XVI Obrador d'estiu

Before the walk, on 14 July, there will be a public presentation of the project in Parc Central del Poblenou (6 p.m.). Dramawalker is a project designed to create geolocalised sound fictions, as a living memory of cities, promoted by the Centro Dramático Nacional in collaboration with the Sala Beckett,[...]

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Taking into consideration the complicated situation being experienced by playwriting in our country, this season the Sala Beckett has awarded various grants for playwriting. We are now presenting the result of four of these grants within the context of the Obrador d’estiu in staged reading format. Introduction Almost thirteen years[...]

Within the context of the Obrador d’estiu, we are offering three examples of new Spanish playwriting. Three texts authored by playwrights that have seen success in Madrid and everywhere else that they have premiered, but that until now could not be seen in Catalonia. Synopsis Simon Critchley says in Notes[...]

Within the context of the Obrador d’estiu, we are offering three examples of new Spanish playwriting. Three texts authored by playwrights that have seen success in Madrid and everywhere else that they have premiered, but that until now could not be seen in Catalonia. Synopsis Campsite on the outskirts of[...]

Within the context of the Obrador d’estiu, we are offering three examples of new Spanish playwriting. Three texts authored by playwrights that have seen success in Madrid and everywhere else that they have premiered, but that until now could not be seen in Catalonia. Synopsis El mal de la piedra[...]

Taking into consideration the complicated situation being experienced by playwriting in our country, this season the Sala Beckett has awarded various grants for playwriting. We are now presenting the result of four of these grants within the context of the Obrador d’estiu in staged reading format. Synopsis Summer 2020. Lola[...]

Every year we invite a group of young writers from different countries to work during l’Obrador d’estiu with an experienced playwright. This year, for the first time this playwright is Ella Hickson, who has proposed to work on the subject Artificial intelligence. From this topic, authors have written short plays[...]

Taking into consideration the complicated situation being experienced by playwriting in our country, this season the Sala Beckett has awarded various grants for playwriting. We are now presenting the result of four of these grants within the context of the Obrador d’estiu in staged reading format. Synopsis Llorenç has asked[...]

In this Obrador d’estiu, the Sala Beckett is presenting the staged reading of three important plays from new Spanish playwriting: Una vida americana by Lucía Carballal, El mal de la piedra by Blanca Doménech and Héroes en diciembre by Eva Mir. We will be taking advantage of this opportunity to[...]

Before the first walk, on 14 July, there will be a public presentation of the project in Parc Central del Poblenou (6 p.m.), with the authors of the stories: Roc Esquius, Sílvia Navarro, Oriol Puig and Mercè Sarrias. There will be also Fernando Sánchez Cabezudo, artistic coordinator of Centro Dramático Nacional;[...]

Taking into consideration the complicated situation being experienced by playwriting in our country, this season the Sala Beckett has awarded various grants for playwriting. We are now presenting the result of four of these grants within the context of the Obrador d’estiu in staged reading format. Synopsis Andrea has fled[...]

Like a Barcelona version of Hyde Park, this year’s Obrador d’estiu includes once more its own Speakers’ Corner, for anyone who wants to make their texts or dramatic scenes public and share them with the other participants. In an informal atmosphere, without any pressure of the “what will people say?” kind,[...]

The participants in this seminar are authors recommended by collaborating institutions. Artificial Intelligence and playwriting: in a world where we are starting to create machines whose intelligence may surpass our own, we are forced to ask questions about our place in the world. How will this new era effect the people[...]