, Anička Suchánková, Johana Vapousová, Elena Volpi
Lenght of performance: 120 min.
Language of performance: Czech
The performance "Creation" is a self-penned work, the product of knowledge acquired by this specific group of innovators about the creation of the world and how they came to their own view. The performance tries to peep into the plurality of human myth and show that somewhere in their essence all are alike. Can there truly be only one correct answer to the question: why are we here? "We took as our starting point a smorgasbord of some 50 of the world's creation myths," says dramaturgist Kristýna Filcíková. "We began to rehearse in a workshop style, led by Marianna Stránská, Šimon Spišák and myself. We played with each single story, we rolled it around and examined it from a variety of angles. We were trying to explore the cultural backgrounds of the nations telling these stories. We looked into some of their nation dancing and rituals. It was a very special way of rehearsing. A unique one, I think, especially for our school. Ondrej put together the final form of the performance from the material which we had gathered."
Tue 6. 4. – 15.30
Tue 6. 4. – 19.30
Goose on the String Theatre
College of Performing Arts, Theatre Faculty
The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava was founded in 1949 and soon became a training centre for young artists in theatre, music, film and TV. Since its foundation it has gone through many changes. At present it is divided into three faculties: Music and Dance, Theatre, and Film and Television. The Theatre Faculty offers theoretical and practical education in acting, directing, dramaturgy, theatre science, stage design and puppetry. The faculty staff is remarkable personalities active in both art and science; the majority of them are artists from The Slovak National Theatre that shape the artistic grounds of Slovak theatre. The faculty has also gained international renown due to organizing an international festival project called Istropolitana, which has been going since 1977.
www.vsmu.sk
Franz Kafka, Ján Mikuš:
The Castle
Directing: Ján Mikuš
Dramaturgy: Jana Hanzelová /as a guest/
Set and costumes: Ivana Pečarková
Music: Ján Mikuš
Production: Tomáš Bepadik, Lenka Bartošíková, Denisa Chlepčoková
Cast: Peter Havasi, Mara Mayinga N´gueve, Miroslav Dacho, Mara Lukama, Karol Mišovic
Length of performance: 90 min.
Language of performance: Slovak
The castle assigned to the man named KA the function of surveyor. The castle, however, has no need of a surveyor. The man named KA is visited by two helpers, his old supporters. But these helpers don't have any surveying instruments and KA has never seen them. A man by the name of KA receives letters from the castle, stating he carries out his work of surveyor well. But he did not even use a single surveying instrument.
This dramatization of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel tells the story of a big joke, records the bizarre journey of the surveyor KA to the castle - a journey full of half-truths, lies, turned up women's skirts and the grinning masks of the inhabitants of the village Castle.
Tue 6. 4. – 16.30
Tue 6. 4. – 19.30
Theatre Studio Marta
The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School
The National Film School was founded in Łódź in 1948. The State School of Drama, whose first director was Leon Schiller was founded three years before that. These two schools merged into The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School.
Amongst the first students were several renowned directors: Andrzej Munk, Andrzej Wajda, Janusz Morgenstern, who at the end of the Fifties became famous as the founders of the "Polish School".
The teaching program has always consisted of three parts: Theoretical, Technological and Practical, consisting of exercises and films made by both directors and camera students. Practical work has always been considered to be the most important aspect of the teaching programme. The education of directing and camera students is designed to be a meaningful and co-operative experience between lecturers and students.
The school organizes numerous screenings in Poland and abroad, as well as symposiums and conferences on film.
www.filmschool.lodz.pl
Izaak Babel:
Sunset
Directing: Mariusz Grzegorzek
Set and costumes: Kamila Grzybowska
Production: Teatr Studyjny PWSFTVIT
Cast: Andrzej Niemyt, Zofia Zoo, Marcin Włodarski, Marek Nędza, Agnieszka Żulewska, Michał Napiątek, Michał Jaros, Paweł Poczesny, Iwona Karlicka, Anna Sandwicz, Jan Marcinowski, Małgorzata Kocik, Michał Sękiewicz, Iwona Karlicka
Length of performance: 105 min.
Language of performance: Polish
The play, “Sunset”, is set in the early 20th Century in Moldavanka, a ghetto of Odessa, where old Mendel Krzyk falls in love with a young girl to the annoyance of his sons and heirs.
Translator Jerzy Pomianowski asserts that Sunset “seems to be the work of a true genius” and “belongs undoubtedly to the masterpieces of stage literature”. What is most striking about the action, conflicts and characters is their clarity. There`s no track of atmosphere of ‘family-drama’ genre. It surpasses all the works of this kind I know”.
