Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia finally disembarks at its new building in Barcelona's Poblenou neighbourhood with an annual event that, over the years, has become a key international meeting-point for new drama.
For a week, playwrights, directors, performers and artists in general will take part in wide range of courses, seminars, dramatised readings, talks, works-in-progress and pocket shows. All with the aim of encouraging debate and exchanges of ideas amongst authors from different countries.
This year, the theme of power will provide food for thought and inspiration at many of the workshops and activities scheduled. This “summer workshop” will be attended by such renowned professionals and playwrights as Neil Labute (USA), Martin Crimp and Simon Stephens (UK), Gabriela Izcovich (Argentina), Marie Dilasser (France), Bogdan Georgescu (Romania), Marco Calvani (Italy) and José Sanchis Sinisterra (Spain), as well as such Catalan professionals as Roger Bernat, Pere Riera and Glòria Balañà i Altimira, amongst others.
The journalist Carles Capdevila will open this year’s event open this year with a theatrical lecture about power and the way it operates.
OPENING EVENT
Speech by Journalist Carles Capdevila:
Els poders: viatge d’anada i tornada
11th July at 8.30pm
Ticket price: 10 euros
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS (Registration open)
The More You Talk, the Less You Really Say: WORD/ACTION/IMAGE
with Martin Crimp (England)
Julieta Can Be a Map (Contemporary Playwriting Strategies)
with Alberto Conejero (Spain)
Outline Your Plot
with Pere Riera (Catalonia)
ACTING AND PLAYWRITING LABORATORIES (Registration open)
From Body to Paper, from Paper to Body
with Gabriela Izcovich (Argentina)
Introduction to Dramaturgy for Actors
with José Sanchis Sinisterra (Spain)
STAGE CREATION LABORATORY (Registration open)
Flights from the Real
with Roger Bernat (Catalonia)
SPECIALIZED SEMINAR (Registration closed)
Where Has the Power Gone?
Coordinated by Simon Stephens (England)
With emerging playwrights from all around the world.
READINGS AND MISE-EN-SPACE
Where Has the Power Gone?
(Short plays of emerging playwrights from around the world)
Plays by: Juan Pablo Galimberti (Argentina), Aurore Jacob (France), Sergio Martínez Vila (Spain), Gwendoline Soublin (France), Alfredo Staffolani (Argentina), Jan Vilanova Claudín (Catalonia), Sinna Virtanen (Finland) and Stefan Wipplinger (Germany), among others.
Directed by Jordi Prat i Coll
From 11th to 13th July at 6pm
Staged readings
Free admission
Llengua materna Mameloschn
by Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Translated by Maria Bosom.
Directed by Thomas Sauerteig
11th July at 7pm
Mise-en-space – Fabulamundi I
Ticket price: 3 euros
Paisatge interior brut
by Marie Dilasser
Translated by Carles Batlle.
Directed by Glòria Balañà i Altimira
12th July at 8pm
Mise-en-space – Fabulamundi II
Ticket price: 3 euros
Antisocial
by Bogdan Georgescu
Translated by Xavier Montoliu Pauli.
Directed by Aleix Fauró
13th July at 8pm
Mise-en-space – Fabulamundi III
Ticket price: 3 euros
SHOW – WORKSHOP
PODER – POTERE – POWER
(Three Short Plays about Power)
by Marta Buchaca, Marco Calvani and Neil Labute
AdA Project (Author directs Author)
15th and 16th July at 8pm
Ticket price: 10 euros
Detailed information on each one of these activities can be found at www.salabeckett.cat.
