Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Dresden State Theatre and Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz will join together for the first time in this unique collaboration to develop a multi authored, multi lingual play, which will be inspired by the promotion of intercultural debate. Steve Waters, Tena Stivicic, Lutz Huebner and Malgortzta Sikorska-Miszczuk are four of the leading contemporary European playwrights and will join forces to write one play, which will tour to the United Kingdom, Croatia, Germany and Poland. The premise will be the questions, which surround a 'contemporary European identity'. Do you have to agree to Europe to be in it? If Europe had a temple what would it be built out of, are just some of the questions the writers will pose to audiences and community groups in each city. The writers will travel to each others' country exploring and exchanging creative development and writing traditions before writing a play together. The play will be produced in all cities and the creative team will be made up of artists from each country. A community engagement programme will run alongside this process. Education officers in each country will work with a different group, for example elderly citizens in Poland and Muslim women in the United Kingdom. Each group will generate their own creative responses to the ideas that emerge through their own cultural and artistic exchange. These will be performed in their respective countries at the time of the production. A virtual discussion will be opened from the beginning to enable any citizen of Europe or indeed the world to follow the story as it develops via blogs or engage in the debate via twitter and facebook.