Theater
4th New Europe International Festival: Love
4th edition of the New Europe International Festival: Love September - December 2023
Can we still talk about love? Do we even know what love is? Stretched between Saint Paul’s Song of Songs and its more radical version penned by Paul B. Preciado, we still design universal fantasies which are then quickly elevated into binding standards. We keep defining something that eludes both definition and attempts at monetization. We sell love, but have no idea how to awaken it in another person.
Maybe it’s high time we finally redefine love? Recast it to include unfulfillment, rejection, revulsion, pharmacopornography, sexual hell, violence, and erotic flowers of evil, so nihilistic and yet so alluring? And then draw pleasure from this force so unreasonable, unromantic, carnal, destructive, redeeming, and liberating?
A strange thing it is, to desire something that straddles boundaries, but remains ceaselessly elusive.
Love is all you need? But what does that even mean?
Taking a stand against the increasingly ephemeral and festival-centric character of cultural life, we chose an ongoing formula for our event, which will run from September to December. We want to avoid framing our shows as fleeting, transient events, but want to turn them into a consistent practice of meeting with important theater artists from Europe and all over the globe.
Join us as we experience, discover, and confront a rich variety of perspectives, as well as engage in debate and conversation.
The curators of the 4th New Europe International Festival: Love include: Olga Drygas, Piotr Gruszczyński, and Karolina Ochab.
Festival program:
September 14–15, 2023 Fuck me Marina Otero
September 16–17, 2023 Love me Marina Otero
October 13–14, 2023 Seek Bromance Samira Elagoz
November 17–18, 2023 2020:Obscene Alexandra Bachzetsis
December 15–16, 2023 A Plot/A Scandal Ligia Lewis
Tickets: 60/40 PLN
Two-show passes for Marina Otero: 100/60 PLN (available only in the theater ticket office)
Funding for the festival has been provided by the City of Warsaw.
Partners: Instituto Cervantes, Goethe Institut
Past events
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A PLOT / A SCANDAL
Theater
15.12–16.12.2023A PLOT / A SCANDAL
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2020: OBSCENE
Theater
17.11–18.11.20232020: OBSCENE
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SEEK BROMANCE
Theater
13.10–14.10.2023SEEK BROMANCE
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Love Me | 4th New Europe International Festival: Love
Theater
16.09–17.09.2023Love Me | 4th New Europe International Festival: Love
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Fuck Me
Theater / Dance
14.09–15.09.2023Fuck Me
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Literature
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The New Book
Literature
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Theater
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