LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS 2016 – selection of original texts Eurodram, European network for drama in translation, is delighted to announce the selection of the 2016 plays, recommended for translation. These have been chosen by the 259 members of 25 language committees, from the 667 original plays received in 2015. Just so you know, it is […]
At the 4+1 festival in Leipzig, the first EURODRAM event with the 2016 selection took place on 2 April, 2016, a collaboration with Schauspiel Leipzig. Members of the ensemble plus Anna Schmidt and Anjorka Strechel as guest performers, read twenty-minute excerpts from the three plays. The readings were staged by EURODRAM committee members. We were […]
The German committee of EURODRAM, the network for European drama in translation, now announced their 2016 selection.
Eurodram will be part of the Young Playwrights Festival 4+1 at Schauspiel Leipzig (31.03-02.04.; Artistic Director Esther Holland-Merten).
Plays in my translation not yet produced on German stages: EXCENTRIC PLANET/EXZENTRISCHER PLANET by John Barrow
Andrea Stolowitz and I wrote an article on playwriting in the U.S. and in Germany. HOTreview now published a longer version. Great thanks to Jonathan Kalb, editor.
On Monday night, the European network for drama in translation, Eurodram, presented their 2015 selection of plays for a second time after a reading in May at Nationaltheater Mannheim. At the Vienna Theater Drachengasse, coordinator Ulrike Syha and committee members Christian Mayer, Sandra Schüddekopf, Nicole Desjardins, Wolfgang Barth, and Henning Bochert welcomed playwright Maria Tryti […]
by Henning Bochert 12 – 14 May 2015 Out of an erratically commencing spring in Berlin, the plane propelled me into the decided warmth of the Bulgarian capital. Sofia was unknown to me, and I was positively surprised by its mixture of thriving small shops, good coffee and food, pavement and trams and tracks crying […]
Very delighted to see that AM BODEN by George Brant will be presented as a staged reading at Schauspiel Stuttgart. In the context of the TERRORisms festival, wonderful Astrid Meyerfeldt will be reading the strong play in my German translation on 24 June 2015. AM BODEN staged reading with Astrid Meyerfeldt 24 June 2015 8 – […]
ONE YEAR IN BERLIN – Stolowitz/Bochert on Howlround
During her residency in Berlin, Andrea and I discussed our respective theatre realities. Now we are very happy to announce that our conversation on aesthetics in playwriting has been published on Howlround. A slightly longer version (and its German translation) can be found here.