The Expanding Theater Landscapes project brings together theater artists from Para Film & Teater, Norway; Binario Vivo, Italy; and Sarajevo War Theatre, Bosnia to create three performances under the question: How to talk about refugees from a European theatre stage today?
Using devising techniques, actors from three countries will research the topic of migration.
The group will experiment with ideas first rather than being in a hurry to fix scenes and storylines. Actors will get tasks and topics to explore and be assigned to different refugee camps in Bosnia. Each assignment will result in a performative etude shown to the group. At the end of this joint working session, the group will decide the theme and problems of each play. Later, three different playwrights from Italy, Norway, and Bosnia will write each text.
After, the group will meet again to read the scripts and give feedback. Each group will rehearse their performance at the end of this writing process.
The three shows will premiere the same week in Sarajevo and be presented as three chapters of the same trilogy.