Imagination before writing
Total hours: 20h
Contact: obrador@salabeckett.cat
To participate in this course, in addition to filling in the usual form, a motivation letter will be needed. The motivation letter must be sent to Obrador’s email.
Of late, I have liked doing a couple of workshops per year. I always aim, like in a miniature model, for us to pass through places similar to those that I normally cross in creative processes. For example, I always write late, very close to the opening performance, stretching the prior research phases to the maximum. Over these five days we will be immersed in an express creation process, prioritising this strange concept of “stage composition”, which nobody really knows what it is.
When these hours and these few days together seem to us more like weeks, at that point, with luck, we will write something.
Celso Giménez
Within the GREC Festival of Barcelona 2023.
Stage creator and writer. In the year 2005 he started out with the La Tristura company on work involving research and stage creation. His plays include Future Lovers, CINE and Renacimiento. He works seeking the limits between documentary and fiction, between presentation and representation. With the certainty that intimacy and poetry are, essentially, political concepts.
His plays have been presented in various international contexts such as the Canal de Madrid Theatres, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Cena Contemporânea in Brasilia, the Festival Grec in Barcelona, the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen, Auawirleben in Berna, Kampnagel in Hamburg or the Festival de Otoño organised by the Comunidad de Madrid.
He collaborates as playwright and scriptwriter on stage and audiovisual projects by creators such as La Veronal, Mucha Muchacha, El Conde de Torrefiel and Gabriel Azorín, among others.
Admission to the course will be based on order of arrival and CV assessment, which should be sent (with photograph included), filling in the form on the right.
Places on courses are limited. Places will be reserved once the course amount has been paid. Payment must be made within one week of receiving the corresponding acceptance email.
The dates indicated for each course or seminar may be subject to variations in exceptional circumstances. These will be notified when applicable.
For the course to take place, a minimum number of students must be registered. If this number is not reached, the course will be cancelled and the student will have the option of registering for a different course (providing that there are places available) or alternatively will receive a refund of the amount paid (100%). If a student withdraws, a refund of 75% of the registration fee will be applicable, providing that written notice is given at least 10 days before the start of the course.