BULGARIA / 2023
Anna Petrova – Everyone Neighed After His Neighbor’s Wife
This text excerpt was proposed by the Theatre and Music Centre Kardjali to the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
Everyone Neighed After His Neighbor’s Wife is a bittersweet symphony with unexpected twists and turns. Every attempt by the heroes to achieve intimacy is destroyed with sarcasm. A clash between The Man and The Woman rife with love and power. They both hurt each other to hide their vulnerability. They fight with irony and sarcasm, but there are no winners in this war.
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Mariette Navarro – Zone à étendre
The play was proposed by La Mousson d’été / France for the ETC Drama Committee
We first follow a group of people walking side by side along a forest path. They get to know each other as they progress through the forest and share pieces of their history, their convictions, their doubts and hopes, while the forest revives feelings buried within them in an immemorial relationship to legends and magic. All these people have a different reason for joining the march, but that they are all doing it to take a step aside from the power in place, a power they no longer identify with or they no longer want to support. They are, in fact, on their way to a clearing where a community they wish to join has been established.
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Teunkie Van Der Sluijs – Tikkun Olam
This text excerpt was proposed by Young Vic to the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
Black, Jewish, and chronically online: influencer LEAH, twenty-something, has a large following and is a savvy voice in politics and current events. But she is fiercely guarded about her personal life, which she protects from her social media activities. That becomes complicated when she’s thrown into the centre of a media storm in British politics between advocates and opponents of a proposed Holocaust memorial near London's Houses of Parliament.
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Giorgis Tsouris – 170 square meters (Moonwalk)
This text excerpt was proposed by Cyprus Theatre Organisation to the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
170 square meters (Moonwalk) takes place in the living room of a 170-square-metre house in the Greek province of Thebes. Two sisters, Alexandra and Lily meet after years on the occasion of their father’s recent death to sort matters concerning their family house and their shares. The house turns into a battlefield, where all its people move aggressively; what is taken for granted, is now upturned. Well-kept secrets come to light and are exposed.
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BELGIUM / 2020
Emmanuel De Candido - The Flamboyant Round – The (il)legitimate Play of a Son of Colonialism
The text was proposed by Théâtre de Liège / Belgium for the ETC Drama Committee
Based on interviews and research that the author conducted in Sicily, the Democratic Republic
of Congo and Reunion Island, this fable for five characters tells the story of a debt.
Five actors dance a round, before sitting down.
It is the story of an old banker who has to leave a country he loves like an abusive father.
It is the story of a young politician who is trying to restore his town's financial accounts before
the elections.
It is the story of a political opponent who tries to hide an embarrassing corpse.
It is the story of a former child soldier who has become a gardener, caught up in the violence of
his own people.
It is the story of a young merchant woman whose man has just been abandoned at the bottom of
a well.
It is the story of a circular debt, a debt they will have to settle in two nights, a debt that passes
from hand to hand, gorged with blood, silence and violence.
It all begins with an enigma whose resolution could have saved the living and honoured the
dead.
Unfortunately, this story is inspired by real facts.
It is therefore a tragedy.
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DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYBULGARIA / 2014
Elena Alexieva – Phantom Pain
The play was proposed by Theatre and Music Centre Kardjali / Bulgaria for the ETC Drama Committee
The Armless Woman has lost both her arms in an accident. After the amputation, she lives in her modest apartment struggling to manage with her new, hopeless life. She is tended by Maria and Maria’s son, the Boy. In an attempt to kill time, the Armless Woman starts to paint with her mouth.
A stranger to art, she is aware that her paintings are weird and poor. However, her case is taken up by a TV journalist, who promotes the Woman and her art, and gradually, the Armless Woman becomes a celebrity artist. The popularity of her works grows. She is even labelled an intellectual. And yet, she cannot sleep at night due to the phantom pain which she tries to fight through painting.
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