MIGRANT DRAMATURGIES NETWORK

The Migrant Institute: Documentation

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:21:19 +0100

Earlier in June we were thrilled to curate and host a collaborative and experimental performance & research event The Migrant Institute: performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries focusing on UK-based migrant theatre and performance-makers and the activist aesthetics emerging from their artistic practice.

>>> Watch Lara Parmiani’s (LegalAliens Theatre) performance workshop HERE

The conversations centred on artistic and scholarly approaches of belongingness amidst multiple crises: Brexit, environmental crisis and the current Covid-19 health emergency.

>>> Watch the group discussions at: #1, #2, #3, #4

Our discussions were guided by four inspiring position papers by Prof. Bridget Anderson (Migration Mobilities Bristol), Prof. Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University), Prof. Myria Georgiou (London School of Economics), Dr Alison Jeffers and Ambrose Musiyiwa (University of Manchester). We were delighted to have the authors with us at this online event!

>>> Read & download the Intervention papers HERE

Connecting theatre-makers, academics and cultural workers, the participants shared their experiences of migration and creative practices on crossings, belongings and interruptions.

>>> Watch the wrap-up debate HERE

The reflective dialogue and practice-led workshop also resulted in a short collaborative poem authored by multiple participants via online chat.

>>> Read and download the collaborative poem HERE

We are grateful for the Brigstow Institute (Bristol) for funding this ideas exchange!

We hope to take The Migrant Institute project further and opening up new creative spaces for recognition: mapping, debating and sharing new perspectives in various regional and national settings internationally in the coming years.

For more information on upcoming events and initiatives please contact us at: the.migrant.institute.uk@gmail.com

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The Migrant Institute- Call for migrant theatre and performance makers expired

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:25:13 +0000

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Looking for a chance to share your migration experience and creative practice and to connect with fellow migrant artists? Join us for ‘The Migrant Institute: performing (non)belonging & post-Brexit imaginaries’ on Tuesday, 9 June 2020, ONLINE, 10am-12 workshop / 2-3.30pm discussions.

The Migrant Dramaturgies Network is looking for first-generation migrant theatre and performance makers based in Bristol and the South West for a one-day ideas’ exchange to meet, discuss and share perspectives on artistic and creative practices informed by migration to the UK. We hope to explore new ways of performing migration and forge exciting new collaborations. This participatory event will feature a performance workshop with Lara Parmiani (artistic director of LegalAliens International Theatre, London) and a set of discussions facilitated by theatre, migration and media scholars.

The entire event is FREE to attend, and we welcome everyone who is interested in migration and performing arts!

Due to limited availability, please register HERE.

For further info email: the.migrant.institute.uk@gmail.com

More about the project

This event forms part of an experimental research and performance project that brings together migrant theatre-makers and scholars from theatre, migration & mobility studies, environmental humanities and media studies from Bristol, the South West and London. We explore new forms of migrant representations and performance practices emerging from experiences of migration in the UK. We look at migratory identities in connection to (non)belonging to geographical and cultural spaces, to examine geopolitics of memory and translocal identities in performance.

Amidst increasingly polarised narratives of migration – where humanitarian and security narratives position migrants either as victims or threats to national security – we believe is important to shape better narratives in order to shape better policies. For this, our project opens new creative spaces for recognition: mapping, debating and sharing new perspectives via performance workshops, ideas exchange and debates.

The project is funded by the Brigstow Institute (Bristol).

Closed Lands: discussion @VaultFestival, 4 March

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:06:56 +0000

Join us at the Vault Festival in London on 4 March 2020 for Closed Lands and take part in the post-show discussion with French playwright, Simon Grangeat; director, Becka McFadden; David Furlong, artistic director of Exchange Theatre and Dr Szabolcs Musca from our research network.

