150 young people from 12 young theatre companies from countries including Zambia, Palestine and Brazil will be taking part in Contacting the World, an international theatre exchange project, in which youth theatre companies are randomly twinned in creative partnership.
For example, Die Zwiefachen from the Schaubuhne in Berlin (pictured) has been twinned with Aarohan from Kathmandu in Nepal to create new performance work called ‘A way’, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. All the theatre pieces will be presented at the Unity Theatre and Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts as part of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture Celebrations. Contact Theatre in Manchester is leading up to the July event with a series of free sessions to explore best practice in creating theatre with young people.