The objectives of this project are to highlight European contemporary playwrights and their work, create a pool of interesting contemporary texts for ETC Members, and support the international trajectory of text-based theatre plays through translation.

Inspired by an idea for a play from the Austrian author Magdalena Schrefel, Schauspielhaus Graz would like to invite ETC members to participate in a joint project, in which you can commission a local author to write a dramatic text dealing with the question “Which kind of drama does fossil energy provoke in your country?”

ETC is organising professional training seminars throughout the year. They offer a chance to develop professional skills, promote peer-to-peer learning and foster international networking between the Member Theatres.

The next edition of the ETC International Theatre Conference will be held online from 25 to 27 November 2020.

The “European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus” is an international platform for vision, discourse, exchange, networking and policymaking to strategically strengthen the structurally highly fragmented European theatre sector.

The ETC’s artistic collaboration project Young Europe III focuses on theatre as a place of identification for young people in Europe.

Supporting emerging theatre artists by offering new perspectives and professional artistic experiences in a European public theatre. 

Our Stage introduces the idea of Bürgerbühne (literally “citizens’ stage”) – which is run the same way as a professional in-house production company but involves nonprofessional actors – as a new form of creative community outreach via artistic collaboration and as a new artistic business model.

Grants available! ETC offers all technical, administrative and artistic personnel from Member Theatres the opportunity to exchange know-how and techniques at an ETC Member Theatre in another European country for a period of up to four weeks.

Since 2014, Theatre is Dialogue – Dialogue of Cultures has been supporting artists and theatres in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries in their efforts to set in motion fruitful exchanges and networking opportunities with colleagues across Europe.

NADIA was an international theatre collaboration project between five theatres from five different countries focusing on exploring the reasons of radicalisation of young people in western societies, and the attraction to join the Caliphate.

Documents, videos and presentations from our recent workshops and webinars on 'Green Theatre'

Videos and recorded sessions from our biannual International Theatre Conferences