Closed Lands [Terres Closes] is written by Simon Grangeat and produced by LegalAliens Theatre featuring an all female international cast directed by Becka McFadden. The show is co-produced by the Exchange Theatre and was part of our joint R&D project Migrations: Harbour Europe (2019) with LegalAliens Theatre.

To find out more about the play, have a look at the production page and watch Simon Grangeat talk about the inspirations behind the text (in French):

https://www.theatre-contemporain.net/video/Terres-closes-presentation-par-Simon-Grangeat

Special journal issue- Performing Ethos

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:46:42 +0000

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the special journal issue of Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance (Volume 9, Issue 1) on Theatre and Migration between Ethics and Aesthetics.

This journal issue looks at ethical positions and qualities in artistic processes and aesthetic modalities of migrant representation in contemporary theatre and performance in Europe and beyond. The articles and interventions, especially written for this issue discuss performances of migration as ethical spaces, looking at migrancy and performance within the triad of movement- identity- and community. The journal issue is informed by the work of Migrant Dramaturgies Network, an international research network that explores emerging dramaturgies of theatrical responses to migration in light of recent migration and shifts in global politics and economics.

Edited by Dr Szabolcs Musca

Interventions editor: Dr Alison Jeffers

Reviews editor: Dr Vicky Angelaki

The journal issue is now available online and in print. Details and content at: https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-ethos-international-journal-of-ethics-in-theatre-performance

MDN at EASTAP

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:38:41 +0100

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The Migrant Dramaturgies Network was excited to be present this week at the EASTAP conference in Lisbon. Four members of our network presented papers, including Graça P. Corrêa, Katja Krebs, Yana Meerzon and Szabolcs Musca. Click here to see the abstracts.

The conference also featured a Migrant Dramaturgies Panel, chaired by network member Ana Bigotte Vieira, featuring papers from Solveig Gade on Arkadi Zaides’ Necropolis and Szabolcs Musca on Caroline Williams & Reem Karssli’s Now is the Time to Say Nothing.

We are grateful to Clare Finburgh, Peter Boenisch, Mark Robson and others for their comments and feedback on the fascinating issues discussed.

Audience Feedback: Migrations: Harbour Europe

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:02:01 +0100

It has given me huge optimism that complex human realities can still be done justice through art.
Audience Feedback: Day 2

The opening aim of Migrations: Harbour Europe was to find key texts that addressed the theme of migration, avoiding the pitfall noted by Chimamanda Adichie of “falling for the single story, reducing complex human beings to a single narrative”.

Returning to this point of inspiration, in her TED talk, Adichie describes personal experiences of this single story, the single narrative:

Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made. I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something. All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them.

In much of the audience’s feedback, we saw that the original aim of this project allowed audiences to look beyond this single story that is so often commonly prevalent in general perception and media outlets related to migration.

Yes, certainly for me it was the individual characters and their lives/relationships rather than the media presentation of migrants/refugees ‘en masse’ as an anonymous group.
Audience Feedback on what they enjoyed: Day 1

Through the diverse representations in these works and nuanced, contradictory and human narratives seen through the portrayal of the characters and their respective narrative arcs, these plays countered the concept of the singular stories and offered the opportunity for points of connectivity and understanding.

The complexity of the plays themselves. The visceral communication of trauma-related emotional reality.
Audience Feedback on what they enjoyed: Day 2

Migrations: Harbour Europe

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:09:14 +0100

In February this year, we were thrilled to co-produce Migrations: Harbour Europe that took place at the Arcola Theatre in London. After receiving 157 play submissions from across Europe, three plays were chosen, workshopped and presented in collaboration with LegalAliens Theatre.

The aim was to find plays that addressed the theme of migration in an original and non clichéd manner, and each of the plays did just this: Genesis by Chiara Boscaro (Italy), The Sea is My Nation by Hala Moughanie (Lebanon/France) and Closed Lands by Simon Grangeat (France).

