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Information about Interplay - Festival of Young Playwrights
Interplay is an international organisation for the furtherance of young playwrights
aged 18 to 26. It was founded in Sydney in 1985. Until 2011 every two years Interplay organised the world´s largest festival of young
playwrights, World Interplay, starting in Sydney, followed by Townsville (at James Cook University) and finally held in Cairns /Queensland, Australia. Participants from all over the world discussed
their plays in small groups with experienced international tutors. Through workshops and small scale productions they had
the opportunity to improve their work. World Interplay also supported international youth exchange and seeks to contribute to better
understanding between nations. In 2011 the work of World Interplay was - due to money problems - finished and the office in Brisbane closed. But Interplay's spirit and its work
is still alive - by Interplay Europe!
Interplay Europe e.V. In 1998 Interplay Europe
e.V. was founded in Berlin. Its office is in Frankfurt am Main
(Chairperson: Henning Fangauf). The work of Interplay Europe is
similar to World Interplay. The first two Interplay Europe Festivals
took place 1995 and 1998 in Germany, in the cities of Mainz and Berlin. The following festivals happend in 2000 in Warsaw / Poland,
2002 in Pecs / Hungary, 2004 in Athens / Greece, 2006 in Schaan / Liechtenstein
and Nenzing / Austria, 2008 in Utrecht / Netherlands and 2010 in Ürkmez / Turkey. In 2011 Interplay Europe organised, in the frame of ASSITEJ World Congress,
a small playwright's workshop for ten delegates in Malmoe / Sweden.
The Aims of Interplay
Interplay Europe Festivals are held in order to:
- celebrate the creative richness of young playwrights
- provide an international meeting place where their work can be discussed, workshopped and performed
- provide an international forum for the ideas of young playwrights
- offer the general public access to the work of young writers
Interplay looks for new, high quality work, in which a talent for writing for the stage is clearly evident.
Interplay aims to encourage and help writers whose goal is to write for the professional stage.
INTERPLAY PROFILES
Profile Interplay Delegate
- is between 18-26 years old
- is ambituous, driven and curious to become a professional playwright
- is one of the best playwrights of his/her age in his/her country
- is bringing a text to the festival that he/she wants to develop further and about he/she has questions
to be answered through the interaction with other theatre makers
- is interested in intercultural exchange
- is open for feedback from others and interested in giving constructive feedback to others
- has the level of competence in English which will enable him/her to discuss theatrical ideas in a group setting
- has the level of competence to read plays in English
Profile Interplay Tutor
- is a professional playwright, dramaturg, director and/or teacher in playwriting
- is able to use different strategies to approach and discuss a text
- is interested in intercultural exchange
- has the ambition to help young playwrights develop their work
- has the level of competence in English which will enable him/her to discuss theatrical ideas in a group setting
- has the level of competence to read plays in English
Profile Interplay National Representative
- is employee or affiliate of a national established theatre organisation in order to guarantee continuity
- has got the ambition to form and send a delegation to World Interplay and Interplay Europe every year, consisting
of 1-3 young playwrights and 1-2 tutors
- is able to contact young, ambitious and talented playwrights in his/her country and select the best playwrights of that time
- aims a balance in the delegation in terms of gender, race and etnicity
- organises a professional translation of the plays
Frankfurt am Main / Utrecht, October 2007
Interplay´s Representatives
Interplay Europe has a network of representatives. In many countries there is a close relationship between Interplay and
ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People). Please find the representative of your country under
Representatives
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