Carmen: The State of Exception

2012

Carmen: The State of Exception

2012, Performance- Workshop-Exhibition

Concept: Nadia Tsulukidze

The partnership for this project brings together:
Moving Theatre (lead partner, a UK production company)
Radio Romania International (International broadcaster),
Theatre Ephemeride (French theatre),
Radio and Association Green Wave (Georgian NGO and Radio organization)
Tbilisi VasoAbashidze Music and Drama State Theatre (Georgian theatre)

“Carmen is European intercultural dialogue; inspired by a Pushkin poem, the story of a Spanish gypsy, written as a novella in French. Many of the story’s key themes are central to the question of what it is to be European. Many countries believe that Carmen is in some special sense “theirs”. And so in re-telling this story through a partnership, which represents “old” and “new” Europe, we can produce a new adaptation, which brings these trans-European themes alive. “
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Jonathan Banatvala

The project is building on the exploration and the achievements of the work of each partner.Association and Radio Green Wave under this whole project realized 1 day performance Ready for Love or Seven Fragments of Identity and 2 day live-streamed event Carmen: The state of Exception created by Nadia Tsulukidze. The project was a working process in an apartment during which discussions became a public performance with the interaction of the audience, making each participant to a performer. The audience could follow the performance live in Internet and influence the discussions through a forum published on the same website. By the end of two working days participants of the workshop presented their works for the live audience.