XII Obrador d'estiu

The participants in this seminar are authors recommended by collaborating institutions. Edward Bond had a car-crash on a motorway in the UK in the sixties. Bond, one of the most important playwrights in Britain since the Second World War, recounts that while he was trying to control his car and[...]

Gabriel Calderón, actor, playwright and director, is one of Uruguay’s most international stage creators. One should never begin a text with a NO. Especially if it is an invitation, or a call to attend. No. But it is very tempting to begin how one should NOT begin. To enter through[...]

Marco Calvani made an impact ten years ago with Le Mani Forti and last year he took part in the project AdA (Author Directs Author). At any historical moment –and this one in particular– in which diversity does not communicate something idealistic and virtuous any more, but instead something cynical[...]

Ramon Fontserè, actor and director of Els Joglars and one of the protagonists of the series Nit i dia, is one of this country’s most acclaimed actors. The hours of this course will be used to work, in a simple and I hope fun way, three topics and objectives: the[...]

Sasha Marianna Salzmann, author of Llengua Materna Mameloschn, is one of the most interesting playwrights on the German theatre scene. What do I want to write, myself? What does this self wants and who is this self really in relation with the whole of society? In this exchange of impressions[...]

Yeşim Özsoy, author of Històries d’Istanbul, which will be premiered at this year’s Grec Festival, is the most outstanding Turkish playwright of the moment. Our subconscious is an important part of our writing process. In this workshop we will be making a journey from our unconscious to the sheet of[...]

Jean-Pierre Ryngaert, one of the great theorists of contemporary French theatre, proposes a course where the word and dialogue form the central core. Ordinary conversation is not the same as theatrical dialogue, which in the last few decades has undergone all the transformations imaginable, when it has not disappeared completely.[...]

Lola Blasco was winner of the Ministry of Culture’s National Prize for Dramatic Literature for Siglo mío, bestia mía. In times of disenchantment, the search for magic, for “what could be”, is one of the few threads that as creators we can latch on to. An era of religious fanaticism,[...]

Anthony Nielson, one of the most experimental and innovative playwrights in today’s theatre scene in the UK, will share his creative process based on working with actors. In the UK, the standard practice is for playwrights to write, over several months, in isolation and then for that finished play to[...]

Victoria Szpunberg, author of La màquina de parlar, Boys don’t Cry and L’onzena plaga, will offer the basic tools for starting to write plays. A tour through the basic concepts of dramatic writing accompanied by practical writing exercises, with special emphasis on the dialogue between the rules proposed by dramatic[...]