Intercity Festival 2005, Florence
This year's Intercity Festival has set its sights on Edinburgh. The festival will see eight new Scottish works translated and performed for European and international audiences.
Intercity is an annual international festival; connecting Sesto Friorentino and Florence with some of the world’s most important capital cities.
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Regarded as one of Italy and Europe’s most important annual festivals, Intercity puts on an average of two to five theatrical productions. The productions are based on the texts of contemporary international playwrights and directed by both Italian and foreign directors. These plays are then published under the name Intercity Plays. The festival is enhanced with shows, videos and public readings amongst its offerings. |
‘Young unknowns’ as well as established names are given the chance to show their work – something that the festival’s organisers Teatro della Limonaia has been committed to for 20 years.
In recent years, Berlin, Athens and São Paulo have been the focus of the festival. The festival has done much to introduce the Italian public to contemporary drama, performing over 120 works. In Italy and abroad, the productions have enjoyed critics’ and audience acclaim.
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In its 18th year Intercity Festival is setting its sights on Edinburgh, which the organisers regard as ‘a great capital city of theatre’. As such, it falls very naturally within the project.
From the festival’s library, a section of which is dedicated to Scottish authors, eight new plays will be translated and performed. |
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Amongst the highlights of this years festival are:
- The Found Man, a co-production by the Traverse Theatre, Intercity Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival. This production was commissioned by the Traverse to the Glasgow playwright Riccardo Galgani. Premiering in Florence with an Italian cast, it will later be staged with a Scottish cast at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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- Guests at the festival include Suspect Culture, who will present A Different Language, their co-production with the Italian il Rossetti. In addition to this, Suspect Culture’s director Graham Eatough will lead the symposium Global Revue, that should form the basis for a common production project which may be the core of a future Intercity festival.
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Read more about A Different Language in the Suspect Culture project article |
- Russell Barr will be visiting with his production and performance in Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters, having just toured it across the UK.
- ‘Intercity Connections’ will enable the staging of three works by Scottish playwrights including Jackie Kay, Ali Smith and Sharman Macdonald; and in the Mises en espaces section, the festival will produce the Italian premieres of Iain Heggie’s Wiping my Mother’s Arse, and God’s New Frock by John Clifford.
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