TRANSIT I
Women's International Theatre Festival and Meeting
Directors and the dynamic patterns of theatre groups What
are women proposing?
Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark
1 - 5 November 1992
The Festival was an occasion to
continue the debate started within The Magdalena Project on women
and theatre directing. The Festival was designed as an opportunity
for theatre practitioners to show their performances and explain
the processes used to create them, for an investigation of new and
evolving ways of directing. focusing on the conducting element, be
it the group, the actor, the director or the working process
itself. The Festival presented performances directed by women, or
performances whose prime motor were women actors, performances with
only women, or performances with no director where the group's
collaboration has been essential for the result. During five days
13 performances and 11 process explanations were presented by: Odin
Teatret, Denmark; Teatro delle Radici, Switzerland; Theater im
Pumpenhaus, Germany; Voix Polyphoniques, France; Cirque Divers,
Belgium, Grenland Friteater, Norway; The Magdalena Project, Wales;
Freja, Denmark; La Otra Orilla, Germany; Koreja, Italy. The
Festival is documented with photographs by Rossella Viti and a
video recording by Leo Sykes. The video is available from Odin
Teatret Film.