“Sunset” is a splendid parade of characters, expanding a cornucopia of dichotomy – old and young, bounders and saints, peddlers, people of business and dregs of the underworld.
Thu 8. 4. – 13.30
Thu 8. 4. – 16.30
HaDivadlo Theatre
Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Artes, Departamento de Teatro
Through the years, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Antioquia has become one of the leading centers for the study, production, preservation and dissemination of the disciplines of Music, the Performing Arts and Visual Arts. The history of the college comprises developments and events that have been closely tied to the cultural life of Medellin and Antioquia.
Since August 21, 1980 the Faculty of Arts has established itself as a major art center, where are gathered students and teachers with high professional and academic standards.
The Faculty consists of three Academic Departments: Music, Visual Arts and Theatre. The Faculty has several research groups doing development work which are:
- Group Theory and History of Art in Colombia
- Seed Group for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts (SIFA)
- Seed Research Group Theatre (SITE).
www.udea.edu.co
Susana Torres Molina:
Anything between the Teeht
Directing/ Professor: Mario Wilson Bustamante
Dramaturgy: Susana Torres Molina
Set: pedagogical process
Actor: Mario Wilson Bustamante
Length of performance: 45 min.
Language of performance: Spanish
Man/he regularly conveys and records "right now" - "present time".
But he makes a false step and his recording turns into revelation of an uncertain future.
He wishes to run away into his memories...
Anxiety, discomposure, fear and longing for sand beach...almost white....
Wed 7. 4. – 16.00
HaDivadlo Theatre
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Degree Programme in Performing Arts
The Degree Programme in Performing Arts trains Drama Instructors in Drama Studies (Bachelor's degree) and Bachelors of Culture and Arts in Theatre and Performance Technology Studies. A Bachelor's Degree in Drama studies takes four years to complete, consisting of 240 credit points, with the students graduating as Drama Instructors. The teaching takes place in Hämeentie 161, 00560 Helsinki, Finland. Head of Department is Sussa Lavonen. Our drama instructors are versatile drama experts who focus on different aspects of theatrical work: script-writing, directing and acting. The degree covers both traditions and new practices of theatrical work. However, the use of applied drama is at the heart of the degree programme. This means our students are trained in various aspects of directing and they learn to use drama as a tool in different contexts, such as education, wellbeing, social welfare and health care, as well as community activities. The degree programme provides the students with skills and methods for working with groups from various backgrounds both within and outside traditional theatre organisations.
www.metropolia.fi/en/studies/culture/performing-arts/
Silja Kauppinen:
PUU, a tree
Directing: Silja Kauppinen
Dramaturgy: Silja Kauppinen
Set: Silja Kauppinen and others
Costumes: Leila Hakkarainen
Music: Maria Baric
Cast: Jani Hendriksson, Erja Jokinen, Silja Kauppinen
Length of performance: 90 min.
Language of performance: Non-verbal
Human life is trapped around a tree – or other way around ? Three lonely people. For one of them the tree has a function as a material and as a source of income. The other one sees the tree as an enigma. For the third one the tree is a decorative object. And these three people are trying to find a solution to their loneliness. Perhaps a tree could provide an answer. PUU is a tricky exploration in a spirit of joy and gloominess. A play with metamorphosis and varying perspective. PUU has a target: spectator's imagination. The aim is to awaken it and sensitize it. The magic of the performance is based on the distinctive scenes: the ones you can sense with your ears and eyes. Aesthetically PUU is minimalistic. There are influences from object theatre. Music plays a significant part, though of the story telling. NO LANGUAGE BARRIER!
Wed 7. 4. – 20.00
Thu 8. 4. – 10.00
Theatre Studio Marta
Reduta-Berlin The Theatre and Film Acting School
Reduta-Berlin has existed since 1983. The school is a state-approved, private school. In the School only acting for theatre and film are taught. The education is for 3.5 years. The Grotowski Method for teaching acting is employed, which means: body training, breath training, etudes and improvisation. There are 45 students. Other elements of education are: dance, acrobatic, rhythm, language, camera acting and history of theatre. The Presentations of Performances are an important part of the course. Participation of Festivals: International Festival of Theatre Schools in Lodz (Poland), Competition of the Acting Faculties performances in the Framework of the XXVII VGIK International Students festival in Moscow, Olomouc, Wien, etc. The school is run by Teresa Nawrot and has existed under various names (Nawrot-REDUTA 1983 – 1995; REDUTA Berlin 1995 – till now). It is the training center for actors, which employs training method, drama techniques and the philosophy of the Grotowski Theater – Laboratory along with Stanislawski and Strasberg. REDUTA Graduates work for such renowned theatres as: Berliner Ensemble and Schaubühne, Magdeburg, Hannover, Zürich and Frankfurt a. M.
