DRAMplan2011 Symposium

DRAMplan2011 Symposium is an international meeting of playwrights, literary managers, translators, festival programmers and representatives of theatre agencies. The main aim of the meeting is exchange of experience in production and staging of national and foreign contemporary drama from the point of view of a playwright, literary manager and translator/theatre agent/festival programmer. DRAMplan 2011 Symposium takes place within the accompanying program of the Prague Quadrennial PQ+.

16^th – 17^th June 2011
The symposium will be held in English.

Program DRAMplan2011

16^th June 2011, 2 – 5 pm
Divadlo v Celetné Theatre, Celetná 17, Praha 1

Panel discussion

Discussion on writing and staging contemporary drama with following guests:

Speakers:

James Gerard Bradley (Great Britain); former literary manager of the National Theatre in London, playwright, pedagogue.
Christopher Campbell (Great Britain); literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre in London, actor, translator.
Glòria Balañà (Spain); independent director of contemporary drama.
Yvonne Büdenhölzer (Germany); literary manager and pedagogue, artistic director of Stückemarkt at the Berliner Theaterftreffen Festival, pedagogue at the Freie Universität in Berlin.

Moderators:

Barbora Schnelle (Czech Republic/Germany); translator, publisher and cultural manager, co-founder of the Drama Panorama project focused on connection of playwrights and translator with practical theatre.
Jan Hančil (Czech Republic); former literary manager of the National Theatre in Prague, translator, Dean of the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, specialist in pedagogy of acting and modern English and American theatre and drama.

17^th June 2011, 9:30 – 11:30 am
Veletržní Palace, Dukelských hrdinů 47, Praha 7

Presentation and discussion: Staging of Contemporary Dramaturgy in the Czech Republic

Presentation of contemporary Czech playwrights and Czech theatres staging contemporary drama

Centre for Contemporary Drama –Letí Theatre Prague (www.divadlo-leti.cz)

HaDivadlo Brno (www.hadivadlo.cz)

Činoherní Studio Ústí nad Labem (www.cinoherak.cz)

Petr Bezruč Theatre Ostrava (www.bezruci.cz)

Discussion on contemporary (Czech) drama

Special guest of the discussion:

Štěpán Šimek (USA); actor, director, translator, dramaturg, journalist, Professor and the Head of the Theatre Department at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon

Accompanying program:

- expositions of the Prague Quadrennial (a one-day pass for free for participants of the DRAMplan2011 Symposium)

- scenic reading of contemporary Catalan drama, 16^th June Theatre

- performance Terminus by Mark O´Rowe, Theatre Letí (with English subtitles), 16^th June

- visit at the Arts and Theatre Institute

The organizer of the symposium is the Arts and Theatre Institute. The Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) is a governmental organization founded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The mission of the Arts and Theatre Institute is to provide the Czech and international public with a comprehensive range of services in the field of theatre and individual services connected to other branches of the arts (music, literature, dance and the visual arts). The ATI collects objects and work relating to the theatre, processes and provides access to them, pursues research, initiates and participates in international projects, and publishes scholarly work.
www.idu.cz

The co-organizer of the symposium is the Centre for Contemporary Drama. The Centre for Contemporary Drama is the main project of the Theatre Letí from Prague. The mission of the CCD is to guarantee the development of Czech drama as well as mutual cooperation with other EU states to ensure circulation of contemporary European plays.
www.divadlo-leti.cz

The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largest scenography event in the world presenting contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and genres: costume, stage, lighting, sound design, and theatre architecture for dance, opera, drama, site specific, multi-media performances, and performance art, etc. The PQ takes place from 16^th to 26^th June 2011.
www.pq.cz