The event provided a forum for encounters with members from a variety of sectors, practitioners and academics, and the lively Q&As and public debate (curated by Dr Szabolcs Musca) offered a space for debate and interchanges drawing from themes within the plays. Several of our members were involved in the event including Dr Vicky Angelaki, Dr Graça P Correa, Dr Bernadette Cochrane, Dr Alison Jeffers and Dr Roxanna Paire.

Following this event, LegalAliens Theatre also presented the readings at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury. Click here for more information.

The feedback from the audience was rich and reflective, listen to the Q&A sessions from the event here: https://soundcloud.com/legalalienstheatre

Public lecture at the University of Bristol

Tue, 21 May 2019 12:26:52 +0100

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‘J'existe!’ Migrant Theatre between Ethics and Aesthetics

Wednesday 29 May, 4-6pm, Rm 3.13, Theatre Department, Cantocks Close

In her book, Theatre and Migration, Emma Cox observes how ‘migration is, at its heart, about encounters with foreignness—with foreign people, and with foreign places’ (Cox 2014: 3). Consequently, ‘theatre of migration pays attention to imagining the contact zone between those who arrive and those who lay claim to ownership or custodianship over a territory. But who does the imagining?’ (2014:4-5). Moreover, what are the ethics of such encounters and the dramaturgical politics of such imagining? This lecture wishes to map the interferences between ethical and creative/ aesthetic practices of staging and performing migration, refugedom and asylum in a contemporary context. I will look at ethical positions and qualities in artistic processes and aesthetic modalities of migrant representation in contemporary theatre and performance in Europe and beyond.

It gives particular urgency to this issue that alongside traditional forms of migrant theatre (e.g. documentary, verbatim and testimonial theatre), new immersive, participatory and durational theatre projects have started to emerge. Driven by a quest for new aesthetic models to counter victimhood narratives and enhance empowerment, a growing number of migrant theatre initiatives employ complex artistic practices that act on multiple aesthetic, social and cultural levels. While surveying emerging ‘migratory aesthetics’ (Bal 2007), this lecture will present migrant theatre as ethical practice, highlighting that acts of representation, narration and participation have instrumental power in shaping the perception and reception of migrant cultures and communities.

Since migrant theatre productions strongly connect to individual and communal histories, ideologies and identities, having a personal impact on their participants (see Thompson 2004), ethical considerations are paramount in creative engagements and performative appropriations.

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New journal issue on ‘Playing Inclusion’

Thu, 09 May 2019 19:08:03 +0100

We are really happy to see the publication of a special journal issue on ‘Playing Inclusion. The Performing Arts in the Time of Migrations: Thinking, Creating and Acting Inclusion’, edited by Roberta Carpani & Giulia Innocenti Malini. Our contribution on theatre, migration and crisis can be accessed freely via the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y3ytb42v

EASTAP Journal

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:07:50 +0000

We are happy to see the publication of the new European Journal of Theatre and Performance by EASTAP. Their 1st issue is themed: ‘Spectres of Europe: European Theatre between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism’. It was great to contribute with a book review on S.E. Wilmer’s Performing Statelessness in Europe, an important monograph on theatre and migration. You can access the review via:

https://journal.eastap.com/2019/01/21/performing-statelessness-in-europe-by-s-e-wilmer/

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Theatres of Migration: Crossing Artistic and Cultural Borders

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:59:46 +0000

We’ve been delighted to contribute to ‘Theatres of Migration: Crossing Artistic and Cultural Borders’, a research seminar hosted by the University of Bristol’s Theatre Department on 11 February 2019.

Together with Dr Graça Corrêa (University of Lisbon) and Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol), we explored the relationship between theatre and migration in terms of contemporary as well as a historic theatre practices and flows of migration. During the event, we discussed a variety of emerging migrant theatre initiatives both in the UK and mainland Europe as well as the relationship between activism and migrant theatre (Dr Szabolcs Musca), directorial practices and philosophies of alterity (Dr Graça Corrêa). Beyond contemporary issues, we also looked at the use of mock-migratory backgrounds in early twentieth-century music-hall performances within the context of colonialism (Dr Katja Krebs).

