Total hours: 12h (4 sesions)
Contact: obrador@salabeckett.cat
Hello. My name is Bonn Park and I occasionally write plays. I am invited to teach you how to write plays. This is a great honor and also a burden since the first thing which comes to my mind is that I don’t know how to teach to write plays. But if I had to describe my technique, I would say that a big part of it is not to tell (not even to me), never to speak out what I am doing and how. It is like a magic trick: all magic is gone as soon as you explain how it works. So my first lesson would be: never tell anyone about your magic. Although it sounds now like a workshop is a great foolishness to do after this first lesson, I still believe there are a lot of things we can talk about, we can read and watch. I consider theatre as a place of lies, a place where everything what happens is not real. Lights go off and people on the stage do things that are fictional, like falling in love to the same person every night and killing him too, or be surprised about informations in letters (the same letter every night), even though this person knows this information very well, because he or she has rehearsed this scene in which he or she receives a letter with this information. POLITICAL and REALISTIC are terms often used in reference to the theatre and I don’t know what they mean by that. Theatre is not realistic, it is not even real, politics are real and real is real. I like the potential of theatre because it is lies and magic. Are you interested in lies and magic? Then attend this workshop and let’s do some witchery.
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Born in Berlin in 1987 and raised in Berlin, Korea and Paris, Bonn Park studied Slavic languages and literature at Humboldt University Berlin from 2008 on.
His first works as a director and author were for the Berlin Volksbühne. He has been guest director at the Zurich Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) and guest student of Werner Schroeter, Heiko Kalmbach and Frank Castorf. In 2011 he took up a course in dramatic writing at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
He received the Heidelberg Stückemarkt’s 2011 Innovation Prize for Die Leiden des Jungen Super Mario in 2D. His play Traurigkeit & Melancholie oder der aller aller einsamste George aller aller Zeiten was awarded the Else Lasker-Schüler Playwright Prize 2014 and nominated for the German Youth Theatre Prize 2016. The audio play of the same name was produced in 2015 by Deutschlandradio Kultur. Subsequently, he received commissions from the Berlin Parkaue theatre/Theater Chemnitz and the Frankfurt Regiestudio. In 2016 he won the Essen Autorentage youth jury prize for Wir trauern um Bonn Park. Das Knurren der Milchstraße was awarded the 1st prize at the Berlin Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in 2017, including a commission from the Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe. The play premiered at Theater Bielefeld in September 2017, directed by Bonn Park himself.
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