This year, La Nau Ivanow hosts three activities devoted to contemporary dramaturgy that combine education, debate and readings. The Obrador d'Estiu summer workshop at the Sala Beckett, the Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe project and the PIIGS Festival are three separate but interrelated initiatives that focus on one single theme: how to tell stories in today's world.
The Grec Festival of Barcelona again hosts a new edition of the Obrador d’Estiu de la Sala Beckett, an international meeting for contemporary dramaturgy, with workshops, seminars, debates and dramatised readings. This year, moreover, the activities include the project Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe, a new initiative aimed at making contemporary European drama better known and promoting translation and performance of such works. Fabulamundi is a European project that enables Barcelona audiences to attend dramatised readings of four contemporary works that have already been presented in Austria, Romania, Italy and France. The respective playwrights are expected to attend the readings of their works.
You will find further information on the Obrador d’Estiu and Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe on both the Grec Festival of Barcelona and the Fabulamundi project websites.
www.salabeckett.cat/obrador-destiu
www.bcn.cat/grec
www.fabulamundieurope.eu
IX OBRADOR D’ESTIU DE LA SALA BECKETT PROGRAMME
July 5-12
Nau Ivanow
SEMINAR (registration is now closed)
What will happen next?
Coordinated by Simon Stephens (England). With emerging playwrights from around the world .
Playwriting courses (registration now open)
The Bases of Dramatic Writing
with Pere Riera (Catalonia)
Aristotle Forever
with Sergi Belbel (Catalonia)
The Theatre as Interruption
with Ewald Palmetshofer (Austria; within the framework of the Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe project)
From Epic to Drama
with David Lescot (France; within the framework of the Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe project)
Playwriting and acting workshop (registration open)
I want you ~ I need you: examining the writer/actor relationship through practical application and performance
with Neil LaBute (USA)
Dramatized readings open to the public
What will happen next?
Short works by emerging authors from around the world. Texts by: Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs (Catalonia), Brad Birch (England), Xavier Carrar (France), Michel Decar (Germany), Lola Fernández (Spain), Luciana Lagisquet (Uruguay), Hugo Mejías (Chile), Pauline Peyrade (France) and Ignacio Sánchez Mestre (Argentina).
Director: Judith Pujol
By the Obrador d’Estiu actors’ company.
Dates: July 7-9, at 6 pm
Meeting-debate: Obrador d’Estiu - PIIGS
Crisis? What Crisis?
A meeting and debate for playwrights on the question of writing for the stage in a context of crisis. The meeting, which forms part of the activities programmed at the PIIGS Festival, devoted to theatre writing about the crisis in the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), is organized by the Obrador, the PIIGS Festival and La Nau Ivanow. The guests include writers from the aforementioned nations and other countries in Europe and Latin America (further information in the PIIGS Festival programme).
FABULAMUNDI. PLAYWRITING EUROPE
July 10 and 11
Nau Ivanow
Teaming up with Fabulamundi, the Grec and the Obrador d’Estiu de la Sala Beckett have organised dramatized readings of four works recently performed for the first time in Austria, Romania, Italy and France, translated and presented with the support of this European contemporary dramaturgy project.
Hamlet és mort. No hi ha força de gravetat, by Ewald Palmetshofer (Austria)
Translation by Katia Pago
Director: Ferran Dordal i Lalueza
Thursday, July 10, at 6 pm
La síndrome Genovese, by Alina Nelega (Romania)
Translation by Xavier Montoliu
Director: Jordi Prat i Coll
Thursday, July 10, at 8 pm
Un home en fallida, by David Lescot (France)
Translation by Carles Batlle
Director: Carles Fernández Giua
Friday, July 11, at 6 pm
Llum o de les potencialitats lluminoses del cos humà, by Magdalena Barile (Italy)
Translation by Marina Espasa
Director: Thomas Sauerteig
Friday, July 11, at 8 pm
