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

"春与冬的故事"是一个创造性的和批判性的调查，妇女使戏剧内和破碎的社区，在暴力之后，或在历史冲突的阴影下，在地球仪。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。《春与冬的故事》的中心统一主题是世代之间的对话，从最广泛的意义上说：老年人和年轻人之间的相遇;从过去到现在的过渡;历史的再生和更新;冬天过后春天的回归。我们的目标是找出女戏剧制作人在冲突后、散居或地球仪各地的破碎社区中为代际沟通过程带来了哪些潜在的和特殊的品质。该项目被认为是为地球仪的女戏剧工作者建立一个新的论坛和网络（妇女全球戏剧论坛）的第一步。该网站和组织的目标是让全世界现在和将来都能看到女戏剧工作者的工作;通过建立网络、加强联系、促进交流和分享做法来促进和支持她们的工作;在女戏剧工作者和从事国际发展工作的人之间建立联系。我们将与组成阿里阿德涅项目的六位女性导演合作，共同打造《亲爱的孩子们，真诚地》的新化身：卢旺达的Hope Azeda;斯里兰卡的Ruwanthie de Chickera;布隆迪的Frederique Lecomte和D.R.刚果;巴勒斯坦的伊曼·奥恩;塞尔维亚的迪贾纳·米洛舍维奇;英国的苏珊娜·蒂兰。亲爱的孩子们，真诚的，已经开始与卢旺达和斯里兰卡之间的合作希望阿泽达和鲁万蒂德奇克拉。我们将为这个正在进行的雄心勃勃的项目做出新的原创性贡献，该项目由阿里阿德涅项目发起，其中来自地球仪的戏剧制作者被邀请收集他们社区中老年人的故事。反过来，这些故事，告诉年轻一代，然后编织成表演记忆银行，一个口头文化档案，以保存和声音背后的国家故事隐藏和个人的故事。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。除了亲爱的孩子们，我们将采取对比戏剧的方法来处理隐藏的历史，代际冲突与和解的问题。剧作家兼首席研究员伊丽莎白·库蒂将写一部新剧《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：Trilby James（导演，英国）和英裔印度演员Shelley King; Shanaya Rafaat; Umar Pasha;还有Sean O'Callaghan; Madhyama Segal（舞蹈家，印度）; Kiran Segal（编舞，印度）;以及音乐家丹尼尔Dhondy和哈桑Mohyeddin。这个创造性的重新想象的冬天的故事将通过与这些国际表演者的合作，也通过历史戏剧研究，并与孟加拉社区在英国的采访。冬天的故事The Winter's Tale（莎士比亚的波希米亚-西西里交织;十六年的时间差距;对妇女的暴力和年轻一代的"愈合"的主题），加尔各答的寒冷季节将通过性别的透镜探索英印关系的交织主题;帝国的遗产;通过比较不同文化和国家边界的女性戏剧制作人的作品，该项目将揭示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，in the context背景of turbulent动荡political政治landscapes景观.

'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.