See also
16.00 – Cross Channel Theatre: Live on Stage – staged readings
About the speakers
Clare Finburgh Delijani
Clare Finburgh Delijani is a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her latest book, A New History of Theatre in France (2024), is winner of the Theatre and Performance Research Association Edited Collection Prize. She has written many books and articles on theatre and other forms of performance from the French-speaking world and the UK. She is currently holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, during which she is writing about theatre that addresses France’s colonial past, and postcolonial present.
Out now: A New History of Theatre in France
Estelle Savasta
Estelle Savasta is Associated Artist to the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry CDN du Val-de-Marne, the Centre Dramatique National de Normandie-Rouen and the Théâtre + Cinéma Scène nationale Grand Narbonne. She started as assistant to Gabriel Garran at the Théâtre international de langue française in Paris, then to Wajdi Mouawad at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous à Montréal. In 2005, she founded the Hippolyte a mal au cœur company and staged an adaptation in French and French Sign Language of Ágota Kristóf’s The Notebook. In 2007, she wrote Seule dans ma peau d’âne (éditions Lansman), which was nominated for a Molière Award. In 2011, she wrote Traversée, published at l’École des loisirs, which is translated in English in 2016 with the support of the SACD and the French Institute in London. It is created for the Bush Theatre in London in 2019. She also wrote Le Préambule des étourdis in 2014 and staged numerous projects for young audiences.
Hortense Archambault
Hortense Archambault is the director of the MC93 in Bobigny, a public multicultural venue on the outskirts of Paris with an international outlook and part of the ambitious maison de la culture network founded by the French state in 1961. She leads the MC93 project to take theatre to the people of Seine-Saint-Denis and beyond, focusing on the issue of the commons, and shared cultural resources. She was the co-director of the Festival d’Avignon, along with Vincent Baudriller, from 2003 to 2013.
Chris Campbell
Chris was Literary Manager of the Royal Court Theatre for ten years and, before that, for six years, he was Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre after a successful career as an actor which saw him appear at the National Theatre, The Royal Court and The Traverse, among many others, as well as appearing alongside Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady. He has translated plays by, among others, Philippe Minyana, David Lescot, Rémi de Vos, Adeline Picault, Magali Mougel, Samuel Gallet, Launcelot Hamelin, Frédéric Blanchette, Catherine-Anne Toupin and Fabrice Roger-Lacan for The National, The Gate, The Almeida, The Donmar, The Traverse and The Young Vic among others. In 2017, Oberon Books published a collection of his contemporary French translations. Recent productions include Right Now (Traverse/Bush/Ustinov), Suzy Storck and Mephisto [A Rhapsody] (The Gate).
