This is an open call for three new plays to be premiered as part of the Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices project, which broadly addresses neglect and violence against women during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Zagreb Youth Theatre, Maribor Theatre Festival, and Belgrade Drama Theatre invite women authors to submit a new, yet unpublished and unproduced play in Croatian, Slovene, or Serbian. Selected authors will receive a fee and the plays will be translated into English, published online, premiered in an omnibus format in Zagreb, Belgrade, and Maribor, and directed by Selma Spahić.

The drama script can only be submitted by women authors with a residence address in the EU member states and countries included in the Creative Europe Programme (Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Georgia, Moldavia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Armenia, and Kosovo).

The deadline for submissions is 18 January 2023.
For further information see project website: https://shadowpandemic.eu/en/public-call/