DoSEL Partners Meeting and Capacity Building Training in Tallinn 2025
DoSEL – Drama of Small European Languages
Partners Meeting and Capacity Building Training
February 6th to 9th 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia
SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 6th
Arrival and check-in at Nunne Boutique Hotel (Nunne 14)
19:00 Dinner and Partners meeting
Location: Estonian Theatre Agency (Uus 5)
Topics:
- WP2 finalizing the details, timing, and participants of the artistic residency – led by Giuliana Barbaro-Sant
- WP4 capacity building – success stories of plays in translation, originally written in smaller European languages – led by Jonathan Meth
- Catching up
Friday, February 7th
10:00–13:00 Partners meeting
Location: Rehearsal hall of the Von Krahl Theatre (Telliskivi 60a-9)
Topics:
- WP2 selection of texts for translation and the dates of translation workshops – led by Dino Pešut
- WP2 artistic residency and WP4 success stories – continuing last night’s discussion – led by Giuliana Barbaro-Sant and Jonathan Meth
- Next deliverables – led by Barbara Rovere and Rok Bozovičar
- Any other business
13:00–14:00 Lunch at Von Krahl Theatre restaurant
14:00–16:00 Capacity building seminar by Dramatikkens hus (Norway) dramaturge Kaia Fransiska Frostmann Lundenes
Location: Rehearsal hall of the Von Krahl Theatre (Telliskivi 60a-9)
Topic: The talk will provide an overview of Dramatikkens hus’ curation and dramaturgical processes, which aim to contribute to the democratization of the field. It will explore how this approach shapes our international work and influences the selection of projects and playwrights. Finally, the talk will touch on Dramatikkens hus’ future plans and the ongoing development of contemporary theater practices.
16:30–18:00 Artist talk and guided tour at the exhibition “The Life and Death of Mr. N: Bourgeois Spaces” by Urmas Lüüs, one of our most notable contemporary theatre and visual artist with an obscure but amazing sense of dramaturgy
Location: KUMU art museum (A. Weizenbergi 34)
Urmas Lüüs takes us into the house-museum of the fictional character Mr. N, telling the story of the birth of the bourgeoisie in Estonia, with the help of new objects by Lüüs and works from museum collections.
18:30 Dinner
Location: NOP (J. Köleri 1)
Saturday, February 8th
10:30 Meeting in front of the hotel to go to the Estonian Drama Theatre together
11:00–14:00 Video recording: Estonian Drama Theatre’s “Business As Usual” (“Rahamaa” – author Mehis Pihla, director Hendrik Toompere jr)
Location: Small hall of the Estonian Drama Theatre (Pärnu mnt 5)
A black comedy, based on documentary materials, of greed that unveils the mechanisms of modern financial colonialism in Eastern Europe—specifically in Estonia, involving one of the largest Scandinavian banks and its stakeholders.
14:00–15:30 Lunch together with the author and the troupe of “Business As Usual”
Location: NOK NOK (Vana-Posti 7)
16:00–19:00 Capacity building workshop together with members of the Estonian Theatre Directors’ and Dramaturges’ Union
Location: Estonian Theatre Agency (Uus 5)
Topic: How to create and keep up an information flow of new drama among participating countries?
19:00 Dinner
Location: C’est La Vie (Suur-Karja 5)
Sunday, February 9th
Individual departures