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Waiting for Les Émigrants , 13.01.2024 T héâtre l’Odeon, Paris Mehmet Kerem Özel The 80-year-old famous Polish theatre master Krystian Lupa's last play for the time being, Les Émigrants (The Emigrants), was finally premiered on 13 January 2024 at the Théâtre l'Odeon in Paris, after a painful process that has been reflected in public opinion since the second half of 2023. I would like to talk about the painful process of its creation, but first I would like to share my impressions of the play, which I had the chance to see at its world premiere. Lupa has adapted The Émigrants from the book of the same name by the Austrian writer W. G. Sebald. The book consists of four long narratives, which are biographical essays about the lives of four people whose paths are crossed by the narrator in the first person, somewhere between reality and fiction. The narrator has based the lives of these four people on his own encounters with them, their diaries, photo albums, conversations wit...

© Emilia Therese Danish playwright and theater director Christian Lollike (1973) was among the participants of Nordic Focus, which was held for the first time this year as part of the New Text Festival. Within the scope of the event supported by the Danish Embassy, Danish Cultural Institute, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danish Ministry of Culture, Danish Consulate, Consulate General of Sweden, the Swedish Research Institute and the Swedish Arts Council, Lollike's play Cosmic Fear or Brad Pitt's Day of Paranoia  was performed as a staged reading. Lollike is working with stage and installation art in theaters, public areas and virtual platforms. He has produced a comprehensive amount of theatre texts and his texts are being played in and outside Europe. During the last couple of years, Lollike’s work has been dealing more and more with inter-aesthetics and he has made a ballet, an opera installation and a political party. His artistic drive derives from wanting to underst...

© Jan Versweyveld A large empty space in the middle of the stage; the floor of the space is orange-red, near the center of the space stands a white pedestal sink. This is Jude's domain. Jude's painful past comes to life here, and all the characters who made him suffer appear here. In the present where the play takes place, Jude repeatedly leans against the foot of the sink sitting in front of it on the floor and cuts into his arms. The blood falls to the floor; its orange-red color comes from being bathed in Jude's blood over the years. The narrow long spaces around this large empty space on the stage are the places of Jude's friends; the kitchen of the house where he was adopted at a late age, the architect’s office, the painter's workshop, the doctor's office. All these spaces surround the gap in the middle, just as all of his friends surround and embrace Jude, sensing his injury and trying to avoid him from his pains. Each one of them; one as his lover by car...