New Plays from Europe

The festival program aims to provide a reflection of the most pressing topics facing Europe: conflicting national characteristics and idiosyncrasies, diverse interpretations of European identity as well as questions of isolation and self-assertion.

This festival aspires to pave the way towards a united, multifaceted and heterogeneous European cultural area – challenging, critical and tolerant.

Expectations are disrupted and viewing habits are challenged: it is a “continuous attack against stereotyped thinking” as Christine Wahl wrote in the magazine Theatre Heute.

[2] New Plays From Europe relies on a network of “patrons”, including playwrights from 41 European countries, including Biljana Srbljanović (Serbia), Özen Yula (Turkey) and Bernhard Studlar (Austria), Gianina Carbunariu (Romania), Simona Semenić (Slovenia), Mark Ravenhill (Great Britain), Paul Pourveur (Belgium), Hristo Boytchev (Bulgaria), Laura Ruohonen (Finland), Akos Németh (Hungary), and Tena Štivičić (Croatia).

They propose productions to the Artistic Director and inform the network about current theatre events in their countries.