Fabulamundi – Divadlo Letí

What is Fabulamundi?

The Theatre LETÍ has taken part in the international project Fabulamundi since 2017.

Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe: Beyond Borders? is a cooperation project among theatres, festivals and cultural organisations from 10 EU Countries (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Romania, Austria, Belgium, UK, Poland and Czech Republic) for the promotion of contemporary dramaturgy. The network aims to support and promote the contemporary playwriting across Europe, in order to reinforce and enhance the activities and strategies of the professionals and artists working in the sector and to provide the theatre authors and professionals with opportunities of networking, multicultural encounter and professional development.

Funded twice by the European Commission before the current edition, “Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe” won the Creative Europe Call as a cooperation project 2017 – 2020 and it now intends to widen both its reach and impact in the theatre sector. Through its experiences during the last four years, Fabulamundi has verified a growing interest in the European contemporary playwriting scene and has a constant need to provide the sector with adequate and suitable tools that can help it to overcome its weaknesses. Therefore, the need to improve the multilateral relationships and the exchanges has become urgent as well.

The theme of this edition of Fabulamundi is “Beyond borders?”, a wide reflection about a relevant, challenging and dramatic urgency for Europe and European citizens. In these days which are characterized by the immigration emergency and by the raising of new walls, “Fabulamundi – Beyond borders?” intends to focus on the issue of overcoming borders, in order to provide a deep insight and understanding on contemporary matters.

Fabulamundi aims to be a strong and wide platform of support and promotion of contemporary playwriting across Europe.

Fabulamundi’s main objectives are:

1. Promote the circulation, translation, publication and staging of new plays across Europe, through an ongoing exchange process supported by the participating organizations.

2. Promote the knowledge and circulation of valuable playwrights in Europe through an ongoing program of mobility and exchange.

3. Support the playwrights’ professional development, through a wide and ongoing program of peer to peer learning activities, networking and encounters with other playwrights, professionals and stakeholders.

4. Involve drama related organizations (theatres, festivals, playwrights’ associations, publishers, drama schools…) in the development of specific competences (Audience Development, co-production, training…)

5. Enhance a favourable ‘ecosystem’ for new plays and playwrights circulation and production, promoting the dialogue and the cooperation among the different stakeholders involved in the value chain.

6. Create an international network of playwrights, artists, professionals and stakeholders (from public institutions to drama schools, from cultural associations

to publishing associations) aimed at strengthening the whole drama sector, in a long-term perspective.

7. Promote Audience Development in the drama sector at EU level, through the definition, testing, assessing and dissemination of specific strategies.

8. Create, test and assess collaborative strategies and methodologies for the promotion of playwriting at EU level, to be replicated in a long-term perspective with the aim of guaranteeing the sustainability of the project.

Fabulamundi numbers:

80 authors preselected from 8 Countries/dramaturgies (10 authors each)

160 preselected plays (approx 2 per author)

80 authors and 160 plays inserted in Fabulamundi online catalogue

40 authors and 40 plays from 8 “twinned dramaturgies” inserted in the online Fabulamundi Catalogue

Therefore, a total amount of 120 authors out of 16 Countries and 200 texts in circulation and promotion.

Partners

Fabulamudi network connects these partners:

PAV s.n.c. di Claudia Di Giacomo e Roberta Scaglione (Italy)
Wiener Wortstaetten (Vienna) (Austria)
Culture Action Europe (Brussels) (Belgium)
La Mousson d’Été (Pont-à-Mousson) (France)
Théâtre Ouvert (Paris) (France)
Interkulturelle Theaterzentrum Itz e.V. (Berlin) (Germany)
Festival Short Theatre (Rome) (Italy)
Teatro I (Milan) (Italy )
University of Arts Târgu-Mureș (Romania)
Teatrul Odeon (Bucharest) (Romania)

Czech authors

Tomáš Dianiška (1984) is both the actor and the author. He has a special sense of dramatic situations and actual language. He often transforms his contemporaneous topics in the form of B movie genres. Often in shocking form and grotesque exaggeration he deals with serious issues such as identity, relationship or even crash of the individual and society. In light pen, with great insight, he touches politics, general and personal history, in high and low style. Author´s profile

David Košťák belongs to the authors of the youngest generation, yet he has written a respectable number of plays, both original topics and author’s adaptations of classic literature. His plays mostly touch interpersonal relationship, the fate of individuals in today’s society, criticism of consumerism and other phenomena of today, he often refers to childhood memories and inner world of person. His plays are characterized by a poetic language, with a slight touch of playfulness and humor, but also pathos and tenderness. Author´s profile

David Drábek is an author and director in one, with a lushly developed fantasy vision. His heroes are getting older with him. There is obvious the deformation of reality according to the subjective view of heroes and their efforts to solve the crisis of young and middle age. He shows the hopes and disappointment belonging to different ages and to various social categories. His style is characterized by grotesque hyperbole, references to pop-culture and personal and general history. Author´s profile

Lenka Lagronová is especially interested in women’s themes. Most of her plays deal with a woman’s fate, unresolved family relationships, family secrets, and fatal mistakes, feeling of guilt and the inability to understand the world around and become a part of it. In the poetic language of the plays, there intermingles stylized language with symbolism, often with religious connotations. Author´s profile

Petr Zelenka (1967) is an experienced film screenwriter and director. In drama he creates a special world that seems realistic, but there are moments of distortion, absurd exaggeration and black humor. The author leaves us in doubt whether he likes his characters or makes fun of them. He examines the paradoxes of our lives, touching the fundamental problems of human existence at present, he often speaks about strange relationships and absurdities in work and life. Author´s profile

Jaroslav Rudiš (1972) mostly builds his drama works on his prose. From the different angles he examines in the form of storytelling the existential situation of a man in society, his determination by the experience of the past, the inability to escape his inner traps and childhood memories. The personal story is connected with general history, both ancient and recent one. Various metaphysical moments, in which the real and dreamy plane blends, enter the reality of his plays. Author´s profile

Roman Sikora (1970) s one of few politically leftist authors who describes the reality with a ruthless language, great exaggeration of resentment, skepticism and sardonic gossip. His language is hyperbolized, experimental. In his works he is clearly influenced by the icons of absurd drama. Author´s profile

Vít Peřina (1978) focuses on the stories for children and youngsters, with humorous hyperbole, re-interpreting traditional fairy tales with surprising updating moments or creating his own fables where the world of animals hyperbolizes into the grotesque form of people’s world. The plays are characterized by humor, poetic exaggeration and playfulness. Author´s profile

Kateřina Rudčenková (1976) is a real woman playwright of a specific poetic vision, her plays resemble scenic poems in which the reality with the dream mingles. With painful crawlness she reveals the impossibility of mutual understanding, the deep mental abyss among the individuals. She often experiments with form and language (e.g. writing in a third person). Author´s profile

Petr Kolečko (1984) is both playwright and screenwriter, he has a gift to interpret everyday language in special way and he can create impressive dialogues and situations with exaggeration of black humor. The reality is confronted with various unlikely situations. He connects classic themes of Czech and world authors with modern interpretation, he puts “noble” topics into the realm of our everyday reality. He watches the events of great history as if from the backstage. Author´s profile