Continuing our work to expand the European Theatre canon and offer new opportunities for emerging writers, audiences and invisibilised artists.

ETC’s award-winning Young Europe programme for young audiences returns for a fifth edition, based on a ‘Dramaturgy of Care’. We will also work to further the practical application of gender balance and diversity to European theatre practices.

ETC Translation Grants: Call for Texts 2026

In the season 2025/2026, ETC will support up to two new European contemporary drama texts and their international trajectory by circulating them within its membership and financially participating in their translation into English, thus expanding its pool of interesting contemporary texts from all over Europe. 

Interested ETC Member Theatres are asked to apply with one text of a contemporary author they work with and see as relevant for international audiences. 

The ETC theatres whose plays will be selected will receive a grant (up to €1,500) for translation into English. They will be in charge of organising the translation into English.