The Third EASTAP Confernence 2020. Context, themes, structures

As a logical follow-up to the Paris and Lisbon editions, which focused on decentralisation and shared memory(ies) of the European contemporary stage, this third EASTAP Conference sought to examine creating for the stage from past to present and across practice and theory, as well as to establish and support dialogue between different cultures and customs in a moment, our present time, when the idea of Europe has been called into question and new global conflicts have emerged. The Conference structure included two main areas of investigation – which, in turn, regarded theories of textual composition and practices of textual composition; theories of performance creation, or “writing for the stage”, and practices of “writing for the stage”. With the express intent to embed the EASTAP Conference in the Festival VIE 2020 (International Theatre Festival), we foregrounded dialogue on the creative process with artists.