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International Student Theater Festival TSelF to kick off June 26

June 22, 2015

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Students from ten countries will stage more than a dozen performances during this year’s ITSelF International Theatre Schools Festival, to be held in Warsaw June 26-July 1.

Most plays and performances will have English subtitles.

Eleven plays have qualified for the main festival competition. Among them are Red Light Winter, staged by the well-known Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute from New York; Slow Sound of Snow by the Soore University in Tehran, Iran; and Bastards in the Mind, brought to the festival by the Sofia Amendolea Theatre Academy from Rome, Italy.

Other plays that Warsaw audiences will see this year include Circum Mortis by the Luca School of Arts from Leuven, Belgium; The Freak Child by the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Seville, Spain; and This Property is Condemned by the Lithuanian Academy of Music Theatre in Vilnius, The Pursuit of Happiness by the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich, Germany; The Absolute Happiness of a Fly or Salvador Dali’s Latest Mystification by the Leos Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic: Lulu by the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria.

Poland will be represented in the competition by the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw with staging of The Master and Margarita as well as by The Leon Schiller National Film School in Lodz which will show The Stone.

A workshop conducted by Anna Strasberg, the artistic director and co-founder of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, will be one of the highlights of the festival.

The ITSelF Festival has been organized by Warsaw’s Theatre Academy since 2002. It aims to promote joint international projects by theatre schools. Each festival is attended by around 6,000 viewers.

For further information, go to:

www.festival.at.edu.pl