Theatre festival euro-scene Leipzig sets out on a search for traces in its 20th anniversary


The euro-scene Leipzig will take place from 02 to 07 November 2010 for the 20th time. Under the motto "Spurensuche" ("Searching for traces"), the festival of contemporary European theatre will show 12 guest plays from 10 countries in 25 performances and 9 venues. In its anniversary year the festival, under the direction of festival director Ann-Elisabeth Wolff, is embarking on a journey both towards a résumé of its own development and towards setting a course for the future. The euro-scene Leipzig holds a firm place in the European festival landscape today and shows dance and speech theatre as well as intermediate areas of performance art. The festival enjoys the patronage of Stanislaw Tillich, Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony.

Among the guest plays there will be a reunion with a number of artists with whom the euro-scene Leipzig has long enjoyed a partnership. This includes Alain Platel of Belgium and Angelin Preljocaj of France, two of the most significant choreographers in Europe, and the exceptional Italian director Romeo Castellucci, Cesena. Also coming from Italy is Pippo Delbono, who practises strong societal criticism with opulent theatre images.

On the occasion of the anniversary year, three plays that have been among the highlights of European theatre for the past years will be shown: "Sonja“ by Alvis Hermanis from Riga, "Twee stemmen” ("Two voices") by Johan Simons with Jeroen Willems, one of the best actors of the Netherlands, and "Savitrí“, an enchanting shadow theatre for children by Divadlo Lišeň from Brno. The in-house production “Prophezeiung 20/11" ("Prophecy 20/11”), an instinct theatre play by Philipp J. Neumann from Leipzig, in partnership with the Festspielhaus Hellerau / Dresden and the Thalia Theater Halle, will have its world premiere.

An extensive fringe programme comprises dance and theatre films as well as the symposium "Ost-West-Passagen" (“East-West-Passages”) in co-operation with the International Theatre Institute (ITI), Berlin.


Information and tickets (from 25.09.2010):
www.euro-scene.de / info@euro-scene.de / tel. +0049-(0)341- 980 02 84