Photos © by Jennifer Ressel/Lucie Beraha/ U.T.E.
The TERRORisms Festival programme (pdf): TERRORisms_Festival_Programmflyer
Developed in collaboration between five theatres in Stuttgart, Oslo, Belgrade, Tel Aviv and Reims, the TERRORisms project resulted in the creation of five original plays dealing with the theme of terrorism.
Written over the period of 2013 through 2015, the plays by Fritz Kater in Stuttgart, Milena Marković in Belgrade, Maya Arad in Tel Aviv, Jonas Corell Petersen in Oslo and Aiat Fayez in Reims led to the organisation of a series of world premieres, production exchanges, meetings, conferences and discussions all over Europe and beyond.
These five plays — the original version and their translations into English and German — are now available as an eBook. You can download the eBook under www.culturbooks.de/terrorisms for free.
Following the intense two-year collaboration period, the project ended in June 2015 on the occasion of a festival in Stuttgart, bringing together for the first time all the five performances created for the project. Read the TERRORisms Festival programme flyer (pdf): TERRORisms_Festival_Programmflyer
The TERRORisms project is a cooperation project directed by the Union des Théâtres de l’Europe with the support of the “Creative Europe” Programme of the European Union.
Born 1982. Lives and works as a freelance theatre critic and cultural journalist in Rome/Italy.
He studied Theatre and Performing Arts at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where he has a PhD scholarship in Theatre Studies and co-leads a permanent workshop on theatre criticism. He is one if the founders and writers for the independent daily web magazine Teatro e Critica, which is the most read performing arts-oriented online publication in Italy. In 2011 he was selected for the SPACE – Writers on the Move platform. During the following years, he joined a team of four writers from four different European countries and launched a program of itinerant residencies for critics, aimed at developing an international point of view on theatre and performing arts through an experiment of collective writing.
Born 1986. Lives and works in Moscow/Russia. Currently she is studiying Theatre Studies and Criticism at the Russian University of Theatre Arts. She has graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University in Linguistics and Language Training in 2008, followed by a Master’s degree in Translation and Interpretation Studies in 2010. Nina writes regularly for the online magazine teatral-online.ru. She runs the young journalists training project “Malii Goroda Rossii” (Small cities of Russia) from 2004 to 2014.
Born 1976. Lives and works as a cultural journalist in Porto/Portugal, focusing on the performing arts and specially theatre and dance. She studied Social Communication at the „Universidade do Minho“, specializing in Journalism and audio-visual Production/Direction. She is now working as the Editor-in-chief at Ípsilon, Público’s art and entertainment weekly supplement. She received an honorary mention on the 3rd edition of the Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses’ Journalism Prize for the Ípsilon feature “Programar no Interior é uma Luta. E a Luta Continua” in 2008.
Born 1985. He works as a theatre dramatist at the Rhodobe Theatre „Nikolay Haytov“ in Plovdiv/Bulgaria and as a cultural journalist for several magazines. He studied Theatre Management at the stage department of the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, following by studies of Art Management at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Plovdiv. He wrote for several print and online magazines, such as the “Theatre” magazine, “LIK”, Magazine “8”, blistermagazine.com, Puppet Art, dramaturgynew.net, stand.bg, lik- bta.bg, GIFT – magazine for independent theatre – Vienna. His creative work as a director and video artist explores a variety of forms from performance to documentary and fictional short films. Excerpt from his film work: Bright Shadow (2012) Marta 12:30 (2013), Satellites (2013), Lossy Compresion (2013), Slapstick (2014), Finix (2015).
Born 1976. Lives and works in Oslo/Norway.
Lillian works as a theatre critic for the newspaper Dagbladet and the journal Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift and also as a translator (mostly for the performing arts database Sceneweb.no), a visiting lecturer (Nordic Black Xpress/NBX) and writer. She is responsible for several of the theatre categories in Norway’s leading encyclopaedia: Store Norske Leksikon. She is working on an essay project on theatre, planned to be published as a book. Currently she is a member of the juries of the Norwegian theatre awards The Hedda Awards, the drama text award Scenetekstprisen and the musical theatre award Musikkteaterprisen.
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Main page: the TERRORisms Special Issue
Published on 10 April 2015
The story takes place in a time when everything swims and blurs.
Five people, five mornings. The city is in state of alert. Is it because of an explosion? Or a radioactive contamination? A dangerous virus? The society’s “burn-out”? Nobody knows. It seems that no foreign enemy can be held responsible. In this exceptional situation, five people develop their own survival strategy.
Paul, consultant in information technology, locks himself in his house with all the means he finds. He even refuses his wife to come in, lest he should get infected. Following the disaster, the life and marriage of August and Julia, who are on the verge of getting a divorce, seem to be accelerating, particularly with the arrival of student Missy, which will act as a catalyst. In order to survive, they all try whatever they can, their attempts being more or less brave, ridiculous, absurd, sad and inappropriate. Ever since the beginning, even before the disaster, their lives were already lost, meaningless and useless. These events provide meaning to the life of some protagonists, even though this is only temporary. When dying, some will even try to get a new start.
Fritz Kater is one of the most important contemporary German playwrights. He received the Mülheimer Dramatiker Prize in 2003 for his play zeit zu lieben zeit zu sterben. That same year, as well as in 2004, he was voted “Author or the Year” in a critics’ survey by Theater Heute. In 2008, Fritz Kater was awarded the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatiker-Prize for his oeuvre. He was furthermore invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen, the Heidelberger Stückemarkt, and multiple times to the Mülheimer Theatertage.
An original play written by Fritz Kater
Directed by Armin Petras
With Andreas Leupold (Paul), Holger Stockhaus (August), Anja Schneider (Loretta), Hanna Plaß (Missy), Manja Kuhl (Julia)
Stage setting Natascha von Steiger
Costume Patricia Talacko
Video Rebecca Riedel
Music Thomas Kürstner, Sebastian Vogel
Choreography Berit Jentzsch
Dramaturgy Carmen Wolfram
Premiere on the 26 October 2013
At the Schauspiel Stuttgart
Produced by Schauspiel Stuttgart
In the context of the TERRORisms project
Text published by CulturBooks
freely downloadable in the German original text & in English translation
Programme brochure
On stage the 27 and 28 June 2015 19:00
At the TERRORisms Festival Stuttgart, Germany
Performance in German with English subtitles
Published on 10 April 2015