The conversation focused on the unpicking of crisis narratives, the role empathy plays both in theatrical practice as well as Realpolitik of migration, and their foundations in colonial attitudes and complicity as enacted by both audience and performer.

#MigrationsHarbourEurope will bring together thinkers, makers...

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:05:29 +0000

#MigrationsHarbourEurope will bring together thinkers, makers and spectators. Join us for 3 thought-provoking plays from #Europe & beyond and take part in a series of conversations on #theatre & #migration. Book FREE tickets at: https://newtidesplatform.org/2019/01/07/programme-and-booking-migrations-harbour-europe/

Article in RiDE

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:52:19 +0000

Happy to share this article on the work of Madalena Victorino and Festival Todos, published by RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, focusing on #theatre & #migration , #Refugees & #performance in #Lisbon. First 50 downloads free! Please follow the link below to access the article:

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/kXH2UxBK8nJybp92VJ5B/full?target=10.1080/13569783.2019.1568866

Conversations at Migrations: Harbour Europe

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:46:59 +0000

As part of Migrations: Harbour Europe (5-7 February 2019, Arcola Theatre, London) we put together a programme of engaging post-show conversations and a panel debate on emerging perspectives of theatre and migration today.

Book your free tickets for the staged readings and participate in the Q&As and debates afterwards.

Programme: conversations and panel debate*

* All post-show conversations & panel debate will start shortly after the play readings (1.30pm).

Q&A/ 5 February/ Chaired by Dr Bernadette Cochrane (University of Queensland)

Lara Parmiani (artistic director, LegalAliens / actor and translator)

Becka McFadden (director, LegalAliens)

Luiana Bonfim (actress)

Daiva Dominyka (actress)

Q&A/ 6 February/ Chaired by Dr Roxane Paire (Independent scholar, France)

Rockhaya Sylla (Migrants’ rights specialist/ welfare adviser)

Ruth Valentine (translator/ poet/ writer and member of Haringey Welcome)

Lara Parmiani (artistic director, LegalAliens/ actor and translator)

Becka McFadden (director, LegalAliens)

Panel Debate/ Thursday, 7 February/ Chaired by: Dr Szabolcs Musca (University of Lisbon/ New Tides Platform, UK/ Migrant Dramaturgies Network)

Invited speakers:

Dr Vicky Angelaki (University of Reading, UK)

Dr Bernadette Cochrane (University of Queensland, Australia)

Dr Graça Corrêa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Dr Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester, UK)

Dr Roxane Paire (Independent scholar, France)

Programme and booking- Migrations: Harbour Europe

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:02:38 +0000

The three plays of Migrations: Harbour Europe are the result of a Europe-wide call we launched in 2018 in collaboration with LegalAliens Theatre. The aim was to find texts addressing the theme of migration in an original and non cliched manner, avoiding the pitfall, noted by Chimamanda Adichie of “falling for the single story, reducing complex human beings to a single narrative”.

The plays will be presented at the Arcola Theatre, Studio 2 from 1.30pm on the 5th, 6th, 7th of February 2019, directed by Becka McFadden and performed by a multilingual international cast: Luiana Bonfim, Daiva Dominyka, Lara Parmiani, Stelios Trakas.

Every reading will be followed by a Q&A/debate curated by Dr Szabolcs Musca (University of Lisbon/ New Tides Platform UK/ Migrant Dramaturgies Network).

GENESIS

by Chiara Boscaro (Italy)

Translated by Lara Parmiani

DATE: 5th February 2019 @1.30PM
VENUE: Arcola Theatre Studio 2,
24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL

A woman arrives in a foreign city. All around her, a language she can’t speak. Unable to give a name to things, she lives on the margins of society. Who is she? A refugee escaping war? Or somebody looking for a better place to bring a new life to the world? A modern morality play with the charm of a fairytale and the depth of an old myth, Chiara Boscaro’s play focuses on language as an empowering tool, helping us delineating the borders of our personal world.

