International Korczak Festival

FOCUS is a cyclical event accompanying the KORCZAK DAY Festival, which aims to popularise knowledge of theatre for children and young people from a selected country.

This year's edition aims to outline the panorama of Swedish theatre for young audiences, taking into account the most interesting phenomena and trends in Swedish drama. Playwrights, playwrights and researchers in theatre for children and young people from Sweden, Dimen Hama Abdulla, Rebecka Brinch, Åsa Lindholm, Anna Lund, Ylva Lorentzon, Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Erik Uddenberg, Stefan Åkesson and Rebecca Örtman, will tell us about their experiences of working with theatre for children and young people at FOCUS .

FOCUS will take the form of a one-day conference during which there will be a panel on the direction of new drama for children and young people, the experiences of playwrights working with institutional and alternative theatres and the challenges arising from the nature of this work. The panel will also include the premiere of an anthology of plays for young people published by the Children's Art Centre in Poznań as part of the New Plays for Children and Young People series with texts by Dimen Hama Abdulla, Mattias Andersson, Athena Farrokhzad, Åsa Lindholm, Robin N Spegel, Talajeh Nasiri and Erik Uddenberg translated by Dominika Górecka.