www.reduta-berlin.de
Euripides:
Orestes
Directing: Peter Wittig
Set and costumes: Peter Wittig, kolektiv
Cast: Lisa Blaschke, Malin Dodin, Mandy Feil, Sarah Graf, Fenja Langholf, Valentina Luski, Veronica Naujoks, Amarilis Pena Medina, Nicole Rehfeld, Nadya Wittkopf, Ian Hansen, Mathias, Steinbach
Length of performance: 90 min.
Language of performance: German
According to the understanding of politicians, terrorists are always the "others". From the point of view of Euripides, in his drama ORESTES, the terrorists are the Establishment: Orestes, crown prince of Mykenai; Pylades, his battle companion; Elektra, his sister, princess of Mykenai. Euripides, as well as his colleagues Aischylos and Sophokles, based their work upon the old myths. Orestes: the matricide through divine command. Euripides invents, as opposed to Aischylos and Sophokles, with the population of the myths’ own stories. He confronts the Royals Orestes and Elektra with their citizens: they are put on trial. Tyndareos her grandfather, serves the court as an agitator. Menelaos, her uncle, already sees himself on the Mykenian throne. Orestes and Elektra fight for survival, by any means necessary.
Wed 7. 4. – 13.00
Bolek Polívka Theatre
King’s College London (The School of Arts & Humanities,Theatre and Performance Department)
King’s College London is one of London’s best universities and is ranked 12 at ‘Good University Guide’ by The Times (TimesOnline). It is a multi-faculty research based university of over 19,700 students.
The School of Arts & Humanities at King’s has consistently been rated one of the top faculties of its kind by TheTimes Higher-QS World University Rankings. It enjoys unrivalled connections to world-class arts organisations and institutions, including the British Museum, Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the National Portrait Gallery and the British Library.
www.kcl.ac.uk
Christopher Marlowe:
Weak Edward
Directing: Constanza Hola
Dramaturgy: Constanza Hola
Production: Jhelum Gosalia
Cast: Sebastián Concha, Cristián Almarza, Priscilla Lai, Javiera Favre, Charlotte Allen, Christos Charitou, Trinidad Squella /Constanza Hola
Length of performance: 90 min
Language of performance: English
The first night on festival SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER 2010 !
Was ever king thus overruled as I?‘ Edward II asks this question faced to his destiny. ‘Probably no‘ is the answer.
Weak Edward is a modern performance about the old tragedy of Edward II, king of England at the beginning of the 14th century. This is the story of a king with strange habits, who loved his dearest friend Gaveston more than his queen or his country, and who had to pay the social cost of his affaire.
For this version, Marlowe’s classical play has been adapted with a flash-back aesthetic which works with the trip of the main characters (Edward II, Gaveston, Queen Isabella and Mortimer) through their fate –wheel of fortune- and explores the power and social struggles in the play.
In this version the lords are ladies in lovely dresses who are so ashamed because of this weak king that they are willing to do whatever they (or their husbands) can to restore order in the kingdom. It is not a soft version. Just like the original play, it works with violence and uses cruelty as an element. Although it is explicit and direct, it contains subtle criticisms and uses irony as one of its main tools.
Thu 8. 4. – 14.00
Thu 8. 4. – 17.00
Goose on the String Theatre
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
With more than 2,000 students in Graz and Oberschützen, the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) is an internationally renowned place of education - 17 institutes and 2 doctoral schools offer highly qualified training for artistic and scientific professions. Owing to its geographic situation it knows how to combine perfectly Austrian tradition in music and performing arts with the creative potential of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. With its consequently realized leitmotif, i.e. “Open for the New by Tradition”, its focus on contemporary arts and its really unique living symbiosis between the arts and science, KUG has been able to shape its profile among universities in Europe. KUG sees itself not only as a place of education but also as a promoter of the arts.
Every year, students perform in more than 800 events ranging from in-class presentations, drama performances, jazz, chamber music, and orchestra concerts to operas. Consequently, KUG has established itself as a vivid part of cultural life in Graz.
www.kug.ac.at
Aristophanes:
THE ASSEMBLYWOMEN
Directing: Cornelia Crombholz
Dramaturgy: Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner
Set: Marlen von Heydenaber
Costumes: Marlen von Heydenaber
Music: Vesna Petkovid (Vocal), Sašenko Prolid (Bass), Vanja Kevrešan (Gitarre)
Cast: Michaela Klamminger, Elena Schwarz, Anna Rausch, Ingrid Stein, Mathias Spaan, Nils Bartling, Jürgen Heigl, Michaela Klamminger, Elena Schwarz, Ingrid Stein, Anna Rausch
Length of performance: 90 min.
