From 1997 to 2003 Pan Pan produced the Dublin International Theatre Symposium, a unique and dynamic programme of talks, workshops, demonstration-performances and full productions.

The Symposium gave an Irish audience the chance to engage with a variety of styles, approaches and viewpoints in contemporary theatre from Europe and further afield, allowing space for discussion and engagement with the theatre artists through the workshop and talks programmes and through the demonstration-performances, giving an insight into the varied creation processes. Symposia 1 – 4 included an open plenary session on the final day where the audience and participants were welcome to discuss the week.

2nd Symposium Participants

Andreas Staudinger, Austria
www.andreas-staudinger.at
Talk on his work as a writer

ArtsLab, Ireland
Installation/performance of I Stepped into the Mirror
Talk on the company’s work

Barabbas… the company, Ireland
www.barabbas.ie
2 day workshop with the company
Talk on the company’s work

Grusomhetens Teater, Norway
www.grusomhetensteater.no
Demonstration-performance of The Philosopher’s Stone
Talk on Artaud’s Impossible Theatre
1 day workshop with Director Lars Ønyo on Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty

International Visual Theatre, France
www.ivt.fr
Demonstration-performance of Miracle Par Hasard
Talk on ‘Evolution and the discovery of deaf dance’
2 day workshop with the company on the use of various languages in theatre.

Marburger Theaterwerkstatt, Germany
Performances of Lonely Dogs Feel So Blue
Talk on the performance and the company’s work
2 day workshop with the company

Pan Pan Theatre, Ireland
Performances of Peepshow
1 day workshop with the company

Teatr Ósmego Dnia (Theatre of the Eighth Day), Poland
http://osmego.art.pl
Demonstration performance of Open Improvisation
Talk on ‘Theatre as an expression of rebellion’
Documentary film screening ‘Eight Day Theatre’
Two 3 day workshops with the company

Tom Fjordefalk, Artistic Director of Tyst Teater, Sweden
http://tystteater.riksteatern.se
Talk on ‘Theatre – a definition of language’
5 day workshop
Demonstration-performance by the participants in the workshop

Ultima Vez, Belgium
www.ultimavez.com
Talk on the company’s work