Playwrights Foundation Launches A Festival of New Works by French and U.S. Playwrights

Playwrights Foundation has launched a new international exchange project entitled Des Voix…Found In Translation, supporting the translation of vanguard French and American playwrights. The project’s festival of new works by contemporary French and American playwrights will take place in San Francisco May 25-27, in partnership with Z Space, and in France in the fall of 2012.

Des Voix…Found In Translation is a collaboration between Playwrights Foundation and the Maison Antoine Vitez, the International Centre for Drama Translation in Paris, increasing and deepening cultural exchanges between France and the U.S.

The San Francisco festival will present translations of provocative new plays by three innovative emerging playwrights working in France today. Plays by Marion Aubert, Samuel Gallet, and Nathalie Fillion will be performed in English during a Festival.

San Francisco’s Festival will also feature a “Bal Littéraire” (May 25 at 7 pm), an event that is popular throughout France, which will include a unique hybrid of flash plays, songs, club dancing, and literature, created the week of performance by six French and American writers. The festival will also include an audience conversation entitled “Translating Experience: Talking About Experimental Theater Between Languages and Cultures” (May 27 at 1 pm).

For more information and tickets to Des Voix…Found In Translation, click here.