New Stages Southeast

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New Stages Southeast invites playwrights and theater professionals from Southeast Europe to exchange and develop current materials and themes.The exchange takes place within the countries, between the countries and with authors from Germany.

The project

Starting point

Literature and theatre are an important part of the cultural dialogues in Southeastern Europe. The environment for theatre, especially for independent theatre has been difficult long before the Covid-19 crisis. It is especially important in these time to offer alternative ways for playwrights to present their plays to the dramaturges and to the audience.

Main idea 

How do social upheavals, migration and refugee flows, pandemics such as Covid-19, regressions on the way to European integration, regional conflicts and the ubiquity of populist, nationalist regimes influence contemporary theater? How does theater try to counteract negative trends and to contribute to the sustainable development of a (European-oriented) civil society?
It often seems that stage plays react faster, more directly and more specifically than other literary genres to distortions of all kinds, which consequently raises questions about current material and themes.
How is the plot constructed? How are characters and patterns developed? Which dramatic escalations should the audience see? What formal means of expression does contemporary theater use? What changes in media (use of video, film, social networks) is it experiencing? What about interdisciplinary approaches, the relationship to performance and the visual arts? Does theater see itself as an educational or awareness-raising institution?

Participating countries 

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece (Athens / Thessaloniki), Croatia, Romania / Moldova, Serbia, Cyprus

The phases

The Workshops 

With the participation of well-known German-language stage authors, a total of 14 "New Stages South-East" workshops for authors from the participating countries are to be held in 2021 and 2022 (7 per year).  In the workshops the participants will get the opportunity to present and further develop their pieces and material under the direction of local multipliers as well as in the presence of invited authors from Germany.

The Catalogue

A catalogue for a regional training and development program for young playwrights will be developed by gathering the ideas and wishes of the workshop participants and the findings of the moderators.

the events

Personal experiences of playing and staging will take place as part of the project. Various events (festival, presentation, digital formats) will provide the proper stage for this.

Trip to germany 

In the third year of the project (in May 2023), the project should continue with an excursion to Germany: up to 18 playwrights from the participating countries will be invited to discuss their texts in a final workshop and present them to the public. 

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Events 2023



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Events 2022

Thessaloniki
12.02-13.02 & 19.02-20.02.2022

Workshop New Stages 


Nikosia
25.03-27.03.2022

Workshop New Stages 


Sofia
09.06-12.06.2022

Workshop New Stages


Istria
03.07-10.07.2022

Workshop New Stages


Craiova
05.07-09.07.2022

Workshop New Stages


Sarajevo
07.10-09.10.2022

Workshop New Stages


Belgrad
23.09-25.09.2022

Workshop New Stages


Sarajevo
07.10-09.10.2022

Workshop New Stages


Events in 2021

Thessaloniki
19.03.-21.03.2021

Workshop New Stages


Sofia
13.05.-16.05.2021

Workshop New Stages


Zagreb
01.07.-04.07.2021

Workshop New Stages


Nicosia
10.09.-12.09.2021

Workshop New Stages


Sarajevo
8-10.10.2021

Workshop New Stages


Craiova
18-22.10.2021

Workshop New Stages


Belgrade
26.11-28.11.2021

Workshop New Stages


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