Hotel Dramatik
www.hoteldramatik.com
Hotel Dramatik is a meeting point on the internet for
playwrights and theatre lovers. Via its rooms the Hotel, a 3D environment,
offers an inspiring working space for playwrights. They write scenes that take
place in the rooms. After every scene a character is sent forward to another
room and thus picked up by another author. The texts are made available for the
audience. Via the bar and the guestbook the Hotel offers interactive
possibilities for visitors. Playwrights can chat with each other, but the
visiting audience can also engage in a conversation with a writer. Apart from
that, visitors can read the magazine on the counter with news, background info,
reviews and announcements. The library offers a wide range of
plays.
Final Products
The website is being developed like a hotel with an
entrance, a counter, a lobby, etc. There is a chat environment (the bar) and
rooms in which the participants’ texts are stored and can be commented on. There
is a virtual survey of the hotel in 3D. In a digital magazine present-day
repertoire from the Netherlands, Flanders, and foreign countries is being
described. This magazine appears several times a year.
Impact
For initiating Dramatik projects a team of editors is formed
that has at its disposal a large network within the international theatre world.
At this moment there are engagements with the playwrights training of the
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht, the Steunpunt Literair Vertalen of the
University of Utrecht and the faculty of Theatre Science of the University of
Amsterdam. There are talks pending with Theaterwerkplaats Gasthuis and Generale
Oost as well as with the theatre companies NTG in Gent and Het Zuidelijk Toneel
in Eindhoven. There are contacts with Theaternetwerk voor Amateurtoneel.
Cooperation with German playwrights is already on its way and there are contacts
with Canadian playwrights associations as well. The website appears in four
languages.
This project was executed between February 2004 and February
2005.
Contact
Stichting babba, Amsterdam
Alexandra Koch
www.hoteldramatik.com
