Des Voix...Found in Translation

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DES VOIX …FOUND IN TRANSLATION is an exciting collaboration between Playwrights Foundation, a legendary new play development organization in San Francisco, and the Maison Antoine Vitez (MAV), the International Centre for Drama Translation in Paris, in an exchange that exposes the work of the newest and most innovative contemporary playwrights to audiences in both countries, sharing ideas and perspectives of today’s world, and increasing and deepening cultural exchanges between France and the U.S.

The U.S. Festival will feature a full weekend of staged readings of new plays by three of the most innovative emerging playwrights in France today — translated by the Bay Area’s fiercest artist/scholars, directed and performed by top Bay Area talent. The festival will also include, for the first time in the U.S., a Bal Litteraire – a New Play Night Club, imported directly from the French Avant-Garde, and, for the philosophically minded, a Colloquium on International Playwriting featuring Laurent Muhleisen from Paris and Judith Miller from NYU.

The Events:
Festival Kick-off! - Bal Littéraire, A New Play Nightclub
Presented in Association with LitQuake
Friday, May 25th, 7pm @ Z Space

A unique hybrid performance/club event created the week of performance by French and U.S. writers, featuring Festival playwrights with their U.S. collaborators: Liz Duffy Adams, Marcus Gardley and a special guest! A partnership with San Francisco’s LitQuake Literary Festival.

Colloquium on International Playwriting
Featuring Laurent Muhleisen from the Maison Antoine Vitez in Paris and Judith Miller from NYU
Sunday, May 27th, 11am and 1pm @ Z Space – FREE!
The Plays:

Communiqué N°10
By Samuel Gallet
Translated and directed by Rob Melrose of Cutting Ball Theater
Saturday, May 26th, 4pm @ Z Space

…built like a puzzle, and set in a slightly futuristic megalopolis surrounded by a wasteland where refugees and rebels seek refuge, Gallet’s play is neither strictly realistic, nor a thriller, nor a hallucinated vision of the future, but all three simultaneously…

Pride, Pursuit, and Decapitation
By Marion Aubert
Translated by Kimberly Jannarone and Erik Butler, directed by Carey Perloff of ACT
Saturday, May 26th, 8pm @ Z Space

…a ferocious and unsparing comedy in which a mad playwright conjures up a whirlwind of hilarious unhinged scenes in lurid color to depict the everyday insanity of our world…

Out There
By Nathalie Fillion
Translated by Emily-Jane Cohen and Michelle Haner, directed by Amy Mueller of Playwrights Foundation
Sunday, May 27th, 5pm @ Z Space

…while global markets collapse and sound investments dissolve, Jean, a depressed man in his forties, propelled into euphoria by a new anti-depressant, prepares to sell off the family’s properties. A highly charged Chekhovian family drama for the 21st century…

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http://www.desvoixfestival.com/