The refugee crisis, on stage
South/North/Movements project addresses the refugee crisis in Europe in the theatre, within a cultural initiative funded by the EEA Grants.
26.07.2016
Four playwrights from North and South of Europe have reflected and written three plays around the same subject: “developing an artistic response to the European context of the refugee crisis” and were presented in a dramatized reading last 4th July in Madrid with great success.
South/North/Movements is part of the project Contemporary Theatre Speaking, developed by the Madrid-based group Draft.Inn and the Dramatikkens Hus of Oslo and funded by the EEA Grants, within the Cultural Diversity and Cultural Exchange Programme operated by the Norwegian Embassy.
The first edition took place in 2014. In that moment, the plays of the Spanish authors José Manuel Mora and Ana Fernández Valbuena were presented in the Dramatikkens Hus of Oslo, and the plays of the Norwegian authors Jon Fosse and Marit Tusvik were translated into Spanish and presented in Teatro Español in Madrid.
An artistic residence in Oslo in January 2016 produced three plays written by Kim Atle Hansen and Kate Pendry, Ana Fernández Valbuena and José Manuel Mora, giving voice to a hot topic: the problem of the refugees in Europe.