Polish Playwriting Finally Being Recognized?

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WHICH DIRECTION HOME?

WHICH DIRECTION HOME? is a festival of new work inspired by The Odyssey. 8 Directors from 6 countries have used Homer’s epic poem as a base to create wholly original theatrical material that encompasses a myriad of themes including home, mystery, choice, identity and myth.

PROGRAM A

7PM Wed 7/21, Fri 7/23, Tues 7/27

Das Fremde Essen, Directed by Dina Keller (Germany)

OD@C, Directed by Jake Witlen (USA)

Lucky, Directed by Karina Bes (The Netherlands)

To The Oars!, Directed by Jeremy Lydic (USA)

PROGRAM B

7PM Thurs 7/22, Mon 7/26, Wed 7/28

Das Fremde Essen, Directed by Dina Keller (Germany)

Longing, Lingering, Lost, Directed by Doug Howe (USA/France)

Fragments of a Father, Directed by Sama Ky Balson (Australia/France)

Oh De Sea!, Directed by Tamilla Woodard (USA)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Saturday, July 24 - MARATHON PERFORMANCE

(Programs A & B back-to-back)

Thursday, July 29

The Blind Trip, Directed by Ana Margineanu (Romania)

& Mash-Up Performance of 'Best of Fest' Highlights

Full Show Descriptions, Ticket info and Much Much More at

http://www.theinternationalists.org/odyssey.html

'Which Direction Home?' Press

Check out these two articles about The Internationalists' upcoming 'Which Direction Home?' festival.

The Brooklyn Rail

The Q Note

Find more information about the productions and how to buy tickets at our website.

La Journée Mondiale du Théâtre

Journée Mondiale du Théâtre

Samedi 27 Mars 2010 - 17h-19h

Le Cavern Club - 21 Rue Dauphine, 75006 Paris

The Internationalists Directors Collective vous invite à vous joindre à nous pour les boissons et la conversation à célébrer 'La Journée Mondiale du Théâtre'. Dame Judi Dench "Message International de La Journée Mondiale du Théâtre" sera lu en plusieurs langues à 18h.

La Journée Mondiale du Théâtre a été créée en 1961 par l’Institut International du Théâtre. Chaque année, elle est célébrée par la communauté théâtrale dans le monde entier le 27 mars. De nombreuses manifestations nationales et internationales marquent cette Journée. Mais l’événement le plus important de la Journée Mondiale du Théâtre est certainement la diffusion du « Message international de la Journée Mondiale du Théâtre » à travers lequel une éminente personnalité des arts vivants est invitée à partager ses réflexions sur le thème du théâtre et de la paix entre les peuples. Jean Cocteau (France) était l’auteur du premier Message international en 1962.

What is Mystery?

Our core collective is currently hard at work developing a festival to be presented in New York this July inspired by Homer’s Odusseia, and we humbly ask for your inspiration and input.

Over the coming weeks, we will be posing a series of questions that we encourage you to help us answer. We have generated these questions to further our dramaturgical research in relation to the text, our collective, contemporary theatre and our current generation. Our intention is to use these questions as ‘connectors’ between our current project, our mission as a collective, and international theatre as a whole.

We would like to solicit your contributions to facilitate a larger understanding and appreciation of what these propositions mean for theatre today. In addition to the productions our directors are creating for the festival, we will be creating a collection of short works entitled ‘Instant Theatre’ that will be created the day of performance and premiered that evening based on your offerings and assistance.

In an attempt to answer these questions, we request that you submit the source material for these ‘instant’ projects. They can be in the form of a photograph, a poem, a short dialogue, a list of props, a brief prose paragraph, a piece of music etc. Each participating director will use the offered source material as the basis for their original piece, so that anything you supply will likely be utilized in the generation of the performance.

We want to make sure that, in addition to the rehearsed productions, we include the insights and musings of our fellow international theatre artists around the world. Any and all submissions are graciously accepted, and we look forward to including your contributions in our upcoming festival.

The first question we ask you to play a part in answering is: What is mystery?