The Royal Court has announced its next International Playwrights Season, opening on 11 February, which includes new plays from Colombia and Latvia and a series of readings and events from Latin America and Eastern Europe.

The season, which marks 15 years of the Royal Court's commitment to finding and developing international work includes full productions of Colombian playwright Pedro Miguel Rozo's new play Our Private Life and Latvian Aleksey Scherbak's play Remembrance Day and is the first time that plays from these countries have been presented at the Royal Court.

A series of rehearsed readings accompanies the season, including work from Mexican playwright Zaria Abreu with Cinema Red and Chilean writer Guillermo Calderon with new plays Villa and Speech.  From Eastern Europe, there will be readings of The Harvest by Pavel Pryazhko from Belarus and Pagans by Anna Yablonskaya from Ukraine.

In addition to this, there will be a programme of brunch seminars - panel discussions exploring the political situation in both regions and the effects of the Royal Court's international work on the British theatre artists who have taken part. There will also be live music in the cafe bar on two late night events in the Royal Court bar from Arriba la Cumbia, the Hackney globetrotter DJ Russ Jones' legendary Latin American music night featuring Colombian beats and live bands.

Since 1996 the Royal Court Theatre has travelled the world, running long-term play development projects and building relationships between playwrights, directors, actors and translators. Working with playwrights and theatre artists in 70 countries and in 30 languages, the work is supported by the Genesis Foundation and the British Council.

All tickets available online at www.royalcourttheatre.com or from the Box Office on 020 7565 5000.

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