Interplay Europe is one of most important festival for young playwrights in Europe

Europe

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It is organized by Interplay

Interplay

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; international, not-for-profit arts organisation for the furtherance of young playwrights aged 18 to 26. It was founded in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 in 1985. Every two years Interplay organises the largest and most prestigious festival of its kind, World Interplay

World Interplay

World Interplay is the largest festival of young playwrights in the world. It is the peak activity of the Interplay organisation, and is held for two weeks every two years in Townsville, Australia. The first World Interplay was held in Sydney in 1985....

, in Australia

Australia

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Every other year a European country hosts Interplay Europe. The first Interplay Europe was held in 1995. in Berlin

Berlin

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 and Interplay Europe e.V became official in 1998., which was also in Berlin

Berlin

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Participants from all over Europe

Europe

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 discuss their plays for two inspiring, practical and creative weeks in classes, workshops, forums and events with experienced international tutors. Through workshops and small scale productions they have the opportunity to improve their work. Interplay also supports international youth exchange and seeks to contribute to better understanding between nations.

Interplay Festivals are held in order to:

• celebrate the creative richness of young playwrights
• provide an international meeting place where their work can be discussed, workshopped and performed
• provide an international forum for the ideas of young playwrights
• offer the general public access to the works of young writerst
• contribute to regional, national and international cultural development.

Alumni

Many highly respected and international award winning European playwrights started their career with Interplay. For example: Ivana Sajko and Tena Stivicic

Tena Štivicic

Tena Štivičić is a Croatian playwright. She was born in Zagreb and studied in the Academy of Drama Art there. She completed an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has taken part in theatre events such as Future Perfect, the Paines Plough Young Writers...

 from Croatia

Croatia

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, Katharina Schlender and Kristo Šagor from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Ali Taylor

Ali Taylor

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 and Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...

 from Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

, Esther Gerritsen from The Netherlands, Vera Filo and Anna Haraszti from Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, Darja Stocker and Simon Froehling from Switzerland

Switzerland

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 or Ignacio Pajón Leyra from Spain

Spain

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Interplay festival 2006.

Date: 18 June-25 June

Town: Schaan

Schaan

Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein. It is located to the north of Vaduz, the capital, in the central part of the country. As of 2005 it has a population of making it the largest administrative district in Liechtenstein, and covers an area of 26.8 km², including mountains and...

Country: Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein

The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...

DELEGATIONS

Bulgaria: Ana Vaseva

Croatia: Nora Krstulovic (tutor), Maja Sviben

England: Ola Animashawun (tutor), Daniel Stathis Barker, Tinuke Asher Craig, Hannah Dee

Germany: Henning Fangauf

Henning Fangauf

Henning Fangauf is the Deputy Director of the Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in Germany. He studied German Literature and History in Hamburg...

 (tutor), Kristo Šagor (tutor), Martin Kordic, Frauke Scheffler

Hungary: Judit Cziraki (tutor), Marianna Koncz

Latvia: Inta Bernova (tutor), Gunita Grosa, Eliza Sternberga, Daina Tabuna

Liechtenstein: Patrick Boltshauser (tutor), Peter Beck

Peter Beck

Peter Beck is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 67th District since 2009. He currently is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.-Career:...

, Caroline Herfert

The Netherlands: Jurrie Kwant (tutor), Hubert Roza (tutor), Maaike Johanna Bergstra, Radna Diels, Florian Pieter van Kuijk

Norway: Kim Atle Hansen

Scotland: Alan Wilkins (playwright)

Alan Wilkins (playwright)

Alan Wilkins is a Edinburgh based Scots playwright. His first professionally produced play was The Nest, which opened at the Traverse Theatre in April 2004 and then toured the Highlands and islands of Scotland. The play was set in a Highland bothy and features five hill walkers sheltering from a...

 (tutor), Rachel Lynn Brody, Lewis Hetherington

Slovakia: Vanda Feriacova (tutor), Diana Kacarova, Pavol Kohut

Slovenia: Dragica Potocnjak (tutor), Sasa Rakef

Spain: Antonio Jose Rojano Mora, Ignacio Pajón Leyra

Switzerland: Miriam Ehlers (tutor), Anna Papst, Laura de Weck

Turkey: Hasan Erkek (tutor), Fatma Kandemir

Interplay festival 2008.

