XIII Obrador d'estiu

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.[...]

Sergio Blanco is one of Uruguay’s most interesting and international playwrights today, the author of Tebasland and La ira de Narciso, which could be seen at the Temporada Alta festival, is coming to Barcelona to teach a playwriting course. The focus of study for this seminar is the subject of[...]

Pau Miró, one of the best-consolidated Catalan playwrights, author of Un tret al cap, Victòria and Plou a Barcelona, is returning once more to the Beckett to teach an advanced course in playwriting, revolving around character construction. Taking into account that, to construct a character, first of all we have[...]

The author of George Kaplan, which was a complete sell-out a few seasons back, is returning to the Sala Beckett to offer a course on character creation. How does one create a portrait of an individual, of a character, from a polyphony? How does one create a fragmentary or staggered[...]

Anna Wakulik, one of the most interesting Polish playwrights of the moment, is coming to Barcelona to teach a course and present a play of hers that premiered to great success at the Royal Court Theatre in London. “It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to[...]

The director that dazzled the Teatre Lliure last October with Living with the Lights On returns to Barcelona to teach a workshop for professional performers. Theatre texts are instructions, a series of lines, designed to activate the spectator. Using mainly modern but also some classical texts, this workshop will look[...]

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?[...]

One of the most important actors on the Catalan stage is coming to the Sala Beckett to teach an acting course. In this workshop we will create a workspace, a meeting place, where the genuine person that we are can be the true support of the actress or actor that[...]

The participants in this seminar are authors recommended by collaborating institutions. We live in perhaps the safest time that any human being has ever lived in. We live in a time where death by warfare, for most people, in nearly every part of the world, is unlikely. We live in[...]