Performing self-written texts
Pack with discount:
Alberto Cortés + Falk Richter = 480 €
Total hours: 16 h
Contact: obrador@salabeckett.cat
This workshop will explore performing self-written autofictional texts. How to write and perform short monologues that start from a very personal and intimate point of view and from personal story telling? What does autofictional writing actually mean? How can you perform personal texts that reach out to an audience and deal with broader social, political, philosophical and human issues?
In this workshop, Falk Richter will lay out his method of developing and directing personal autofictional texts. The group will read and discuss several examples of autofictional dramatic texts by Falk Richter, Edouard Louis, Sarah Kane and the participants of the group. Before and during the workshop, each participant will be encouraged to write their own short monologues according to a certain given pattern and framework and create a series of 5 – 10-minute short performances with themselves as stage performers.
This workshop will be held in English. As a result, participants need to able to communicate, perform and write short texts in this language. Attending the workshop requires some preparation a few weeks prior to its start. To prepare for the workshop, you will be asked to read some excerpts of autofictional literature and to do some writing exercises that will be sent out to you by email.
Within the GREC 2024 Festival de Barcelona
Pack Alberto Cortés + Falk Richter
Falk Richter is a Berlin-based writer and director who has been creating his own plays in several distinguished European theatres and festivals such as Schaubühne Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, Festival d’Avignon, Odéon -Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris, Théâtre National in Brussels, and many other places. Richter has won several awards as a writer and director: in 2018 the German theatre critics voted him “director of the year”. He has been a professor at the Danish National School for Performing Arts in Copenhagen. He has recently premiered the widely acclaimed autofictional play The Silence in Paris and Berlin.
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.