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In October 2008, The Fence met for the 10th time as part of the Romanian New Drama
Festival in Timisoara.
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We made scratch work together, met with a dozen Romanian playwrights to learn more
about the state of playwriting, saw some work as part the Festival and developed
plans for future meetings.
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Participants
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Andreea Valean
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Peca Stefan
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Gabriel Gbadamosi
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Jonathan Meth
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Neil Fleming
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Hakkan Silahsizoglu
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Laszlo Upor
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Clare Duffy
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Alain Foix
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Dieter Boyer
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Ewald Palmetshofer
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Edward Buffalo Bromberg
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Suzanna Mehmedi
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Leea Klemola
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Taher Najib
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Catherine Coray
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Doug Howe
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Melissa Hardy
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John Clinton Eisner
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10th meeting National Theatre of
Timisoara - Romanian new writing, October 4th-9th 2008.
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In collaboration with Artistic Director Ada Hausvater and Festival Programmer Cristina
Modreanu and their colleague Ciprain Marinsecu at the National Theatre of Timisoara.
we brought Romanian playwrights and cultural operators from across the country -
Dramacum and Green Hours in Bucharest as well as others from Targu Mures (dramaFest),
Pitra Namt, and other cities - to meet with their European counterparts.
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Catherine Coray at HotInk and Jonathan Meth liaised for over a year on how to make
a really powerful meeting of the network as part of the New Drama Festival in Timisoara
in October 2008, Catherine - and her colleagues Savianna Stanescu and John Eisner
at the Lark Play Development Centre - added considerable further strength to this
meeting by providing a significant New York involvement. John has for many years
been working with playwrights across Romania and was part of the Timisoara Festival
in 2007.
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Practical schedule |
- Initial Meeting and learning about our hosts and each other
- Meeting Romanian playwrights and cultural operators
- Professional Development – skills exchange /workshop / masterclass and/or
- Festival debate – the futures of Romanian playwriting
- Making and presenting scratch work together - late night x 2 nights
- Final network meeting – project presentations from across the network and future
planning
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