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NEWS / IN Exchange film celebrates Exchange’s 15th anniversary

June 9, 2021 by Tom Bailey Leave a Comment

The multicultural and multilingual migrant theatre company Exchange Theatre celebrate their 15th birthday with IN Exchange, a documentary film behind the scenes of their 2018 production of Molière’s Misanthrope at Camden People’s Theatre.

 

A window into the running of a small theatre company pre-pandemic, and the making of a fringe theatre show, IN Exchange is a feature length documentary chronicling the highs and lows of Exchange Theatre Company producing Molière’s Misanthrope at London’s Camden People’s Theatre in 2018. This film is released for the first time ever to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the company and is presented online and on demand on the Living Record digital arts platform.

 

Each year, Exchange Theatre produces its own theatre festival, where the professional company and their amateur community company share the stage of a theatre around a main “flagship” production. Naturally this has not been possible in 2020 and 2021, and the company took on the challenge of reinventing itself and creating work differently. This summer they take their annual season online to celebrate their anniversary – presenting IN Exchange alongside their anti-bias family show The Cat in (Re)boots.

 

Mauritian artistic director David Furlong says “I was Jerwood assistant director on ORFEUS at the Young Vic when pandemic hit and cancelled all my plans both as a freelancer and for my own theatre company. For this special occasion, we decided to share an insight into our process and bring in focus our human values through a unique documentary. With INExchange, you will discover what makes Exchange Theatre a multicultural, multilingual, open-minded, dynamic and young theatre company. You will live at the heart of Exchange Theatre and be completely immersed in our life. In a true cinematic experience directed by film-makers Marie Loury and Léo-Paul Payen you will understand how the company worked through Molière’s play Misanthrope from production to performance. Rooted in our diversity, you will find out how we manage to do theatre for the present and how at the end our productions offer you true sensorial experience.”

 

Exchange Theatre is an international company established in 2006 in London by mixed-race Mauritian actor-director David Furlong, trained at Paris National Theatre and French London-trained actress-producer Fanny Dulin. The organisation started by translating and producing unknown or rare French-speaking plays in English, for the first time on the off West End stages, plays from major French playwrights like Racine, Paul Claudel, Georges Feydeau, Jean-Paul Sartre and Xavier Durringer (London and off Broadway). Exchange Theatre was resident company at the French Institute in London for two years and created 12 bilingual youth shows. The work then evolved towards a unique bilingual experience. Exchange Theatre now translates and presents classics simultaneously in French and English with bilingual artists. In 2017, Furlong was nominated for Best director and assisted at the ROH, In 2018, Misanthrope was nominated at the Offie for best production and video design. Beside the production division, their education department led by Fanny Dulin offers drama classes in French and also teaches French through drama in schools and nurseries across the UK. Their studio space is based in London Bridge at the heart of London. Strong a portfolio of over 30 shows, Exchange Theatre is followed by a multicultural, multilingual and diverse audience.

 

Executive director Fanny Dulin states “At Exchange Theatre, we are convinced that in order to promote the Francophone culture, it has to be reclaimed, readapted and reinvented every day: for 15 years, it is a true community that we have been striving to create around this: Exchange Theatre perpetuates a vision of culture for everyone. Beyond the mere discovery, our productions aim to be accessible to a multilingual third-culture youth and a 21st century diverse audience.”

 

Streamed online, on demand, 15th June – 15th Sept 2021 https://thelivingrecord.com/player/a65f59e9-dce7-443c-b603-b60ec710b7bd 

Author: Tom BaileyTom is a theatre maker and writer based in London, England. He covers news and interviews for Theatre Bubble.
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