Echange Theatre Company

• Thematic framework: Intercultural Dialogue and Translation
• Geographical outreach: Regional
• Types of project: Disseminating information
  
  
• Beneficiary countries:
  - United Kingdom
  - France
  
  
• Main responsible:
  David Furlong
  99 Wayman Court, Eleanor Road
  London
  United Kingdom

Summary of the activities
Echange Theatre Company is established in London with the aim to produce unique works implying cultural exchange, multi-lingualism and translations. We started in Jan 2006 and have since produced 4 plays originally written in French and translated into English.

The Exchange is a bilingual play, a French masterpiece by Paul Claudel from 1893 made very contemporary to modern audience to critical acclaim. We were invited to several festivals in London.

Business is a comissioned work by a French producer for a British Audience: it tells the encounter of a Frenchman, an Englishman, and an American. It contains Russian language.

All the plays deal with cultural and language exchange. Echange Theatre would like to bring the work now to a broader audience: we're aiming to participate to the International Fringe Theatre festival in Edinburgh in August 2008.

Fundings are currently being raised. Future works will imply more than only French and English but also Spanish and Arabic.

Main partners
The French Embassy in London.
The French SACD, the writer's society in Paris.