VILLES EN SCÈNE/CITIES ON STAGE, a collaboration between five prominent European theatres – Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Paris), Teatro Stabile di Napoli (Napoli), Teatrul National Radu Stanca (Sibiu), Teatro de La Abadía (Madrid), Folkteatern (Göteborg) – initiated by the Théâtre National. This five-year project is supported by the European Commission, as part of the programme « Culture 2007-2013 ».
This project, by means of dynamic transnational work implicating citizens of different cities, aims at creating a new lively European repertoire and connecting with the challenges of a continent in mutation and evolution.
In this beginning of the century, the European Union faces inedited situations produced by its own transformation, by the globalization and by a crisis of its economic model. The big cities face numerous challenges such as dualization of its population, suburbs or city centres in relegation. Nevertheless, the cities are the place arising alternative, creative, changing models of plural identities.
Therefore, six theatres mobilize themselves around a large programme of actions and, by the request of theatre plays, want to create and assure the diffusion of a new corpus of oeuvres treating the key challenges related to « the coexistence » in the big cities of the European Union.
The mobility, the exchanges and the constant research on innovative practices between the social and the artistic teams, just as their miscegenation, bring an added value to the project.
A work of analysis and refection realized by experts will guide the project. The accumulation of the experiences and the evaluation of the actions will be subject of specific communications addressed to professionals and public.
Our project ally an elevated artistic exigency, famous and emergent artists, citizens, experts from the world of the university and associate, toinvent together an ensemble of stories that talk about today’s Europe.
This project has been funded with support from the EuropeanCommission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
