November 9th-11th 2007
Following the launch in September last year of this long term project which brings together playwrights and those who make playwriting happen in Paris and London to explore what it is to be working now in our multi-cultural cities. writernet, Soho Theatre and Goldsmiths, University of London, with the support of the Institut Francais and the British Council, came together to create the next stage of this project.
We saw and discussed, readings of short plays on the theme liberté, egalité, fraternité written in French by Alain Foix and Ahmed Ghazali, with responses written in English by Gabriel Gbadamosi.
We learnt about Oladipo Agboluaje’s week’s residency in Orly at the Theatrales Charles Dullin with Guillaume Hasson + Maria Cristina Marcangelli, and the play Knock, Knock which came out of it..
We heard about Bonnie Greer, Jonathan Meth and Gabriel Gbadmosi’s work on Gabriel’s play Abolition for forthcoming production at the Arcola Theatre in East London in 2008, and potentially in France.
We saw Roy Williams new play, Joe Guy, at Lisa Goldman’s Soho Theatre directed by Femi Elufowoju, jr Of Tiata Fahodzi and Jean Genet’s The Blacks remixed, Translated by Robert David MacDonald; Directed by Ultz and Excalibah, at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
We heard about the forthcoming production of Bonnie Greer's musical drama Marilyn and Ella, opening at the Theatre Royal Stratford East on February 15th 2008.
We (re-)met each other, continued and developed the conversations begun a year previously.
Joining us from France
Alain Foix,
Ahmed Ghazali,
Josip Rainer
Fred Fortas
Sandrine Grataloup at SACD
Guillaume Hasson + Maria Cristina Marcangelli at Theatrales Charles Dullin
Louise Doutreligne + Jean Luc Palies at EAT
Philippe Le Moine at British Council
(with apologies from Aziz Chouaki, Marion Aubert, Koffi Kwahule and Anne Sibran)
Invited from the Uk
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Bonnie Greer
Oladipo Agbolauje
Roy Williams
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Lisa Goldman
Paul Sirett
Michael Bhim
Jonathan Meth
Sophie Claudel at Institut Francais
You can find out more about the first rencontre in Paris in September 2006 by clicking on the links in the sub-menu above
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