Icarus Publishing Enterprise
Considering that 50% of all books in translation worldwide
are from English while only 6% are
translated into English, Odin
Teatret (Denmark), The Grotowski
Institute (Poland) and Theatre Arts Researching
the Foundations (Malta) have created Icarus Publishing
Enterprise whose purpose is to present in English texts by artists
and scholars about the practice and vision of theatre as a
laboratory.
Icarus was the name of a schooner that in 1697 sailed
from Civitavecchia with a cargo destined for a Venetian
merchant resident in the international
trading port of Smyrna. Its mythological name was
intended paradoxically as a bringer of good luck to ward off
shipwrecks. In its hold, the small vessel also carried a luxurious
curtain never used before, a few painted scenes and a number of
scripts and musical scores from a theatre erected
in Rome by Queen Cristina of Sweden and torn
down on the order of Pope Clement X.
Similar to that schooner, Icarus Publishing Enterprise wants to
ferry into an international dimension writings of theatre artists
and scholars who, despite their value, risk a limited circulation
because of the language in which they have been written.
We know by experience that theatre studies are effective only if
they succeed in piercing the wrappings of academic commonplaces and
inspire those wishing to do theatre. In the books that Icarus
Publishing Enterprise will translate and publish, in addition to a
knowledge of the past, seeds of future occurrences are hidden. Many
think that the theatre has no future. This may be so. But one thing
is certain: in the future there will surely be something that we
are unable to imagine now, but that will be called theatre.
Odin Teatret
(Denmark)
The Grotowski Institute (Poland)
Theatre Arts
Researching the Foundations (Malta)
Next Title:
Franco Ruffini: 'Theatre and Boxing: The Actor
Who Flies'
Current Titles:
Icarus
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Next Title:
Franco Ruffini: 'Theatre and Boxing: The Actor
Who Flies'
