Seven leading writers from seven countries telling us seven new stories – in seven different languages.

Studio Créole, was an intimate laboratory for stories where we heard writers read in their original language and simultaneously listen to a live translation, channeled through a lone performer. And as we listened, these stories and languages thrillingly fragmented and fused.  Studio Créole, a compelling exploration of meaning and language in our tangled global world.

Who gets to tell which stories? Language today is fluid, mobile, creolised: constantly remade and remodelled by collisions between local dialects and global citizens. And literature in this era becomes a process of high-speed translation and identity swaps.

Studio Créole staged how and why this happens through the collection of seven stories, written for MIF19 and read live by their internationally acclaimed authors – through a spectacular custom-designed audio network. Simultaneously writing, theatre and art, Studio Créole is a living, breathing anthology that exists only in the moment of its happening.

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival and Carriageworks, in association with the Abu Dhabi Festival. Produced by Manchester International Festival.