4th Festival of Contemporary Slovak and World DramaMay 9-14, 2008
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
The festival of contemporary Slovak and world drama, "Nová dráma/New Drama Festival", was established in 2005 as an annual presentation of the best contemporary Slovak and world drama productions created by Slovak theatre makers. Attended by arts professionals from more than 30 nations each year, the festival offers an overview of contemporary Slovak theatre, interesting insight into Slovak directors and playwrights´ work, a wide range of performances from different regions of Slovakia.
The main program will bring nearly a dozen productions from theatres of all Slovak regions. The new feature of the festival in 2008 is its foreign section. This special section of the program entitled "Focus Russia" is an original presentation of contemporary Russian drama and dramatists and playwrights Yelena Isayeva, Olya Mukhina, Rodion Beletsky, Yuri Klavdiev and Maxim Kurochkin will be in attendance.
Within the Focus Russia project there will be an international conference entitled "Russian Drama in Theatre after 1989“, creative writing workshops, translation workshops, lectures on contemporary drama, staged readings, meetings and discussions with the Russian guests and specialists focusing on Russia from Europe and Slovak theatre professionals. There will be a production of the visiting theatre from Moscow presented within the program.
The final festival program will be available in March 2008 on the Theatre Institute website www.novadrama.sk.
The registered festival guests will be offered free tickets to all performances, free access to accompanying events, meetings and discussions, local transportation in Bratislava and hotel accommodation bookings. Festival provides interpreting assistance, transport from and to airport and visa support if needed.
If you would like to attend the festival, contact Diana Selecká, Registration of International Guests, by March 7, 2008.
E-mail: diana.selecka@theatre.sk
More info at www.novadrama.sk, www.theatre.sk, and the IATC website.
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