Language of performance: German
The play concerns a group of women, the leader of which is Praxagora. She has decided that the women must convince the men to give them control of Athens, because they could rule it better than they have been. The women, in the guise of men, sneak into the assembly and pass the measure, convincing some of the men to vote for it because it is the only thing they have not tried. The women then institute a Socialist-like government in which the state feeds, houses, and generally takes care of every Athenian. They enforce an idea of equality by allowing every man to sleep with every woman, but that the man must sleep with an ugly woman before he may sleep with a beautiful one.
Sat 10. 4. – 14.30
Theatre Studio Marta
All-Russian State University of Cinematography named by S. A. Gerasimov (VGIK)
VGIK, the oldest state film school in the world, was established in 1919; the only subject taught initially there was film acting. However, other departments such as direction, camera, script writing, management etc. were gradually created. The school was renamed the National Higher Institute of Cinematography in 1934. Among the graduates – many of whom later came back to educate a new generation – are, for example, A. Dovženko, S. Bondarčuk, S. Yutkevich, V. Shukshin, A. Tarkovsky and others.
Nowadays students of the VGIK are taught to work for theatre, film companies, television and other media in such ranges of study as direction, acting, film critique, photography, audio direction, management etc.
www.vgik-edu.ru
Nikolaj Vasijevič Gogol:
HEY!
Directing: Grigoriy Lifanov
Set: A. Musin
Music: V. Norshteyn, O. Fattahova, ABBA
Cast: Dyachkov Filipp, Zabelina Marina, Kupchichev Sergey, Marin Sergey, Morozov Evgeniy, Nikitina Elena, Nikishchikhin Petr, Norshteyn Vadim, Fattahova Olesya, Pomanenko Anatoliy, Surkova Kseniya, Timershin Ivan, Shiryaev Innokentiy, Shchannikov Vitaliy
Length of performance: 120 min.
Language of performance: Russian
“I decided to collect all the evil which I only knew, and for once have a good laugh over it all“. – N. Gogol.
“And we agreed to make fun of all the bad along with Gogol. But when we began to laugh, suddenly we became afraid of how this funny story might end. And we have a little fantasy on this subject“. - Students workshop of Igor Yasuloich.
Where?
In the God-forsaken Russian hinterland, on the way from St. Petersburg to Saratov ...
When?
In the 70th year, and a century is not important ... (What is for Russia 100 years, 200 or 300? - Nothing has changed....)
Why?
Take a look! Listen attentively! Think! It is modern.
Fri 9. 4. – 17.30
Goose on the String Theatre
Halic University Conservatory Theatre Department
Haliç University is a foundation university, which was founded in1998 and Haliç University's modern republican vision is in line with the globalizing world. It embraces the urge to educate its students as specialists who know, use and produce science and technology.
www.halic.edu.tr
Ozer Arslan:
SHORTCOMING
Directing, set and costumes, production: team
Music: Yigit Dalgin
Cast: Incinur Dasdemir, Yunus Emre Yildirimer, Serkan Altintas, Guney Zeki Goker, Emre Yetim, Mustafa Gultekin,
Ozer Arslan
Length of performance: 60 min.
Language of performance: Turkish
“Everything from the sports page to a magazine, from the economy section to page three news in a newspaper is us”
Things that are mentioned in this act have ... some resemblance to reality.
Deputy prime minister Bull-end got into a latest model Ferrari on the Italian National day:
“I have been a member of parliament for 4 terms and only managed to buy an Audi...”
Prime minister Tie-if attended the opening ceremony of Cola Yurka, the fizzy drink which is also distributed by his son’s company.
“one way or another at least, I listen to people who think like me and I am side by side with them. I will continue to do so. If this is a crime, I can only say I wish everybody committed the same crime...”
Two university students broke a record by not getting out of their home for months only drinking and playing computer games.
“Uncle Tie-if I have a problem...errr I can’t shift my arse and get a job...”
Whilst Ismail G from Rize drew his minibus over the pedestrian overpass out of boredom, one Youngster Who Wants to Remain Unnamed laid onto the metro railway in Bayrampasa bored of having a monotonous life and recorded the train passing over him with his camera.
“I really wanted to do it, and at last I made it happen...”
