The Cockpit Presents: Voilà! Europe, a non Brexit-fearing festival with a central mission to bust the barriers of language and showcase plays from around Europe and the UK to London’s multi-national audiences. Presenting 30 different pieces of work, from new writing by emerging artists to classics revisited by well-loved companies, Voilà! Europe celebrates diversity in performing arts, multiple languages, and fearless creatives. Voilà! Europe is the evolution of a francophone festival produced annually by the Cockpit Theatre since 2013. This year’s festival will celebrate multiple languages spoken on the European continent and is expanding beyond the Cockpit Theatre to include programmes at Etcetera Theatre and Applecart Arts. Presenting work and providing additional platforms for exchange in the arts, Voilà! Europe ‘s programming is a kaleidoscope of cutting edge and highly original work designed by and delivered by the people taking part – with plenty of English language works for the monoglots among us.
The festival presents a huge diversity of art forms from poetry nights to political theatre, comedy to physical theatre, circus and urban culture to puppeteering, dance to improv and musicals to clown; subjects range across themes of belonging, displacement, culture, money, power, identity and more.
Voilà! Europe is part of The Cockpit: Theatre Of Ideas & Disruptive Panache’s central misson: to produce collaborative programmes with commissions and events designed to nurture debate and encourage risky new work. It provides a vital platform for work by performers from across Europe, which encourages audiences to flex their viewing habits and to discover something different, while making very clear points about Brexit.
Dave Wybrow, Artistic Director of the Cockpit says; “Voilà! Europe is part of our ongoing mission to put together a venue, a tribe and new ways of networking and creating work. It’s about embracing our multifaceted culture in the face of retrogressive government policy, joining low tech to hi tech, low culture to high culture and low budgets to high levels of audience reach and social impact.”
Voilà! Europe takes place in London November 8th-18th and the full line-up can be found here.
