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1st World Festival of Youth Theatre
1st World Festival of Youth Theatre
17th to 26th July 2009
Vienna / Austria
RIGHT and WRONG
“wienXtra”, one of the biggest NGOs for children and youth in Vienna, in co-operation with OEBV (Austrian National Centre of AITA/IATA) and AITA/IATA, are organising the 1st World Festival of Youth Theatre to take place in Vienna from 17-26 July 2009.
The theme of the Festival will focus on today's society in which many people, especially ones in positions of responsibility and others, who have an exaggerated sense of their own importance, seem not to recognise the difference between right and wrong any longer. What seems right to one person can be wrong to others.
Because of their position, some people believe they have the right to disregard justice or common law or the rules. Do we have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong? Is there a limit? Does the law set the rules and restrictions or is it our social conscious, our feelings, our tolerance…. Or is it power, violence, ignorance?
Do young people have new creative ideas or thoughts that they can communicate on stage to the audience? Is there anything in the so called “classic stage literature” that still carries today’s values? What options do we have today to make visible what is right and what is wrong in order to prepare a platform for discussion?
Youth Theatre ensembles of different genres, types and styles of performing arts (theatre in combination with dance, character, music…) from all over the world are invited.
For further information contac Josef Hollos, Project Manager, on josef.hollos@wienxtra.at
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