Tales of Spring and Winter: Gender, Histories and Intergenerational Exchange in Global Theatre

《春与冬的故事》是对女性在暴力之后或在历史冲突的阴影下，在全球范围内为破碎的社区制作戏剧的创造性和批判性调查。我们将直接与来自卢旺达、布隆迪、刚果、巴勒斯坦、塞尔维亚、斯里兰卡和印度的艺术家合作。《春冬故事集》的中心统一主题是世代之间的对话，在最广泛的意义上：老年人与年轻人的相遇；从过去到现在的过渡；历史的再生与更新；冬去春来冬去春来我们的目标是找出女性戏剧制作人在全球冲突后、散居或分裂社区的代际桥梁建设过程中所带来的潜在和特殊品质。该项目被认为是为全球女性戏剧从业者创建一个新的论坛和网络（全球女性戏剧论坛）的第一步。这个网站和组织的目标是让世界看到女性戏剧从业者的工作，无论是现在还是将来；通过建立网络、加强联系、促进交流和分享实践经验，进一步推动和支持他们的工作；并在女性戏剧从业者和国际发展工作者之间建立联系。这个项目是围绕创作两个新的原创表演而展开的。我们将与阿里阿德涅项目的六位女导演合作，为《亲爱的孩子们，真诚地》制作一个新的化身：卢旺达的霍普·阿泽达；来自斯里兰卡的Ruwanthie de Chickera；来自布隆迪和刚果民主共和国的Frederique Lecomte；巴勒斯坦的伊曼·奥恩；塞尔维亚的米洛舍维奇（Dijana Milosevic）；Susannah Tresilian来自英国。“亲爱的孩子们，真诚地”已经开始于霍普·阿泽达和鲁旺蒂·德·奇克拉之间的卢旺达-斯里兰卡合作。在阿里阿德涅计划的推动下，我们将为这个正在进行的雄心勃勃的项目做出新的原创贡献。在这个项目中，来自世界各地的戏剧制作人被邀请从他们社区的老人那里收集故事。反过来，这些故事被讲述给年轻一代，然后被编织成表演性的记忆库，一个口头的文化档案，保存和表达国家故事背后隐藏的个人故事。在这个合作项目中，我们将在新的方向上扩展和发展这个雄心勃勃的全球代际项目。与《亲爱的孩子们，真诚》一起，我们将采用对比鲜明的戏剧手法来处理隐藏的历史、代际冲突与和解等问题。剧作家兼首席研究员Elizabeth Kuti将创作一部新剧《加尔各答的寒冷季节》，灵感来自莎士比亚的《冬天的故事》。参与这部作品的艺术家有：特鲁比·詹姆斯（英国导演）和英裔印度演员雪莱·金；Shanaya Rafaat;奥马尔帕夏;还有肖恩·奥卡拉汉；Madhyama Segal（舞蹈家，印度）；Kiran Segal（编舞，印度）；以及音乐家Daniel Dhondy和Hassan mohyedin。通过与这些国际演员的合作，以及对历史戏剧的研究，以及对英国孟加拉社区的采访，我们将对《冬天的故事》进行创造性的重新想象。《加尔各答的寒冷季节》将《冬天的故事》的关键元素（莎士比亚对波西米亚-西西里岛的交织；16年的时间差距；对妇女的暴力以及年轻一代对老一代的“治愈”的主题）进行调换，将通过性别的镜头探索英印关系的相互关联的主题；帝国的遗产；移民、性别和代际斗争。通过比较不同文化和国界的女性戏剧制作人的作品，该项目将揭示在动荡的政治环境下，世界各地的女性戏剧制作人如何重新讲述个人和国家故事的新见解。

'Tales of Spring and Winter' is a creative and critical investigation into women making theatre within and for fractured communities, in the wake of violence, or in the shadow of historical conflicts, around the globe. We will be working directly with artists from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Palestine, Serbia, Sri Lanka and India. The central unifying theme of Tales of Spring and Winter is dialogue between the generations, in the broadest sense: encounters between old and young; transitions from past to present; historical regeneration and renewal; the return of spring after winter. Our aim is to find out what underlying and particular qualities women theatre-makers bring to the processes of generational bridge-building, in post-conflict, diasporic or fractured communities across the globe. This project is conceived as the first step towards creating a new forum and network for women theatre practitioners around the globe (the Women's Global Theatre Forum). The goal of this website and organization is to make the work of women theatre practitioners visible to the world, now and in the future; to further and support their work through networking, strengthening links, facilitating communication and sharing practice; and to forge connections between women theatre practitioners and those working in international development.This project is structured around the creation of two new original performances. We will be collaborating on a new incarnation of Dear Children, Sincerely, by working with the six female directors who comprise Project Ariadne: Hope Azeda of Rwanda; Ruwanthie de Chickera from Sri Lanka; Frederique Lecomte from Burundi and D.R. Congo; Iman Aoun in Palestine; Dijana Milosevic in Serbia; and Susannah Tresilian, UK. Dear Children, Sincerely, has already begun with a Rwandan-Sri Lankan collaboration between Hope Azeda and Ruwanthie de Chickera. We will be crafting a new and original contribution to this on-going ambitious project, instigated by Project Ariadne, in which theatre-makers from around the globe have been invited to collect stories from elders in their communities. In turn these stories, as told to the younger generation, are then woven together into performative memory-banks, an oral cultural archive, to preserve and give voice to the hidden and personal stories behind national stories. In this collaborative project we will extend and develop in new directions this ambitious global intergenerational project.Alongside Dear Children Sincerely, we will be taking a contrasting dramaturgical approach to the issues of hidden histories, intergenerational conflict and reconciliation. Playwright and Principal Investigator, Elizabeth Kuti will be writing a new play, Cold Season in Calcutta, inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The artists involved in this piece are: Trilby James (director, UK) and the Anglo-Indian actors, Shelley King; Shanaya Rafaat; Umar Pasha; also Sean O'Callaghan; Madhyama Segal (dancer, India); Kiran Segal (Choreographer, India); and musicians Daniel Dhondy and Hassan Mohyeddin. This creative re-imagining of The Winter's Tale will be informed by collaboration with these international performers, and also by historical theatre research, and interviews with the Bengali community in the UK. Transposing key elements of The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare's intertwining of Bohemia-Sicily; the sixteen-year Time gap; the theme of violence against women and the younger generation's "healing" of the older generation), Cold Season in Calcutta will explore, through the lens of gender, interlocking themes of the Anglo-Indian relationship; the legacy of empire; the diaspora, gender and intergenerational struggle.Through comparing the work of women theatre makers across cultures and national borders, this project will uncover new insights into the way women theatre makers across the world are re-telling personal and national stories, in the context of turbulent political landscapes.