XIX Obrador d'estiu

The participants in this seminar are authors recommended by collaborating institutions. "Memory believes before knowing remembers." William Faulkner, Light in August   Where are we, now, in time? We're in the present. The little seconds. Those little seconds that hold a little thought and then gone. Where do they go?[...]

A staged reading is a simple formula which, with the interpreters before us reading the text of the work, it gives viewers the creative freedom to imagine the scenery that they like the most. 8/07: Oficina de Vida Independent de Núria Vizcarro 9/07: No t’enamoris de mi de Cesc Colomina[...]

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Synopsis The Independent Living Office advises and accompanies people with functional diversity in their development as autonomous and independent agents in their personal, social, educational and working life alike. Amanda enters the Office in search of information, because her mother has suffered an accident and has to live the rest[...]

Synopsis Charlie, after leaving work, arrives home and prepares dinner while telling Dani how the day has gone: work, the neighbourhood dinner, the unexpected sex, the worried friends, the unanswered calls... Glass of wine in hand, they talk every evening in this increasingly undefined space, while we discover the reason[...]

Every year we invite a group of young writers from different countries to work during l’Obrador d’estiu with an experienced playwright. This year, this playwright is Simon Longman, who has proposed to work on the subject Memory, Nostalgia and Theatre. Out of this topic, authors have written short plays that,[...]

Synopsis Cristina and Dani have been together for more than 20 years, they have two almost teenage daughters, two good jobs, a house and an excellent social life. They have everything the system expects of them and what they themselves had imagined when they started their life project together. Tonight,[...]

Synopsis Electronic music echoes all around the valley. Nobody in the village can sleep because of a rave. Two colleagues who live in the village return from the party, in the early hours. The first gets lost and ends up discovering a marihuana plantation in the middle of a forest.[...]

Who is brave enough to write theatre live, without any advance idea of what is going to happen? Come to the Sala Beckett and experience the energy of the Odissea Beckett, a live playwriting competition for playwrights created by Marcos Xalabarder, director of the Escriptura en Viu Association. Join in[...]

L’Obrador d’estiu is one of the most important events in Sala Beckett’s artistic and training offer. That is why we want to celebrate the ending of its 19th Edition with a festive proposal: a night of music with a selection of DJs close to Sala Beckett and the theatre sector.[...]