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.
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An agreement has been reached between Icarus Publishing Enterprise and the publishing houses ARTEZBLAI in Bilbao (Spain) (artez@artezblai.com) and É REALIZAÇOIS (edsonfilho@erealizacoes.com.br) in São Paulo (Brazil) which, from 2011, will publish all Icarus books in Spanish and Portuguese. Further information can be obtained directly from Artezblai and É Realizações.
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.
Price: €20/£17 (from contact@tarf.info)
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.
Nicola SAVARESE
Eurasian Theatre. Theatre and Performance between East and West
Icarus Publishing Enterprise (Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw), 2010
ISBN 978-83-61835-24-0 (hardback); 640 pp.
Price: €27/£24 (from contact@tarf.info)
A long history of travelling actors moving between East and West has slowly taken shape, and lies at the foundation of our contemporary, professional performative arts. This updated and revised edition of Drama and Performance Between East and West (first published in 1992), traces this history from classical antiquity to the present. The book constitutes the first complete in-depth historiographic inquiry into the subject.
Ludwik FLASZEN
Grotowski and Company
Icarus Publishing Enterprise (Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw), 2010
ISBN 978-83-61835-12-7; 323 pp.
Price: €22/£20 (from contact@tarf.info)
This collection by Ludwik Flaszen gathers over thirty key texts, nearly all of which have never been published in English. It provides insight into the concepts behind the practice of one of the 20th century theatre’s leading lights, and introduces the cultural, literary and historical dimensions of his work.
Ingemar LINDH
Stepping Stones
Icarus Publishing Enterprise (Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw), 2010
ISBN 978-83-61835-44-8; 232 pp.
Price: €17/£14 (from contact@tarf.info)
A book by a practitioner. It documents the work of a laboratory-based practice that investigated the principles of collective improvisation as a performance practice. Ingemar Lindh’s research, which announces a resistance to choreography, fixed scores, and directorial montage, has significant implications for the practice and theory of performance in a post-dramatic age.
books to be published in 2011:
Franco RUFFINI
The Actor: Between Acrobacy and Boxing. An Essay on the Science of the Theatre