The Materials
Total hours: 34h
Contact: obrador@salabeckett.cat
The director that this season moved the Teatre Lliure audience with El temps que estiguem junts is coming to the Beckett to teach a performing arts research workshop.
What do we do when we produce theatre? What are we engaging ourselves in? What training would be pertinent for stage work? What are our materials?
The aim of this workshop will be to focus each day on a different question related to the performing arts field (time, space, presence, senses, the word) and gradually discover the possible repercussions depending on whether our attention remains focused on one material or another.
Thinking of the performance as a putting into context rather than an exhibition of skills, we will deal with seeing how the body and the word are affected by the movement of our attention from one material to another. Trying to suspend judgement, with a curiosity that does not aim to understand, but to discover something that it does not know, we will let ourselves be carried away by the pure desire to know once more what being on the stage means.
Suggested reading:
BRESSON, Robert: Notas sobre el cinematógrafo (Ed. Ardora)
CHILLIDA, Eduardo: Escritos (Ed. La Fábrica)
Within the GREC 2018 Festival of Barcelona.
Pablo Messiez is an actor, playwright and theatre director. Born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, since 2009 he has lived and worked in Madrid. Notable among his plays are Los ojos, Las canciones, Todo el tiempo del mundo and La voluntad de creer.
Apart from these plays, he has directed texts by Samuel Beckett, Federico García Lorca and Jean Genet, among others. In 2015 he received the Premio Max for directing La piedra oscura by Alberto Conejero for the Centro Dramático Nacional. In 2018 he was finalist of the Premios Valle-Inclán for his mise-en-scène for the play by Santiago Loza He nacido para verte sonreír for the Teatro de la Abadía. And this year, his production of La voluntad de creer has won the Premio Max and Premio Godot for the best play of the year, along with the Premio Godot for the best text. Moreover, he has been nominated for the best direction by the Asociación de Directores de Escena de España.
In December 2023 he premiered his play Los gestos, in coproduction with the Centro Dramático Nacional and Teatro Kamikaze.
Along with his work as a playwright and stage director, he has developed his teaching activity in several institutions such as the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the Sala Beckett in Barcelona, the Universidad Menéndez Pelayo in Santander and the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas of the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
He has published Asymmetrical-Motion; Notas sobre pedagogía y movimiento ―coauthored with Lucas Condró―, Las palabras de las obras (compilation of some of his plays), El tiempo que estemos juntos, Las canciones, El texto infinito y La voluntad de creer, all released by Continta Me Tienes. This year the Centro Dramático Nacional will publish Los gestos.
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.