New playwriting competition launched by Danish theatre
Seeking: A playwright who can write for the animation adult puppet theatre!
Animation adult puppet theatre has become the signature genre of our Copenhagen based theatre, Baadteatret. During the recent 8 years, we have constantly been developing our style and examined the possibilities within this genre. We do not underestimate our audience. We have staged performances about alcoholism, texts written by Grundtvig, Shakespeare, Homer and even an autobiography by the Danish writer Erling Jepsen. We have shown that the poetic form can easily merge with grave subjects.
Whom do we seek?
- A playwright who can write for the animation adult puppet theatre.
- A language of the genre; a challenging, poetic and strange language that will take the puppets to unconquered land without losing the audience.
- Words that will bring the setting alive. Texts that will uncover the wounds and the safe secrets of people and nations.
- A playwright with a mission to put life into dead things.
- A play seeking to burst all bounds; technical, dramatic and structural.
And what is a drama for the puppet theatre?
A text freed of psychology, geography and freed of rigorous demands in plot, time and space.
A text, freed from the law of gravity or other physical and psychological laws.
A text where everything can happen. As long as the message, story or wish comes through.
This is what we want and this is why we ask you for your help.
If your play is elected as a winner, the theatre will produce it during the season of 2015/2016
Please go to www.baadteatret.dk to watch pictures of earlier performances for inspiration.
PRACTICALITIES:
No synopsis or drafts. Only a concluded piece of drama.
The play has to be in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or English.
30 to 60 pages long. Length of the play, 1 hr.
Write a few lines of your basic idea and why your play is specifically meant to be for the animation adult puppet theatre.
Other than that, in terms of type of play, characters, stage directions and so forth, there are no limitations what so ever. The winning play will be produced and staged by the ensemble of Baadteatret. Rolf Heim is the director, puppeteer and scenographer Rolf Søborg Hansen creates the setting. Laura Müller is one of several actors.
In case your play is produced, your fee will be paid in accordance with the Danish Dramatist Union.
Please forward your contribution to drama@baadteatret.dk Deadline: April 1st, 2015
We will confirm your contribution by email and you can expect an answer before July 2015.
The jury:
Madeleine Røn Juul - theatre director and chairman of the theatre’s board
Laura Müller - actor and member of the ensemble at Baadteatret
Simon Boberg - artistic manager of Husets Teater (a renowned theatre in Copehagen)
Rolf Søborg Hansen - puppeteer and member of the ensemble at Baadteatret
Trine Wisbech - artistic manager of Det Lille Teater/Marionet Teatret (a renowned children’s theatre in CPH)
Rolf Heim - artistic manager of Baadteatret
Rolf Heim, artistic manager of Baadteatret, says:
“Animation Adult Puppet Theatre can - through its creativity – create space, images and situations that are entirely different from those in classical and traditional theatre. The physical impossible becomes possible; the performance is enchanting and seducing without being naïve or childish.
It has brought back the poetry, we thought had been engulfed by the computer and cyberspace…”
For further information, please contact
Lena Hedegaard +45 20 33 75 07 or by email: mail@artattackaps.dk
Tags:
