The latest news
The Union of Theatres in Europe becomes the PLURINATIONAL HOUSE UTE. Right now, our aim is to get this concept clearer and brighter. We make choices in order to give the audience a global view on the Union, on her unitcity, on her originar magic. With 64 stages, more than 10.000 performances a year and about 3 millions of audience, we want to offer a common one year-program. It will involve several shows from all the theatres members, giving new perspectives to international creativity. We decided to focus on some specific european productions, but also on conferences, public meetings, exhibitions, issues and publications.UTE continues playing a leading role in the development of a fresh and lively international culture. She has three different long-terme projets, involving several challenging activities : TEATRO DEL MEDITERRANEO, ODISSEIA and PARADISE LOST (work title). Meetings, permanent workshops, studies, groups of multidisciplinar discussions, reflexions around the shows themselves. So some of our festivals will get a more intimate and private dimension. Those are the leading points of a very new international cooperation in the field of creativity, aimed by the new UTE. Internal exchange and internal mobility will be two others important elements of UTE's conceptions. Here are our tasks for the future : professional meetings, crossed public relations, dialogue and forums around dramaturgy, technics, direction, administration. But this is not all. Before the end of this year, our work will be able to express itself through a new model of festival : THE NOMAD AUDIENCE FESTIVAL (work title). It will specifically gather some of the most interesting performances in Europe. It will not take place in a single city, but in many different places : the shows will be performed in nineteen different theatres, at the same time. A kind of choral event underlining the value and the exception of every performance, under the sign of the harmony. This is a strong change in the perspectives : shows are not going to be on tour. For the first time, the audience will travel indeed, get from one show to each other. A CATALOGUE will be produced, in order to explain to the travellers how to reach every place and at what time. So, a guide for this great cultural adventure. Than, this projet will open the diffusion of an attractive cultural program. A « nomad audience » will travel from theatre to theatre, from stage to stage, in order to see the shows and to understand them, considering the very same context they where born in. During two months and a half, the NOMAD AUDIENCE FESTIVAL will travel in Europe. At its end, some groups of audience and the official delegues of every theatre will meet. This meeting will be a chance, a special event on two days. It will be also an important moment of dialogue, of discovery, of mutual understanding. It will be possible to share opinions and projects on several levels : verbally, artistically and in writing.