Human beings in a theatre made for them: the child�s voice in contemporary theatre for young audiences

This article explores the challenges of including the child�s voice in an artform dedicated to children, Theatre for Young Audiences. In 2020, The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People, ASSITEJ, launched a manifesto to bring the voices of children and artists to every country in the world. However, the experience of children of this theatre made for them is often that their rights are elided with or subordinated to those of adults. A model for addressing this and some examples of practice suggest possibilities for change. This article examines the capacity and capability required to realise such possibilities within a precarious industry. Committing to hearing children makes demands on those making theatre and those making policy alike.

Theatre for Young Audiences – 3 Texts Mihai Ignat – Selma Dragoş – Andrei Ursu

This article surprises some thoughts and ideas about the volume Teatru pentru publicul tânăr – 3 texte (Theatre for Young Audiences – 3 Texts), published by Editura Timpul, in October 2018. This book contains texts signed by three young playwrights, Mihai Ignat, Selma Dragoş and Andrei Ursu, who wrote plays for youths “of all ages”, as Oltiţa Cîntec warns us in the Preface. The plays are part of a residence program, a partnership between three institutions in Iaşi, and are extremely different as genre and yet contemporary. My review follows exactly these aspects and a personal interpretation of the messages, situations and characters.