Playwriting in Europe

Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, co-Director of the European Theatre Research Network and Arts Lead for Kent’s Migration and Movement Signature Research Theme. She is an Executive Committee Member for the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance and a Trustee of Actors’ Touring Company. Margherita is the author of Theatre & Translation (2019) and Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (2013), and editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (2014). She also works as a theatre translator from and into Italian and English.

''The book is an impressive undertaking, building cultural and creative bridges at a time when Europe needs these urgently. The book pursues dialogues across practices, institutions, stakeholders and individuals in a methodical and illuminating way, providing a framework that will be tremendously relevant to scholars, students and practitioners alike, well beyond national border lines. Such inspiring, applied internationalism is essential to contemporary theatre scholarship.'' Vicky Angelaki, Professor in English Literature, Mid Sweden University."The quantity of information orchestrated by Margherita Laera in this brief book is quite remarkable. Inspired by best practice from the furthest reaches of Europe – Iceland to Turkey – it provides extensive information on playwriting, theatre commissioning, funding, producing and reviewing practices, constituting an essential toolkit for keeping any theatre industry in excellent working order." Clare Finburgh Delijani, Goldsmiths, University of London.

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsPreface by Claudia Di Giacomo and Roberta ScaglionePart I: At Work with Fabulamundi1. At Work with FabulamundiPart II: Fabulamundi Workbook2. Fabulamundi Workbook: A Report on Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Practices in EuropePart III: Conversations3. For A Common Cultural Space: A Conversation with Lejla Kalamujić and Tanja Šljivar about Playwriting in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro4. Representing Nordic Playwrights: A Conversation with Literary Agent Hinriikka Lindqvist about Playwriting in Finland5: From ‘Fuck Story’ to ‘Whose Story?’: A Conversation with Tyrfingur Tyrfingsson and Sigríður Jónsdóttir about Playwriting in Iceland6. Cultivating Diversity Through Policy: A Conversation with Jenny Mijnhijmer About Playwriting in the Netherlands7. We Have to Run Faster: A Conversation with Tiago Rodrigues and Marco Mendonça about Playwriting in Portugal8. A New Beginning? A Conversation with Mark Levitas about Playwriting in TurkeyIndex