Whilst all this is happening, a writer embarked on writing his own tragedy and a play started. “...If this play doesn’t catch on, if we fail, we’ll settle in that Aegean town ha? Fish and Raki evenings...in a warm Aegean bay...”
And all these people have met in this play....
Sat 10. 4. – 12.30
HaDivadlo Theatre
Theatre – Laboratory „Alma Alter“
The theatre of the University of Sofia - the national Bulgarian university - was initially founded in 1968. Due to ideology considerations it was later shut down. After more than 30 years, in 2000 it was re-established as the “Alma Alter” Theatre-laboratory by its founder - the director Nikolay Georgiev, who has always been in the avant-garde of the Bulgarian experimental theatre.
"Alma Alter" penetrates into and researches the primary, essential theatre means of expression in the context of the present day. “Alma Alter” is syncretic, creative, strongly unconventional, open, daring and is also known as “The alive theatre”. The philosophy and the methodology of “Alma Alter” is based on the aesthetics, theory and practice of the Bulgarian theatre reformer Geo Milev and probably is closest to Grotowski’s “Poor theatre” principles. The art of “Alma Alter” is highly interactive - the audience is an active participant in all the performances. Each performance of "Alma Alter" should be different from the previous ones, because it is set on the principle of "happening here, now, with these people". “Alma Alter” has won recognition as a unique place in the cultural life of the country, where theatre is not “produced”, but born, where "Things happen" – a categorical alternative to the (conventional) theatre in Bulgaria.
www.almaalter.com
Kokto, Radoev, Igov, Tomov, Berlioz, Gliuk, Meyerhold a další:
ORPHEUS
Directing and dramaturgy: Nikolay Georgiev
Set: Pavel Kolev
Costumes: Miglena Yanakieva
Music: Rumen Baliozov
Production: Theatre-Laboratory “Alma Alter”
Cast: Zornitsa Antonova, Boris Krastev, Pavel Kolev, Vasq Popova, Nadejda Dicheva, Orlin Boyanov, Felicite Zioh, Bilyana Georgieva, Iva Marincheva, Ivan Stoyanov
Length of performance: 75 min.
Language of performance: English, Czech
The human being is the only one who can settle and solve his human problems. In contrast to the plants and animals, man has the chance to be what he has decided to be. His existence is what he himself makes it. He is given the possibility to exceed his own limits. He performs a leap – to the divine, to the cosmos – the one outside his own internalisation - to the world, to himself, to freedom. Thus he himself grows, unfolding the orb of his possibilities. There’s no human being without a world, there’s no me without others.
Fri 9. 4. – 14.30
Fri 9. 4. – 19.00
Bolek Polívka Theatre
The Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw
The oldest "theatrical academy" in Warsaw, designed to educate professional actors, was opened in 1811 by Wojciech Bogusławski. It was characterized by an extremely modern conception and an extensive curriculum in those days. A direct predecessor of the capital Academy of Drama was the State Institute of Theatrical Arts (PIST). The foundation of PIST created a new quality in the history of the evolution of Polish drama education. In 1962 this school (renamed PWST) received academic status. The half a century of history of the Academy has been an ongoing aspiration for improving the means of education and a constant searching for the most suitable methods of training in dialogue, addressing with reality the challenge not only in the field of art but also in the sphere of transmission techniques of new media. The Academy is also part of scientific life in Poland, undertaking research work and organizing scientific symposia concerning the history of theatrical education.
http://www.at.edu.pl/
Wiliam Shakespeare:
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL
Directing: Cezary Morawski
Set and costumes: Malwina Chabecka
Music: Jerzy Satanowski
Cast: Jacek Kwiecieo, Paweł Krucz, Magdalena Lamparska, Natalia Rybicka, Przemysław Wyszyoski, Szymon Nowak, Natalia Sikora, Maria Semotiuk, Marta Juras, Zofia Zborowska, Anna Szymaoczyk, Michał Żerucha, Mateusz Sacharzewski, Mateusz Lisiecki, Konrad Darocha, Marek Kudełko, Marcin Januszkiewicz, Weronika Nockowska
Length of performance: 100 min.
Language of performance: Polish
Like many of Shakespeare's comedies, this one centres on mistaken identity. The leading character, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes is dead. Masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose father and brother have recently died, and who will have nothing to do with any suitors, the Duke included. Orsino decides to use "Cesario" as an intermediary. Olivia, believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with this handsome and eloquent messenger. Viola, in turn, has fallen in love with the Duke, who also believes Viola is a man, and who regards her as his confidant....
Thu 8. 4. – 11.00
Bolek Polívka Theatre
