XXI Obrador d'estiu

This course proposes a space for investigative research, to extract the maximum potential for playfulness, imagination, and risk within the stage material. We will work on textual materials, but also with actions, spaces, music, silences, images and proposals from the participants themselves. The aim of the course is to train[...]

The stage is the place where actions speak, whether those actions are written, played, or implied. I have always worked with both actors and playwrights in the same way because, even if we use different tools (laptops or bodies), we all try to do the same thing: tell a story[...]

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 convention and the personal perspective of each participant.  Theatre as a space for developing the imagination and the limits of language and of performance.[...]

Some playwrights begin writing with almost nothing and discover the play as they write. Some write a detailed outline before they begin. Both ways of working can produce good plays.  In this workshop, we will focus on a variety of approaches to creating an outline before writing a play and how[...]

Making jokes is no simple thing. It requires a sound knowledge of the rules of dramatic writing to push them to the limit, squeeze them, break them... You have to work on the pacing of the lines, because writing a play is, in the end, like composing a score, with[...]

“Never play to the gallery” – D. Bowie Unconditional love gives and does not hold back. Why should we hold anything back when telling a story? Because of rules?  “Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom,[...]

There are materials that we do not invent. They are there: in a recording, in a file, in a forgotten transcription, in an image that went unnoticed, in the mouth of someone who lived through something that we did not experience... This workshop starts with a difficult question to answer:[...]

We have been handed down a history of theatre in which we are called to take a stance, either for or against, and sometimes both. As heirs to a repertoire, several time dimensions coexist within us, and we are made up of different influences, with which, consciously or unconsciously, we[...]