ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

Peca Stefan @ Attic Arts

Playwright Peca Stefan takes up the ICR London Attic Arts residency to develop a play that explores three stories of failure in a context where social and financial crisis meets human relationships and love.

Peca Stefan is a winner of the dramAcum prize (the Romanian award for best new playwright) in 2002. He also won the Best Play-Relationship Drama Awards at the London Fringe Report Awards for The Sunshine Play in 2006. His education includes New York University and he was one of the Royal Court International Playwriting Residents in 2005.

His plays have been translated into English (The Sunshine Play, Bucharest Calling, Colors, Romania 21, The Complete Truth About the Life and Death of Kurt Cobain, New York [Fuckin' City], I HATE HELEN), French (U.F.), German (Romania 21, Nils' fucked-up Day, Jazz), Turkish (Romania 21), and Italian (The Sunshine Play). His work has been presented in New York (The Lark Theatre, New York University), London (as part of the Royal Court International Residency), Dublin (Dublin Fringe Festival), Berlin (Schaubuehne Theatre), Wiesbaden (New Plays From Europe Biennale), Graz and Leeds (JANUS project), France (Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Avignon), Sankt Petersburg (RAINBOW Festival), Rome (Teatro Valle) and in many national festivals in Romania.

When: 1 November - 10 December 2009;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute London