SLOVENIA / 2023
Milan Ramšak Marković – A Rainy Day in Gurlitsch
This text excerpt proposed by Prešernovo Gledališče Kranj was selected by the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
A Rainy Day in Gurlitsch is inspired by a wish to play with road-movie dramaturgy in theatre. Beginning as a benign dialogue play showing a dinner party in a charming middle-class home, we slowly turn to the central theme of the play: a fragmented trip through a traumatic feeling of loss that we recognise as common in today’s Western liberal culture.
DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYTHE NETHERLANDS / 2020
Abdelkader Benali – Hamlet
The play was proposed by De Toneelmakerij / The Netherlands for the ETC Drama Committee
Abdelkader Benali and dramaturg Paulien Geerlings situated 'the ultimate revenge tragedy' within the context of a (fictionalized) highly-segregated neighbourhood in Amsterdam New-West, where the local people are juxtaposed against the real estate elite.
Shakespeare's classic was thereby interwoven with the modern world of influencers, climate critics and criminal money. The text, however, closely follows the dramaturgy and plot development of the original. Hamlet returns from his private school, to his old migrant neighborhood and finds himself in a new world. The streets of his childhood have been swept away by the world of money. Values have been replaced by status. His father has ‘disappeared’ and his mother has remarried his uncle. An enormous construction site makes up the physical centre of this polarized environment and social housing has to make way for a sky-high luxury building for the rich and famous which his uncle is building. In doing so, he will only further widen the gap between people of different classes and cultures.
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DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYAUSTRIA / 2019
Martin Plattner – rand: ständig
The text was proposed by Landestheater Linz / Austria for the ETC Drama Committee
Austria, a small town in the Tyrolean Alps, winter sports area: the scene is a district where no building was done in the past because avalanches regularly occur here on the edge of town. A few years ago, however, the city government decided to build here after all: social housing. The socially disadvantaged, the marginalized, were relocated to this newly created edge of town. The actual reason for the relocation is tourism, in the center of the village space should be created for more hotels, parking spaces, and to remove the socially disadvantaged from the tourists' field of vision. But now it has happened again: Crescentia, as the avalanche that descends on this slope is called from time immemorial, has gone off again. It buried the new buildings and the people living in them. Also some ski tourists. But it is precisely these marginalized people who now crawl out of the avalanche cone and become aware of their unfortunate situation.
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