17. Amsterdam, November 14th-18th 2012
Click here to view the programme and
here for the participant list for this meeting.
In partnership with the Theater Instituut Nederland and
MC Theater, Amsterdam, and with financial support
from SICA – the Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities - and
The British
Council, we focused on a European playwriting engagement with the Middle East.
Playwrights and cultural operators from Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, and Morocco
met with Dutch and pan-European counterparts.
We
- Learned about the landscape for playwriting in different Middle East countries.
You can read contributions from
Adel Abdel Wahab and
Nehad Selaiha here
- Engaged with Cultural Policy and Higher Education there as two key parts of that
landscape and its development
- Identified partners in Netherlands and other European countries with an interest
in work emanating from the region
- Heard presentations from Gary Feingold and Natasja van ‘t Westende at
Dancing on
The Edge and Dennis Meyer about his work in Gaza
- Identified interested partners in the Middle East who want to develop playwriting
focused relationships with the Netherlands and Europe
- Previewed a new book
Doomed by Hope Essays on Arab Theatre, due to be published
by our friends at Pluto Press, with support from the Prince Claus Fund Library Project
- Ran a scratch night of extracts from six new pieces and two new ideas.
A big thank you to Anja
Krans at TIN and Katja Hieminga at
MC