Playground
Playground is a European project in which Heartefact collaborates with partner organizations from Italy (PAV, EURADIA), France (MOUSSON D’ETE), and Romania (TEATRUL ARIEL) during the period of 2024-2026. The project is dedicated to developing new dramatic texts by young playwrights, offering them the opportunity to have their texts translated into partner languages and to collaborate with international directors, performers, and translators.
The project’s innovation lies in its design, which aims to establish a more complex and comprehensive collaboration among the various professions involved in the theater process—playwrights, directors, translators, and performers. Three young writers from Serbia will have the opportunity to attend a one-week residency in one of the partner countries, where they will practically examine the first versions of their texts through work with directors, actors, and translators. Afterward, based on feedback, they will refine their texts to the final stage, when their texts are translated into partner languages, thus enabling their visibility in the international theater community. Similarly, young writers from Romania, Italy, and France will reside in Belgrade and collaborate with our teams, practically exploring the connection between different sectors in the development and translation of dramatic texts. Through this project, we aim to map and encourage the creation of an international community of playwrights, strengthen and develop the knowledge and skills of young writers for their future careers, provide them with greater visibility in an international context, and develop digital tools that will make the distribution of texts more sustainable and inclusive. The Playground project is funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe program.