COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
Advanced theatre writing workshop
Tutor: Simon Stephens (England)
Aimed at emerging young playwrights from around the world.
Specialised playwriting course
Teacher: Theresia Walser (Germany)
How to write a play based on work with the characters.
Specialised playwriting course
Teacher: Joseph Danan (France)
What place does playwriting occupy when the text is relegated to second place?
Workshop for professional actors
Teacher: Andrés Lima (Spain)
The director of the Animalario theatre company presents an acting course.
Workshop for actors, directors and playwrights
Teacher: Alfredo Sanzol (Spain)
The writer and director of Delicades works on ways of giving voice to that which lives in silence and oblivion.
Specialised playwriting course
Teacher: Sergi Belbel (Catalonia)
A reflection on the endings of plays.
Specialised playwriting course
Teachers: Marc Hervàs (Catalonia) and Jorge Picó (Valencia)
An introductory course on playwriting for children.
Sponsored by Sa Xerxa and Fundació Xarxa.
Introductory course on playwriting
Teacher: Pere Riera (Catalonia)
A course on the theoretical foundations of playwriting.
DRAMATISED READINGS
Monday, July 11
Tot el món, by Theresia Walser
Saturday, July 16
Roaming món, by Joseph Danan (translation by Carles Batlle)
Tuesday, July 12 - Friday, July 15, at 6.30 pm
Noves obres per a una època de terror [New works for a period of terror]
New short pieces by Marta Buchaca (Catalonia), Ana Cândida de Carvalho Carneiro (Brazil/Italy), Ebru Nihan Celkan (Turkey), Charalampos Giannou (Cyprus), Fouad Yammine (Lebanon), Julia Holewi?ska (Poland), Wolfram Lotz (Germany), Magali Mougel (France), André Murraças (Portugal), José Padilla (Spain), Nick Payne (England), Santiago Sanguinetti (Uruguay) and Saara Turunen (Finland).
Director: Thomas Sauerteig
With actors from the Obrador d’Estiu resident company.
Organised by Sala Beckett/Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia and Grec 2011 Festival de Barcelona.
In cooperation with Barcelona Provincial Council Theatre Institute and Teatre Lliure.
With support from Institute of Catalan Letters and Ministry of Education and Culture, Government of the Balearic Islands.
Partners:
Advanced theatre writing workshop: National Directorate for Culture, Uruguay; Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus; Institut Français de Barcelona; Goethe-Institut de Barcelona; SACD / Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, Association Beaumarchais (France); Artistas Unidos, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal); Spanish Embassy in Beirut, SHAMS / The Cultural Cooperative Association for Youth in Theatre and Cinema (Lebanon); TINFO / Theatre Info Finland, Nordic Drama Corner (Finland); Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Teatralny (Poland); Royal Court Theatre (England);
Theatertreffen (Germany); Galata Perform (Turkey).
Course by Theresia Walser: Goethe-Institut de Barcelona.
Course by Joseph Danan: Institut Français de Barcelona and SACD / Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques.
Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia receives support from the Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries of the Ministry of Culture, Government of Catalonia, the National Institute for the Performing
