publishing
Icarus Publishing Enterprise
(Holstebro - Malta - Wroclaw)
Considering that 50% of all books in translation worldwide are from English while only 6% are translated into English, Odin Teatret (Denmark), The Grotowski Institute (Poland) and Theatre Arts Researching the Foundations (Malta) have created Icarus Publishing Enterprise whose purpose is to present in English texts by artists and scholars about the practice and vision of theatre as a laboratory.
Icarus was the name of a schooner that in 1697 sailed from Civitavecchia with a cargo destined for a Venetian merchant resident in the international trading port of Smyrna. Its mythological name was intended paradoxically as a bringer of good luck to ward off shipwrecks. In its hold, the small vessel also carried a luxurious curtain never used before, a few painted scenes and a number of scripts and musical scores from a theatre erected in Rome by Queen Cristina of Sweden and torn down on the order of Pope Clement X.
Similar to that schooner, Icarus Publishing Enterprise wants to ferry into an international dimension writings of theatre artists and scholars who, despite their value, risk a limited circulation because of the language in which they have been written.
We know by experience that theatre studies are effective only if they succeed in piercing the wrappings of academic common places and inspire those wishing to do theatre. In the books that Icarus Publishing Enterprise will translate and publish, in addition to a knowledge of the past, seeds of future occurrences are hidden. Many think that the theatre has no future. This may be so. But one thing is certain: in the future there will surely be something that we are unable to imagine now, but that will be called theatre.
Odin Teatret (Denmark)
The Grotowski Institute (Poland)
Theatre Arts Researching the Foundations (Malta)
books already published:
Mirella SCHINO
Alchemists of The Stage. Theatre Laboratories in Europe
Icarus Publishing Enterprise (Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw), 2009
ISBN 978-83-61835-08-0; 272 pp.
A book on the motivations and experiences of theatre laboratories in Europe with detailed descriptions about the Studios and the laboratory activity of Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Decroux, Grotowski and Flaszen as well as Odin Teatret.
Price: £17/€20 (from contact@tarf.info)
books to be published in 2009/2010:
Ludwik FLASZEN
Grotowski and Company
Nicola SAVARESE
Eurasian Theatre. Theatre and Performance between East and West
Ingemar LINDH
Stepping Stones
Franco RUFFINI
The Actor: Between Acrobacy and Boxing. An Essay on the Science of the Theatre