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Youth Theatre- A Casebook
Download PDF‘Youth Theatre – A Casebook’ was the third ETC Casebook produced in 2020. It’s a publication for theatre professionals, presenting reflection and best-practice examples to make theatre with and for young people.
5 countries, 9 theatres, 3 artistic research teams, 7 new plays, 9 productions
The European Theatre Convention’s artistic collaboration project Young Europe III focused on theatre as a place of identification for young people in Europe. Over two years, nine ETC Member Theatres collaborated in groups of three to develop new theatre texts and productions on the topics of rage, democracy, identity and the future.
From in-depth performative research with teenagers from Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia, the artistic teams identified major themes for new plays to expand European multilingual drama for young audiences.
Nine different productions were created throughout the theatre season 2019-2020 across Europe. These add to the ever-growing European repertoire of contemporary plays for young people, in the frame of the Young Europe initiative since 2008.
Youth Theatre – A Casebook was written to conclude the Young Europe Festival, which was hosted online in June 2021 in Graz, Austria.