The Fence, this “strange animal”, as its founder Jonathan Meth calls it, is a circle of professional friends all over the world, a club, really, that operates on a recommendation basis. Its focus lies on the work of playwriting, of developing plays, working with directors and dramaturgs.
From 10 to 13 October, 2019, the UNC (University of North Carolina) Chapel Hill hosts its second conference on theatre translation, organised by Adam Versenyi. To my great delight, one of the four translated plays presented there in staged readings is Bernhard Studlar’s IPLAY which I translated into English.
In January, the CROWD conference (CReating Other Ways of Dissemination) gathered at the Berlin Lettrétage. Literary activists from various European countries discussed the situation of literature and the public support for it in their respective countries, listened to literature, and made themselves public. Now CROWD composed a summarizing report (in English) on the insights gained […]