The Council of Europe Amicale and Support Action Ukraine are organising a charity concert, “Stolen Childhoods”, in support of Ukraine. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Council of Europe, 120 talented young Ukrainians come together from the four corners of Europe to give a breathtaking performance under the baton of dynamic conductor Oksana Lyniv. …
Improv is Back!
Improv workshops, led by Nikki Lynn Michaelson, are returning to Tagora. These workshops will be held every Tuesday in the rehearsal room at the Council of Europe, from 6pm to 8pm, in accordance with the school calendar. These two-hour sessions will be comprised of theater games and longform improvised scenes in pairs and in groups. …
Play-ing at home
Tagora is about to launch a new series of Sunday morning online play readings. Our first work will be Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance (see below for more details). The play has six characters – four women and two men – but anyone who wants to read a part will have the opportunity to do …
Announcing “The Poorly-Written Play Festival”
Rehearsals are getting under way for a short play, The Poorly-Written Play Festival, by Carolyn Gage. It will be Tagora’s entry in FEATS, the Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies, which takes place in Antwerp in May 2024. We hope also to perform it in or around Strasbourg. In the play, members of an amateur …
Tagora on tour ’24
All right, so it’s not exactly a long tour: only one stop if truth be told. But it is in Antwerp, a great place to visit; it’s for FEATS; and, for the first time, Tagora is proposing both an entry in the main festival and a contribution to the FEATS fringe. The Festival of European …
Whose Right? – Photos now available
See the Archive page for photos of both D’r Handler and Molly Sweeney. Under the patronage of the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the Council of Europe, Tagora presents “Whose Right?”, two plays dealing with the rights of the individual. The plays, both performed in English, will be presented alternately, at the Cube Noir Theatre, …
Myths and fantasies
From 10 to 12 November, the Trois 14 collective presents a series of short scenes on the theme of myths and fantasies. Entitled Fantaisies mythologiques, it is performed for the most part in French; but Tagora is contributing a piece in English, Orpheus, directed by Christelle Colson. More information on the Trois 14 website.
Martin Weston, RIP
Tagora is sorry to hear that our friend and colleague, Martin Weston, passed away on 29 October 2023.
Tagora and FEATS 2024
FEATS 2024 takes place in Antwerp from 17 to 20 May 2024. There is a good chance that Tagora will be invited and, as many of you know, we have been holding readings with the aim of choosing a play to perform. But we need to know that enough people are ready and willing to …
In good voice?
Tagora has received a message from a recording studio looking for native English-speakers to lend their voices to an animated series for children.