The Context of Creativity: Creating New Drama and Film about East German Theatre Censorship

为了纪念柏林围墙倒塌25周年，爱丁堡大学将委托获奖剧作家彼得·阿诺特根据劳拉·布拉德利的AHRC资助的研究撰写一部关于东德戏剧审查的戏剧。这个为期一年的项目是与苏格兰剧作家工作室合作开发的，旨在加深对东德独裁政权如何运作和最终崩溃的理解，并激发对审查制度和戏剧政治潜力的辩论和思考。该项目将于2014年11月启动现场表演活动，随后由Peter Arnott每月撰写博客，剧本开发研讨会，剧本草稿的公开阅读，以及完成剧本的排练阅读之旅。电影制片人苏珊肯普将制作一部70分钟的纪录片，将遵循阿诺特的创作之旅，因为他从事的研究和发展他的发挥与演员和观众。因此，这部电影将使阿诺特和剧作家工作室反思苏格兰今天的剧作家状况，与民主德国相比。它将同时向更广泛的观众开放东德戏剧审查的主题以及阿诺特和剧作家工作室的工作，包括可能对上演该剧感兴趣的德国和英国的戏剧从业者。该项目将在2015年8月的爱丁堡边缘艺术节上进行为期一天的展示活动，包括对戏剧的阅读，电影的放映以及关于审查的圆桌辩论。与会者将包括国际戏剧从业者和评论家，他们将利用这部东德戏剧开始一场关于当今审查经验的国际对话。这部电影将进入电影节，并提交给英国广播公司四台的委托编辑，并将在苏格兰和柏林安排进一步的放映。

The University of Edinburgh will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by commissioning the award-winning playwright Peter Arnott to write a play about East German theatre censorship, based on Laura Bradley's AHRC-funded research. This year-long project has been developed in partnership with the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland, and it is designed to enhance understanding of how the East German dictatorship functioned and eventually crumbled, and to stimulate debate and reflection on censorship and the political potential of theatre. The project will be launched with a live performance event in November 2014, followed by a monthly blog by Peter Arnott, a script development workshop, a public reading of the draft script, and a tour of rehearsed readings of the finished play. The filmmaker Susan Kemp will make a 70-minute documentary film that will follow Arnott's creative journey as he engages with the research and develops his play with actors and an audience. The film will thus allow Arnott and the Playwrights' Studio to reflect on the situation of playwrights in Scotland today, compared to the GDR. It will simultaneously open up the subject of East German theatre censorship and the work of Arnott and the Playwrights' Studio to a wider audience, including theatre practitioners in Germany and the UK who may be interested in staging the play. The project will culminate in a day-long showcase event at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2015, featuring a reading of the play, a screening of the film, and a roundtable debate on censorship. The participants will include international theatre practitioners and critics, who will use the East German play to start an international conversation about experiences of censorship today. The film will be entered at festivals and submitted to the commissioning editor at BBC Four, and further screenings will be arranged in Scotland and Berlin.