Playwriting in Europe

Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, co-Director of the European Theatre Research Network and Arts Lead for Kent’s Migration and Movement Signature Research Theme. She is an Executive Committee Member for the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance and a Trustee of Actors’ Touring Company. Margherita is the author of Theatre & Translation (2019) and Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (2013), and editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (2014). She also works as a theatre translator from and into Italian and English.

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Acknowledgements

Preface by Claudia Di Giacomo and Roberta Scaglione

Part I: At Work with Fabulamundi

1. At Work with Fabulamundi

Part II: Fabulamundi Workbook

2. Fabulamundi Workbook: A Report on Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Practices in Europe

Part III: Conversations

3. For A Common Cultural Space: A Conversation with Lejla Kalamujić and Tanja Šljivar about Playwriting in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro

4. Representing Nordic Playwrights: A Conversation with Literary Agent Hinriikka Lindqvist about Playwriting in Finland

5: From ‘Fuck Story’ to ‘Whose Story?’: A Conversation with Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson and Sigríður Jónsdóttir about Playwriting in Iceland

6. Cultivating Diversity Through Policy: A Conversation with Jenny Mijnhijmer About Playwriting in the Netherlands

7. We Have to Run Faster: A Conversation with Tiago Rodrigues and Marco Mendonça about Playwriting in Portugal

8. A New Beginning? A Conversation with Mark Levitas about Playwriting in Turkey

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