Boom! Creative Encounter and Staged Readings from UK and Dutch playwrights
The Fence, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom, and Dutch Performing Arts are together collaborating on Boom! a new project that explores the shared heritage of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, while looking to the future. A diverse group of three UK and four Dutch playwrights have begun meeting together to encounter each other, learn about their shared colonial history, and to explore what might be interesting to each of them to write about.
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About Fence Projects
Fence members come together to generate a variety of theatre projects.
They decide what they want to do and with whom. Fence projects can come from anyone and anywhere across the network. Some have been collaborative writing projects; in some cases Fence members have translated each other's work for subsequent commercial production or festival performance; some projects have been pilot or full-scale productions.
Past Fence projects and collaborations
| 2019 |
Die Berater, Theater Matte, Bern. Commercial production of Ulrike Syha's translation of Neil Fleming's play The Consultant |
| 2018 |
Festival du Mort, La Charité sur Loire |
| 2018 |
Sight/Unseen, London |
| 2018 |
Plays for Young People 2, Hong Kong |
| 2017 |
Ireland Has Struck Oil, London |
| 2017 |
Hopper Project, La Charité sur Loire |
| 2016 |
Plays for Young People 1, Hong Kong |
| 2013-ongoing |
Collaborations with Eurodram, the European theatre translation network |
| 2013 |
Malaysia |
| 2013 |
Swimming Pool, Avignon. Co-written theatre |
| 2013 |
Non, Rome. Co-written theatre |
| 2012 |
Erasmus partnership: Graz, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Brighton |
| 2010 |
HotInk New York: plays in translation |
| 2008 |
HotInk theatre festival, New York: plays in translation |
| 2005-6 |
Janus Project: plays in translation performed at Leeds, Tampere, Amsterdam and Graz |