To book, click here

CHIARA BOSCARO is an Italian playwright whose work has been translated into Catalan, French, English and Finnish. Plays include “07.09.2012”, co-written with Marco De Stefano (PIIGS Selection, Barcelona, 2016), “Bedda Maki” (winner of 2016 Una commedia in cerca d’autori), the international project PENTATEUCO featuring a series of monologues, and “La citta’ che sale”, also co-written with Marco Di Stefano and winner of the 2018 Mario Fratti Award in New York.

The reading will be followed by a Q&A chaired by Dr Bernadette Cochrane (University of Queensland, Australia).

THE SEA IS MY NATION

by Hala Moughanie (Lebanon/France)
Translated by Ruth Valentine

DATE: 6th February 2019 @1.30PM
VENUE: Arcola Theatre Studio 2
24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL

A man and his wife live in the suburbs of a city full of trash. On hearing “migrants from the war” are arriving, they decide to build a barbwire border around their makeshift property. But the encounter with two migrant women heading to the sea, has a surprising outcome… Funny, surreal and poetic, The sea is my nation is about exile and love, visible borders and invisible fault lines.

To book, click here

HALA MOUGHANIE was born in Lebanon but migrated to France aged 10. In 2003 she returned to her native country, where she works as a playwright, journalist and teacher. Her writing is focused on exploring the memories and wounds of war. Her first play, Tais-toi et creuse (“Shut up and dig”) was awarded the RFI Theatre Price 2015, selected by the Cross-Chanel Theater (UK) and is currently being translated into English. Her latest play Alma was produced in 2018 as part of Fissures during the Festival des Francophonies en Limousin. In 2018 she was awarded the Prix d’aide à la Création – ArtCena, and the Prix du Quartier des Auteurs du Tarmac.

The reading will be followed by a Q&A chaired by Dr Roxane Paire (France).

CLOSED LANDS
by Simon Grangeat (France)
Translated by Laure Fernandez

DATE: 7th February 2019 @1.30PM
VENUE: Arcola Theatre Studio 2,
24 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL

A mix between reportage, traveller’s diary and medieval Passion play, this powerful and evocative ensemble piece traces the history of modern walls – real and metaphorical – drawing progressively closer and more intimate. Is history bound to repeat itself?

To book, click here

SIMON GRANGEAT is a French playwright whose writing mixes documentary, verbatim and fiction in unique theatrical form. Work includes Du Piment dans les yeux, Une si jolie mariée, Un Cœur Moulinex, Deux pieds demain, Divines désespérances, T.I.N.A. – une brève histoire de la crise, Faut-il désespérer du monde ou mourir en riant? and the collection of plays for young people, Les Méchants. His plays has been widely performed in France at Comédie Française, Collectif À Mots Découverte, Théâtre du Rond-Point, C.D.N and translated into Catalan, English, Spanish, Hungarian and Greek.

The reading will be followed by a debate chaired by Dr Szabolcs Musca (University of Lisbon/ New Tides Platform, UK). Invited speakers: Dr Vicky Angelaki (University of Reading), Dr Graca P. Correa (University of Lisbon), Dr Bernadette Cochrane (University of Queensland, Australia), Dr Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester), and Dr Roxane Paire (Independent scholar, France).

Selection Announcement

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:54:12 +0000

It is with great pleasure that we announce the selection of three plays as part of our collaborative project ‘Migrations: Harbour Europe‘. This project is a collaboration between LegalAliens International Theatre, New Tides Platform and Migrant Dramaturgies Network, funded by Arts Council England.

Within a short period of time we received 157 play submissions from across Europe and beyond, referencing a multitude of cultural contexts and theatre traditions. We are immensely grateful to all the playwrights and theatre- makers for their interest in this project and for sharing a variety of perspectives on migration and Europe!

