Programme

Join us on Tuesday 06 May 2025 at 8pm at Ratelach, where you can curl up in our armchairs, enjoy a drink of your choice and listen to texts in progress by Benjamin George Coles, Rafael David Kohn and Patrick Vedie..

Inspired by the Parisian Work In Progress evenings, the principle of Word in Progress (WIP) is simple and original: to create a genuine exchange between the audience and the writer, while giving a glimpse of the work in progress. For ten minutes, the guest authors read an unpublished text that is still being written. After that, it's up to the audience to give their feedback and ask the author questions about her work in progress, with the help of an ‘author's tormentor’, this time Anne-Marie Reuter, to guide the debate.

Stories by Benjamin George Coles. have been published in The London Magazine, Hobart, Every Day Fiction and Erotic Review, as well as in Italian translation in Turchese, while essays of his have appeared in The Philosopher, Film International and Bright Lights Film Journal. He won the 2022 Crème Fraîche screenwriting competition at the Luxembourg City Film Festival, with his winning entry turned into the 2023 short film A Place to Be. He also writes articles for Land, and is a member of the artist collective Antropical, leading their cultural-artistic guidance team and sometimes writing their blog.

Patrick Védie, born in 1979, has been writing short stories since he learned how to, then moved on to directing at the age of 16. He produced a few short films, most of which he also authored or co-authored. An avid reader of any genre and in the half a dozen languages he knows, he uses his own writing to explore the ways in which reality and fiction mingle, and in sometimes subtle, sometimes not so subtle ways adds a dash of autobiography.

Rafael Kohn started his theatre career as a stagehand at the Théâtre du Centaure. After his studies at the University of Arts in Berlin, he made his debut as a playwright in 2009 with 'bushmeat' at Bühnen der Stadt Gera. In 2010 he directed his play Flaschenbrand in Luxembourg, Lupenrein was produced in 2011 by Theater 89 in Berlin. Waffensalon was selected for the ETC book of plays: best 119 contemporary European plays 2012.

As a director he pioneered English speaking performances in Luxembourg with his in situ production of Lucy Kirkwood’s 'it felt empty at first when the heart went, but it is alright now' for Maskénada.

As a playwright, he writes in German, French, Luxembourgish and English. So far over 20 of his plays have been performed in Germany, Luxembourg, Romania and Togo. His work includes various published short stories, essays, articles, screenplays and radio plays in Germany, Luxembourg and Togo. In 2017 he published his first novel Che Guevara war ein Mörder. In 2018/19 he was a writer in residency at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg. In 2021 he was resident in the prestigious Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.

As a director he further has worked at the Teatrul National Radu Stanca Sibiu in Romania, the National Theater Weimar in Germany, Theater an der Schaan in Liechtenstein, Sfumato theatre in Bulgaria and many stages in Luxembourg.