DREAMS BEFORE DAWN FESTIVAL OF EMERGENT EUROPEAN THEATRE

Dreams Before Dawn is a festival of emergent European theatre curated, organised and run by Bred In The Bone Theatre Laboratory (Brighton) as a co-production with Théâtre de Ménilmontant (Paris). It has had 4 editions since 2015, with a bolder, bigger 5th festival in July 2019. The 2019 edition the festival is a collaboration with Collectif A Vous De Voir in Paris.The festival is a weeklong celebration of Europe's unique common cultural heritage that is theatre. The festival aims to nurture the emergence of new theatre firmly anchored in a common European tradition, from St Petersburg to Lisbon, from Reykjavik to Samothrace and everywhere in between! It is supporting companies and artists who have developed or are developing their own theatre language and craft. It welcomes companies and artists dedicated to the craft of theatre and performance, in a spirit of collaboration between their diverse cultural backgrounds and emerging forms and aesthetics. Every year it hosts up to 30 companies and individual artists from as many different nationalities. During 6 full days it boasts more than 75 events of performances, workshops, talks and passionate conversations.