The three plays selected by our panel are the following:

Genesis by Chiara Boscaro

La mer est ma nation by Hala Moughanie

Terres Closes by Simon Grangeat

All three plays will be workshoped early next year and will be presented as staged readings at the Arcola Theatre in London at 1.30pm on the 5th, 6th and the 7th of February 2019 followed by Q&As and a panel debate on theatre and migration featuring international theatre scholars and practitioners. More information coming soon.

We would also like to give a ‘special mention’ to four writers whose work did not make the final selection but was certainly outstanding:

Welcome to Bulgaria by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

Orli by Tino Caspanello

Un mouchoir dans le ronce by Anne- Christine Tinel

Sous le Pont by Abdulrahman Khallouf

We want to thank our panel of dedicated readers for their invaluable feedback, insights and for the stimulating discussions throughout the selection process. Special thanks goes to (in no particular order): Vicky Angelaki, Bernadette Cochrane, Roxane Paire, Stéphane Resche, Graca Correa, Fadi Skeiker, Ruth Valentine, Rockhaya Silla, Alicia Cubells, William Gregory, Deidan Williams and Luiana Bomfin.

Watch this space for further information on our programme in London!

#MigrationsHarbourEurope

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:20:51 +0000

Happy to announce that our project #MigrationsHarbourEurope developed jointly with LegalAliens International Theatre Company has been funded by Arts Council England! Readings will take place on 5, 6 & 7 February at Arcola Theatre, followed by Q&As and a public debate on #migranttheatre. Selected plays to be announced on 12 December. More info soon. Stay tuned!

CfP: Performing Ethos

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:53:55 +0100

CfP: Theatre and Migration between Ethics and Aesthetics
Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance

Developed by Migrant Dramaturgies Network; partner organisation: Studies in Migration Research Group, University of Ottawa (Canada)

Issue Editors: Szabolcs Musca, Alison Jeffers (Perspectives) and Vicky Angelaki (Reviews)

Deadline for articles: 31 January 2019

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This special issue of Performing Ethos takes as its theme ‘Theatre and Migration between Ethics and Aesthetics’. The journal issue is informed by the work of Migrant Dramaturgies Network, an international research network that explores emerging dramaturgies of theatrical responses to migration in light of recent migration and shifts in global politics and economics. MDNetwork aims to map new theatrical forms of migrant representation and identify their impacts on national theatre cultures in shaping the perception of non-European migrants and migrant cultures.

We wish to open this issue to contributions beyond our network board and would like to encourage submissions that deal directly with the interferences between ethical and creative/ aesthetic practices of staging and performing migration, refugedom and asylum in a contemporary context. Please note that there is a limited amount of space available for scholarly articles and intervention pieces in this issue!

This journal issue would look at ethical positions and qualities in artistic processes and aesthetic modalities of migrant representation in contemporary theatre and performance in Europe and beyond. It gives particular urgency to this issue that alongside traditional forms of migrant theatre (e.g. documentary, verbatim and testimonial theatre), new immersive, participatory and durational theatre projects have started to emerge. Driven by a quest for new aesthetic models to counter victimhood narratives and enhance empowerment, a growing number of migrant theatre initiatives employ complex artistic practices that act on multiple aesthetic, social and cultural levels.

While surveying emerging ‘migratory aesthetics’ (see Bal 2007), this journal issue aims to present migrant theatre as ethical practice, highlighting that acts of representation, narration and participation have instrumental power in shaping perception and reception of migrant cultures and communities. Since migrant theatre productions strongly connect to individual and communal histories, ideologies and identities having a personal impact on their participants (see Thompson 2004), ethical considerations are paramount in creative engagements and performative appropriations.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Aesthetics of migrant representation and self-representation
Ethics of representation and self-representation
Dramaturgies of alterity and empathy
Ethics of participation
Ethics of inclusion (artistic, social and institutional)
Ethics of telling and re-telling
Performing displacement and refugedom
Migratory identities in contemporary theatre and performance
Issues of sustainability in migrant theatre initiatives
Ethics of fostering narratives and counter-narratives
Social engagement vs. artistic supremacies

Alongside scholarly articles, this special journal issue will feature a Perspectives/Interventions section designed to incorporate a broad spectrum of ideas and experiences which could include practitioners’ perspectives through interviews with migrant artists, intervention pieces, reports from performance projects and documentation of practice.

We welcome scholarly articles ( max. 5000 words incl. references) and intervention pieces and interviews ( max. 2000 words). All submissions must include full references and bibliography, and articles should also include an abstract (max. 150 words) and a short bio-note.Please find the PEET style guidelines at:

https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/intellectstyleguide2016v1.pdf

Please send full articles to Szabolcs Musca (szabolcs.musca[at] gmail.com) by 31 January 2019.

CfP-Migrations: Harbour Europe

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 22:58:21 +0100

LegalAliens Theatre in collaboration with New Tides Platform and Migrant Dramaturgies Network is looking for plays by EU-based playwrights on the theme of Migrations: Harbour Europe. We are encouraging submissions that address and reflect on the broad topic of migration and Europe. While we acknowledge the importance of documentary/ verbatim plays that deal directly with migratory identities and experiences, this CfP wishes to attract original, bold and imaginative scripts which fully embrace theatricality and offers creative/ aesthetic alternatives for (re)imagining migrancy in Europe today.

We welcome plays that challenge stereotypes, clichés and dominant narratives of migration. The call is intentionally broad and can be approached literally, metaphorically or abstractly. This is to allow writers to interpret the theme widely. Yet, playwrights might wish to reflect on some relevant questions, such as: How recent geopolitical and economic events affected people’s perception of Europe? What is the relationship between those who arrive and those who reside, i.e. migrants and host communities? Who is the other and what it means to be a foreigner? How is ‘Fortress Europe’ seen from the outside? What is home?

We particularly encourage submissions from strong female voices and playwrights who identify as migrants or of migrant descent (including those born in an EU country but living in another or born outside the EU but currently living/working in Europe).

Submission requirements:

Written in a European language (including English)
Please include a one-page synopsis in English. If an English translation exists, it can also be attached, with the understanding that LegalAliens is likely to create a new translation
Plays already performed in their original language are welcome, provided they’ve never been presented in the UK
Between 60-80 minutes in length
1-5 actors (multi-roling accepted)
Submitted in .doc or .pdf format

Further details

Submissions will be read by a panel composed of theatre-makers (directors, actors, dramaturgs), translators, academics and theatre critics. Up to three plays will be selected and translated into English. After selection (and translation), plays will be given a week of R&D with our team in London and presented as staged readings at the Arcola Theatre in London. Staged readings will be followed by public debates led by international theatre scholars. We hope to identify at least one play to take forward into full production, directed by Becka McFadden.

Timeline
Deadline: 15th October 2018

Shortlist announced by 10th December 2018
R&D: February 2019

Staged Readings: February-March 2019 (dates TBC)

Full production: June 2019 (dates TBC)

Please send your play together with a one-page synopsis in English to both: info@legalaliens.org and info@newtidesplatform.org

Project Partner

LegalAliens has been promoting European playwrights in the UK since 2010. Our original approach to translation based on the physicalisation of language and direct, rehearsal-based collaboration between translators, cast and creative team. We consider ourselves as migrants in the UK, and believe in inclusion, always trying to cast international and ethnically diverse actors. Our original, visual, interdisciplinary approach and style has been praised by critics in the UK and abroad. To learn more about our work, please visit www.legalalienstheatre.com

[27- 28 April 2018] International Conference: Systemic Crisis in...

