Focus : Sweden
FOCUS is a cyclical event accompanying the KORCZAK TODAY Festival, which aims to popularize knowledge about theater for children and young people from a selected country.
This year’s edition aims to outline a panorama of Swedish theater for young audiences, taking into account the most interesting phenomena and developments in Swedish drama.
Playwrights and playwrights, playwrights and playwrights, and researchers of theater for children and young people from Sweden, invited to FOCUS, will tell us about their experiences working with theater for children and young people: Dimen Hama Abdulla, Rebecka Brinch, Åsa Lindholm, Anna Lund, Ylva Lorentzon, Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Erik Uddenberg, Stefan Åkesson and Rebecca Örtman.
FOCUS will take the form of a one-day conference during which there will be a panel on the directions of new drama for children and young people, the experience of playwrights’ collaboration with institutional and alternative theaters, and the challenges arising from the nature of this work.
The panel will also include the premiere of an anthology of plays for young people published by the Children’s Art Center in Poznan as part of the New Plays for Children and Young People series with texts by Dimen Hama Abdulli, Mattias Andersson, Athena Farrokhzad, Åsa Lindholm, Robin N Spegel, Talajeh Nasiri and Erik Uddenberg translated by Dominika Górecka.
The second highlight of FOCUS will be the presentation of the results of a study conducted at Stockholm University, “Staging Migration: Rhetoric, Representation and Reception in Swedish Children’s Theater,” and the presentation of a reading of Rebecca Örtman’s drama, “Today is Today,” inspired by the texts of Janusz Korczak.
FOCUS events will also be accompanied by screenings of two plays Acting School of Halina and Jan Machulski, based on contemporary Swedish texts for young people: “Blush” (inspired by the text “Girls will make you blush” by Åsa Lindholm, directed by Ewa Galica) and “Run on.” Based on the text “Gå vidare” by Kristian Hallberg, directed by Benjamin Koc.
The curator of FOCUS: SWEDEN is Dominika Górecka.
PARTNERS
New Theater, the Swedish Council for Culture and the Arts, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Children’s Art Center in Poznan.
FOCUS : SWEDEN has received the support of Swedish Council for Culture and the Arts
AUTHORS
PROGRAM
October 19, 2024, KONOPACKIE’S PALACE, Strzelecka 11/13
19:00 – show of the performance “Blush”, dir.Ewa Galica Performance for young people aged 16 and over Free tickets can be picked up at www.biletyna.pl
October 20, 2024, KONOPACKIE’S PALACE, Strzelecka 11/13
19:00 – show of the performance “Run on,” dir. Performance for young people aged 16 and over Free tickets can be picked up at www.biletyna.pl
October 21, 2024, NEW THEATRE, Madalińskiego 10/16
10.00 – 12.00 pm The drama of writing texts for young people. New Swedish dramaturgy. Panel with Dimen Hama Abdulla, Åsa Lindholm, Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Erik Uddenberg and Stefan Åkesson. The premiere of the anthology “Games for the Future. An anthology of Swedish plays for young people” (published by the Children’s Art Center in Poznań, 53rd issue of the New Arts for Children and Young People series). Hosted by: Dominika Górecka and Dorota Kowalkowska.
Conversation in Swedish with translation into Polish.
12.00 – 12.15 Coffee break
12.15 – 14.00 Drama of staging texts for young people. Table talks with invited guests.
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 – 16.30 Staging Migration. Rhetoric, Representation, and Reception in Swedish Children’s Theater .
Presentation of research by Anna Lund, Rebecka Brinch, and Ylva Lorentzon from Stockholm University. Presentation in English with Polish translation.
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 – 18.00 Conversation with playwright Rebecca Örtman, reading of her play Today Is Today. The discussion will be held in Swedish with Polish translation. The play reading (video) will be in Swedish with Polish subtitles.
FOCUS: SWEDEN is open to the public, and no registration is required. We warmly invite you to participate! Please sign up here: zapisy@korczak-festival.pl