3-6 settembre 2025 . VIII Convegno EASTAP . Londra

EASTAP Annual Conference
Decentre | Distribute | Democratise
dal 3 al 6 settembre 2025
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Londra

Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros partecipa al convegno di EASTAP con un suo intervento in programma nella mattinata di sabato 6 settembre dal titolo “Capital in the 21st Century Contemporary Theatre: the joys and sorrows of different theatrical systems through ErosAntEros’ Saint Joan of the Stockyards lens”.

Di seguito, l’abstract dell’intervento:

A reflection on different productive theatrical systems in Europe – also in terms of sustainability, accessibility, distribution – through the example of my latest international production with ErosAntEros theater group: a multidisciplinary show involving actors from 4 different languages and Laibach music band, which uses the dramaturgical parable of Bertolt Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards to think on our present. Working on a big scale production of this kind is not easy, especially if it’s the project of an independent theatre company that has to interface with several international public theaters. It is the result of years of research not only on the content, but in big part also on the finances necessary to make the production itself possible, living the paradox of struggling daily within a post-capitalist economic-productive system to create a show that has as its main theme the capitalist economy and the question of the possibility of its overthrow.

A 20th Century classic that questions the economic system of which the society and the production models in which we live are still part, will serve as a springboard for a double reflection: a) on the actuality of the play, even more shocking after the last American elections, the former Pope glorification after his death, the international geopolitical situation and the wars in which we are increasingly more complicit every day; b) on the theatrical systems in which it was produced, the difficulties encountered during its creation and still today in its distribution, results of the same economic-social system that Brecht criticized writing the text.

+ info: https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/eastap-annual-conference-2025-decentre-distribute-democratise