Romanian playwright Peca Stefan will run a one-week workshop at the National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
The National Student Drama Festival is a week-long celebration of theatre, live-performances discussions and special events, attended by more than 600 students.
Peca Stefan will run the workshop on his play Romania 21. He will be accompanied by a group of up to 30 theatre students, who will follow his lecture, take an active part in analyzing and discussion and finally help him set up a rehearsed reading of the play - some of them through acting or directing.
Stefan won the dramAcum prize (the Romanian award for best new playwright) in 2002. His education includes New York University and he was one of the Royal Court International Playwriting Residents in 2005. Currently, he has productions of 6 of his plays in Bucharest, Romania: The Sunshine Play, New York [Fuckin' City], Bucharest Calling, I Hate Helen, Station, Coolors. His play Romania 21 is currently in production at the National Theatre in Timisoara. His plays have been translated into English (The Sunshine Play, Bucharest Calling, Colors, Romania 21, The Complete Truth About the Life and Death of Kurt Cobain, New York [Fuckin' City], I Hate Helen), French, German, Turkish, Italian and Bulgarian. His work has been presented in New York, London (as part of the Royal Court International Residency), Dublin, Berlin, Graz and Leeds (Janus project), Paris, Lyon, Sankt Petersburg, Rome and in many national festivals in Romania.
The Romanian Cultural Institute in London supports Peca Stefan's participation at NSDF - with more theatre projects to come!
When: 29 March - 4 April
Where: Spa Complex, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
