Cities, Borders and Belonging: A Conversation with Tatjana Motta

Cities, Borders and Belonging: A Conversation with Tatjana Motta Tatjana Motta studied Visual Arts and Theatre at IUAV University in Venice and Playwriting at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan. She is an Italian playwright and screenwriter, author of several theatrical works. She won the 55th Premio …

MEDUSA Selected Plays: an Overview of Playwriting and Identity in a European Perspective

by Stefania Bruno, member of the Italian observatory The final selection of MEDUSA texts required consideration of a wide range of issues. The discussion on what is meant by transnational potential focused on, among other things, how the plays might work together as a whole in the context of the …

The Italian Partners of MEDUSA: Between Theatre, Research and European Cooperation

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. …

Contemporary Playwriting in Europe: three countries, one shared challenge

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 …