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:23:20 +0000

[27- 28 April 2018] International Conference: Systemic Crisis in European Theatre | organised by Christopher Balme (LMU Munich) and Tony Fisher (RCSSD London), Goethe Institut London

[9-13 July 2018] Curated Panel: Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Performance | curated by Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa) and Katharina Pewny (Ghent University) | IFTR World Congress 2018: Theatre and Migration, Belgrade (Serbia)

[9-13 July 2018] Board meeting at IFTR World Congress 2018: Theatre and Migration, Belgrade (Serbia)

[25-27 October 2018] EASTAP Conference: Decentering the Vision(s) of Europe. The Emergence of New Forms, Paris (France)

[Autumn 2018- Spring 2019] R&D project ‘Migrations: Harbour Europe’. In collaboration with LegalAliens Theatre (London). Composed of: play development/ translation, workshop, staged readings, public debate. To take place at Arcola Theatre (London), February 2019

[2019] Guest-edited special journal issue: Theatre and Migration between Ethics and Aesthetics. Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance (Eds. Szabolcs Musca, Vicky Angelaki and Alison Jeffers)

[5-7 February 2019] Migrations: Harbour Europe | Staged Readings, Q&As and Public debate in collaboration with LegalAliens Theatre (UK) at Arcola Theatre London. For BOOKING follow the link here

[11 February 2019] Research seminar- Theatres of Migration: Crossing Artistic and Cultural Borders, Department of Theatre, University of Bristol. Speakers: Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol), Dr Graca Correa (University of Lisbon) and Dr Szabolcs Musca (University of Lisbon/ New Tides Platform, UK)

[8 May 2019] Meeting Points: Migration and Displacement in Arts & Humanities, ArtsLab, University of Glasgow.

[29 May 2019] IAS Benjamin Meaker Public Lecture: ‘J'existe!’ Migrant Theatre between Ethics and Aesthetics, University of Bristol, Department of Theatre

[4-6 Sept 2019] TaPRA Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK

[23-25 Sept 2019] Shared Memory(ies): Creation, Research and Politics on the European Contemporary Stage. II. EASTAP Conference, University of Lisbon (Portugal)

[14-16 Nov 2019] Migrant States of Exception. University of Wuppertal, Germany

[4 March 2020] Closed Lands Discussion, Vault Festival London

[9 June 2020] The Migrant Institute: performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries (Ideas Exchange Event) ONLINE EVENT

Further events coming soon______________________________

MIGRANT DRAMATURGIES NETWORK

The Migrant Institute: Documentation

>>> Watch Lara Parmiani’s (LegalAliens Theatre) performance workshop HERE

>>> Watch the group discussions at: #1, #2, #3, #4

>>> Read & download the Intervention papers HERE

>>> Watch the wrap-up debate HERE

>>> Read and download the collaborative poem HERE

The Migrant Institute- Call for migrant theatre and performance makers *expired*

Due to limited availability, please register HERE.

Closed Lands: discussion @VaultFestival, 4 March

Special journal issue- Performing Ethos

MDN at EASTAP

Audience Feedback: Migrations: Harbour Europe

Migrations: Harbour Europe

Public lecture at the University of Bristol

‘J'existe!’ Migrant Theatre between Ethics and Aesthetics

New journal issue on ‘Playing Inclusion’

EASTAP Journal

Theatres of Migration: Crossing Artistic and Cultural Borders

#MigrationsHarbourEurope will bring together thinkers, makers...

Article in RiDE

Conversations at Migrations: Harbour Europe

Programme: conversations and panel debate*

Programme and booking- Migrations: Harbour Europe

Selection Announcement

#MigrationsHarbourEurope

CfP: Performing Ethos

CfP-Migrations: Harbour Europe

[27- 28 April 2018] International Conference: Systemic Crisis in...

[9 June 2020] The Migrant Institute: performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries (Ideas Exchange Event) ONLINE EVENT

The Migrant Institute- Call for migrant theatre and performance makers expired