We need new stories for new times. As the map of Europe continues to be redrawn, the creation and exchange of new voices is crucial to the articulation of and engagement with the changing needs of an increasingly diverse continent. Those excluded by geography, ethnic origin, gender and disability can be re-empowered by the telling and sharing of new tales. But first these voices must be found, then accessed into existing systems and nurtured via appropriate support.
The Fence is a project for working playwrights across Europe and key figures who make playwriting happen.
The Fence aims to open up routes to work opportunities for playwrights seeking to extend their work beyond their own national infrastructural boundaries. Information is made available through the country profiles section, which characterises how new writing is developed and produced throughout Europe.
Initially a collaboration between writernet, The British Council and Creative Renewal, and in association with the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM), the Fence was launched with an international writers’ retreat at the Hurst in Shropshire in October 2003, and then as a Meeting Group at the IETM in Birmingham exploring the practice of contemporary dramatic writing in many culturally diverse European contexts.
writernet has since built on the success of the opening phase of The Fence by growing the network of over 100 playwrights and gatekeepers via face-to-face encounters in Budapest, Graz, Belgrade, Tampere, Amsterdam, Graz, Leeds and Istanbul.
You can find out in much more detail by clicking on the above headings.
The Fence has been funded by the Equal, European Social Fund, via the Creative Renewal Project, The EU Culture 2000 programme and the British Council.
 
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