After Interiors, Vanishing Point’s Artistic Director Matthew Lenton was asked to lead the 2010 École des Maîtres, working with actors from France, Belgium, Portugal and Italy. The project which is now in its nineteenth year, is led by Franco Quadri. The school offers recent graduates from European theatre schools and academies the opportunity to work with international theatre directors over a period of six weeks in the cities of Udine and Naples. Presentations of a work-in-progress took place in Naples, Brussels and Lisbon. A further presentation will take place in Reims in December 2010. Alice in Wonderland, the pornography industry and the universe of the internet were some of the themes explored during the Ecole des Maitres. Wonderland is the place of our dreams and nightmares, a world of fantasy where our hearts beats faster. But having passed into this world, is it possible to get back? Once we have opened the door can we ever retreat once again to the ordinariness of our lives? How ordinary were our lives in the first place?
There are many points of contact between Interiors and Wonderland, connected as they are by themes of voyeurism. But they are also very different. Whereas Interiors is fragile and elegiac, Wonderland is more dramatic, provocative and surreal. The show will evolve over the next year and will premiere in 2012.