Europa

by Lutz Hübner, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Tena Stivicic, Steve Waters, Caroline Jester (Editor)

Overview

Europa brings together four European theatres: Birmingham Repertory Theatre (UK), Dresden State Theatre (Germany), Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz (Poland) and Zagreb Youth Theatre (Croatia) – and four leading playwrights from each country – Steve Waters (UK), Lutz Hübner (Germany), Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk (Poland) and Tena Štivicic (Croatia).

This revelatory piece of theatre sets out to explore the possibilities of collaborative playwriting, to produce a single work that is multi-authored and multi-lingual. Drawing on first-hand accounts, including memories from the 1930s up to the present day, the playwrights have collaborated to overcome language barriers and weave their separate languages into one single dramatic entity. The resulting play engages with increased levels of debate about European identity versus national identity.

This edition features both the multi-lingual and the English text, and has an introduction by the dramaturg behind the project, Caroline Jester.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472530219
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Series:	Modern Plays
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Caroline Jester led The REP's award-winning young writers' programme Transmissions for ten years. She is the originator of 'REPwrite', an interactive playwriting tool, and has developed playwriting projects throughout the world. She has taught on the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University, the Arvon Foundation, Salford University and BCU. She is the co-author of Playwriting Across the Curriculum (2012).

Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk is one of Poland's foremost contemporary playwrights. Her plays include The Death of the Squirrel Man, The Suitcase, and Loose Screws.

Tena Štivicic studied Dramaturgy in Zagreb and Writing for Performance in London. Her plays include Can't Escape Sundays, The Two of Us, and Fragile!, as well as plays for children Perceval – the Quest for the Grail and Psssst!

Lutz Hübner was born at Heilbronn in 1964. One of the most performed playwrights in Germany, his recent plays include Das Herz eines Boxers (Heart of a Boxer), Creeps, Hotel Paraiso and Ehrensache (Respect).

Steve Waters is a British playwright. His plays includes World Music, The Contingency Plan and Ignorance/Jahiliyyah and he is author of the book The Secret Life of Plays.
Born in 1964 in Heilbronn. He trained as an actor and was subsequently engaged at several German theaters. Since 1996 he has been a freelance writer and director in Berlin, where he lives with his family. He has written forty plays, which have been translated in twelve languages. Currently he is the most played living German playwright.
Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk is a playwright and screenplay author. She graduated from Warsaw University after studying Journalism, Political Studies and Gender Studies. She is also a graduate of Screenplay Studio at The Film and Theatre Academy in Lodz. Her plays have been translated into English, German, French, Serbian Croatian, Czech, Russian, Romanian, Ukranian, Swedish, Spanish and Hebrew. Readings of her plays have been held in Poland, Germany, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Spain and the USA.
Tena Stivicic is a playwright, screenwriter and columnist. She holds a BA in Dramaturgy from the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb and an MA in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her award-winning plays have been produced across Europe and translated into a number of languages. Her play Seven Days in Zagreb was the Croatian partner in the ETC Orient Express international project in summer 2009. Her 2011 play Invisible, commissioned by Transport and the New Wolsey Theatre is currently in film development with Good Films.
Steve Waters's stage plays include The Contingency Plan (2009), Temple (2015), Limehouse (2017); radio includes Miriam and Youssef (2020) for BBC World Service. He has taught at the University of Cambridge, University of Birmingham and currently is Professor of Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Secret Life of Plays (2010), has edited the Contemporary Theatre Review (2013) and written a blog for the Guardian.
Caroline Jester is a writer and dramaturg. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University, UK, a Master on the MA in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins, UK and has been Literary Manager and Dramaturg at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, UK. Jester's publications include Europa (2013), Dramatic Writing Masterclasses: Key Advice from the Industry Masters (2017) and Playwriting Across the Curriculum (2011).