A company of actors from Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Italy explore the core theme, myth and metaphor of the "Journey", based upon their personal and collective experiences amid the recent transitions in their countries and cultures.

"Un progetto di viaggio" di Fabiana Dallavalle
July 25, 2001
(Translated review below)

Young Actors from Five Countries in a Laboratory at the Belvedere on the Natisone River:

A VOYAGE PROJECT
Recounting changes of the last ten years

It is not a theatre performance and it is already much more than a laboratory. Certainly it's a good beginning. The beginning of a journey in which making theatre is one of the possible ways of telling the stories of one's own people or the story of one's life around a bonfire ignited on a summer night. Thus did the young actors of the Voyage Project present themselves Monday at the Belvedere on the Natisone - a "work in progress" begun in Sibiu, Romania and hosted at MittelFest in Cividale for another three evenings (yesterday, Friday and Saturday).

The theme of the work explored by the young actors, each coming from a country which in the last ten years has undergone significant political and cultural changes, is the Journey, perhaps the most central and abiding of all
theatrical and literary motifs. After the introduction by the director, Peter Goldfarb, the young actors, recent graduates from Crakow, Budapest, Iassi, Belgrade and Milan, came down into the audience and began to recount their stories as they might have done were they fellow travelers meeting by chance. Interesting to see how this group of young people, so diverse, open themselves to each other in the course of their tales. It was not always easy to follow the stories narrated in English accented by their different native origins, the use of the language of Albion limiting from an expressive
and dramaturgical point of view and not comfortable for the young actors. To hear them tell their stories in their own tongues with the accompanying emotionality and physicality would have undoubtedly had a different "weight." However, the audience followed to the finish the itinerary forged by the young actors, caught up by the naturalistic scenario and the truth and genuineness of the work.

(NB: In keeping with the development nature of the project, subsequent performances incorporated a substantially greater use of the actors' own languages.)

"Due esplorazioni della psiche" di Mario Brandolin
July 30, 2001
(Translated review below)

Onstage the other day in Cividale the Trieste Contrada and the Voyage Project Laboratory

TWO EXPLORATIONS OF THE PSYCHE
The pained souls of Pino Roveredo and the young wanderers of Peter Goldfarb

Saturday marked the conclusion of the Voyage Project, a laboratory conceived and directed by Peter Goldfarb, with five young actors from Romania, Poland, Hungary, Serbia and Italy. A work in progress on the theme of the Journey as internal experience and as a meeting place and instrument of awareness of oneself. The five young interpreters, were so bonded from the very beginning in their interweaving of stories, legends and myths linked to their countries of origin, as to then, in a kind of natural, psychological training, enter into the private spaces of their own lives, their own dreams and their own present experience, encountering as well those of the others and arriving at the end in a heartwarming and sincere collective embrace: a simple physical gesture but of great symbolic value--an image in which is summed up the entire sense and necessity of an event like MittelFest.