Friendship, Playwriting and Transnational Collaboration From the 21st to 25th August 2026, MEDUSA took part in the Südtirol Summer School, held at Schloss Velthurns / Castel Velturno in Feldthurns, South Tyrol. This year’s summer school explored the theme of friendships through lectures, readings, conversations, concerts, performances and workshops involving artists, …
by Charlotte Bomy, member of the German observatory At the end of May, the Italian, Bulgarian and German MEDUSA observatories gathered in Domicella for the final stage of the selection process. Over several days, eight experts involved in the project presented their shortlists and engaged in intense discussions in order …
From Myth to Project The MEDUSA project takes its name from mythology, but its vision belongs fully to the present. The choice of Medusa is not decorative or symbolic in a superficial sense. It reflects a precise cultural and political position: the desire to create space for voices, identities, and …
The Bulgarian Role in the MEDUSA Project Bulgaria plays a crucial role in MEDUSA – Contemporary Playwriting and Inclusive Identities in Europe, especially in relation to contemporary drama, translation, text selection and the promotion of new writing. The Bulgarian partnership includes 36 Monkeys and EURODRAM BG as beneficiary partners, together …
A Shared Vision Across Europe MEDUSA – Contemporary Playwriting and Inclusive Identities in Europe is built on the conviction that contemporary theatre needs spaces of exchange, translation and shared reflection in order to circulate beyond national borders. The project brings together organisations from Italy, Germany and Bulgaria that work in …
Italy plays a central role in MEDUSA – Contemporary Playwriting and Inclusive Identities in Europe, bringing together project coordination, theatre production, cultural communication and academic research. The Italian partnership is composed of En Kai Pan, the project coordinator, Casa del Contemporaneo, beneficiary partner, and the University of Salerno, associated partner. …
The German Role in the MEDUSA Project Germany contributes a strong combination of theatre translation, curatorial practice, public programming and dramatic writing to MEDUSA – Contemporary Playwriting and Inclusive Identities in Europe. The German partnership includes Das Kombinat and Drama Panorama as beneficiary partners, together with NIDS – Neues Institut …
Contemporary European theatre is alive with new voices, urgent questions, and bold ways of writing the present. Yet many of these voices still struggle to move across borders. Plays are written, staged, and sometimes celebrated locally, but too often they remain confined within national contexts, limited by language barriers, uneven …
