Festival Opera Prima

This call for entries is opened to italian and international groups or artists that practice experimental theatre.
EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE is the proposal of a work that really experiments with the dramaturgy (interpreted as scenic composition), the actor, the spectator and the scenic space.
In other words, experimental theatre is all that unconventional theatre pursuing:
the autonomy of scenic language from a written play; the redefinition of the scenic space; the  reformulation of the role and the gaze of the spectator; an original actors' training; a deep connection between the actors, the company and its poetic.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

The call is opened to Italian and international individuals or groups working professionally in the field of professional theatre and performing arts, structured in any legal form that allows them to fulfill the administrative and bureaucratic practices necessary to realize their performance.
Only artistic projects that realize an experimentation with scenic languages, according to the points mentioned above, are eligible for selection. Amateur works, drama theater and performances of entertainment won’t be taken in account. The Festival commission selects both original works that have not been yet performed, as well as works that have already debut, but which have not had an adequate circulation and / or visibility. The festival is normally not programming performances longer than 60 minutes.

The selected performances are going to be included in the 2020 edition of Festival Opera Prima.
All expenses and practices concerning organization, communication, staff, promotion of the event will be in charge of the organization of the Festival.
At each selected company will be paid, after the presentation of an invoice, a fee that has to be agreed and will be guaranteed the possibility of lodging at an affiliated guest house (just for the people working in the performance).

CALENDAR AND PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

All the performances are going to be realized in Rovigo inside the spaces used by the Festival from the 10th to the 13th September 2020. It is possible to realize performances also in unconventional locations and outdoor. The artistic direction can ask to the selected company to realize more replies of the performance.