Date: 5 July-13 July

Town: Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

Country: The Netherlands

DELEGATIONS

Australia:Lachlan Philpot (tutor), Adam Mitchell

Adam Mitchell

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 (tutor), Anna Barnes

Croatia: Ivor Martinić

Ivor Martinić

Ivor Martinić is a Croatian playwright.-Biography:He studied at the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb. His most famous plays include: The Title of the Drama about Ante is Written Here and A Play about Mirjana and those around her...

Denmark:
Janicke Branth (tutor),
Kristin Auestad Danielsen,
Julie Maj Jacobsen,
Caroline Cecilie Malling Joergensen,
Katrine Hald Troensegaard,
Brian Wind-Hansen,
Thomas Markmann

England:
Phil G. Davies,
Rosa Connor,
Issy McCann

France:
Adeline Picault,
Alban Ketelbuters

Germany:
Henning Fangauf

Henning Fangauf

Henning Fangauf is the Deputy Director of the Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in Germany. He studied German Literature and History in Hamburg...

 (tutor),
Kristo Sagor (tutor),
Azar Mortazavi-Manesh,
Roman Senkl

Greece:
Chara Bakonikola (tutor),
Paraskevi Pouli,
Marina Danezi

Hungary:
Upor Laszlo (tutor),
Márton Kiss

Iceland:
Thordis Elva Thorvaldsdottir (tutor),
Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson

Latvia:
Lauris Gundars (tutor),
Elvijs Cakans,
Inga Liepa

The Netherlands:
Jurrie Kwant (tutor),
Don Duyns (tutor),
Gijsje Kooter (tutor),
Jannemieke Caspers,
Michiel Lieuwma,
Malou De Roy van Zuydewijn,
Babiche Ronday,
Jelmer Soes,
Anna Maria Versloot,
Milou Brockhus,
Esther Duysker,
Timen Jan Veenstra

Poland:
Aneta Wróbel-Wojtyszko (tutor),
Ewa Wikiel,
Sylwia Wojas

Russia:
Benjamin Slivkin (tutor),
Yulia Yakovleva,
Dmitry Egorov

Scotland:
Alan Wilkins (playwright)

Alan Wilkins (playwright)

Alan Wilkins is a Edinburgh based Scots playwright. His first professionally produced play was The Nest, which opened at the Traverse Theatre in April 2004 and then toured the Highlands and islands of Scotland. The play was set in a Highland bothy and features five hill walkers sheltering from a...

 (tutor),
Joanne Toner,
Jonathan Whiteside

Spain:
Ignacio Pajón Leyra

Sweden:
Dag Thelander

Switzerland:
Simon Froehling (tutor),
Noo Steffen

Turkey:
Hasan Erkek (tutor),
Cigdem Yildirem,
Huseyin Gucumen

Host towns

Year	Town	Country	Artistic Director
1995	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Henning Fangauf Henning Fangauf Henning Fangauf is the Deputy Director of the Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in Germany. He studied German Literature and History in Hamburg...
1998	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Henning Fangauf Henning Fangauf Henning Fangauf is the Deputy Director of the Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in Germany. He studied German Literature and History in Hamburg...
2000	Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	/
2002	Pecs Pécs Pécs is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county...	Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...	/
2004	Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	/
2006	Schaan Schaan Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein. It is located to the north of Vaduz, the capital, in the central part of the country. As of 2005 it has a population of making it the largest administrative district in Liechtenstein, and covers an area of 26.8 km², including mountains and...	Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...	Henning Fangauf Henning Fangauf Henning Fangauf is the Deputy Director of the Children's and Young People's Theatre Centre in Germany. He studied German Literature and History in Hamburg...
2008	Utrecht Utrecht (city) Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...	The Netherlands	Hubert Roza
2010	Izmir Izmir Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Hasan Erkek

External links and References

• World Interplay website
• Interplay Europe website
• Interplay Europe 2008