XVII Obrador d’Estiu de la Sala Beckett [15th Summer Workshop at the Sala Beckett]

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An international meeting point for new contemporary drama, featuring workshops, seminars, debates and dramatised readings.

This year’s call proposes courses, and workshops with authors such as Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs (Catalonia), Michael Attenborough (England), Dimitris Dimitriadis (Greece), Ella Hickson (England), Neil LaBute (USA), Katie Mitchel (England) and Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Germany), among others.

Besides the activities of a professional nature aimed at the current and future professional theatre community, it includes dramatised readings and other activities open to the general public.

Courses and workshops:

Playwriting courses

From Drama to Drama (Theatre as the Art of the Present)

With Dimitris Dimitriadis (Greece)

From 11 to 16 July
 

The Gaze (a training) 

With Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Germany)

From 11 to 16 July
 

Theatre and Ecology (online workshop)

With Katie Mitchell (United Kigdom)

From 18 to 20 July

 

Stage creation workshops

This is where the damn title of the workshop should go 

With Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs (Catalonia)

From 11 to 16 July
 

Following the white rabbit

With Marta Pazos (Spain)

15 and 16 July

 

Workshop for professional actors and actresses

The Role of the Actor in the Role 

With Neil LaBute (EUA) and Michael Attenborough (United Kigdom)

From 11 to 16 July

 

Open to the audience:

Emerging Playwrights International Meeting 

Love, marriage and other minor issues. 

With Ella Hickson (United Kigdom)

 

Staged readings in Poblenou Central Park

Admission is free, but advanced booking is required:

Love, marriage and other minor issues. 

Directed by: Iván Morales

From 11 to 13 July

Entrevistes breus amb dones excepcionals, de Joan Yago

Autorship and direction: Joan Yago

14 July
 

La cadena de frío

Authorship: Yaiza Berrocal

Directed by: Roberto Romei

15 July
 

Open Micro

15 July

 

Performings

Licaó

Authorship: Dimitris Dimitriadis

Translated by: Joan Casas

Directed by: Albert Arribas

11 July, at 12.30 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Paid event

La tríada

Authorship: Marta Barceló, Llàtzer Garcia, Joan Yago

Directed by: Joan Fullana

11 July, at 8 p.m.

Obrador d’estiu opening performance.

Paid event

Talk

A coffee with… 

Every day after lunch, we propose an informal meeting at the bar with some of the participants of the Obrador d'estiu and Grec 2022 Festival de Barcelona.

From 12 to 14 July, at 3.15 p.m.

Free admission.
 

Unless stated otherwise, all the activities will be held at the Sala Beckett (C/Pere IV, 228, 232). The staged readings will take place in the open air, in Poblenou Central Park (Av. Diagonal, 130).
 

Further information:

www.salabeckett.cat/en/the-summer-workshop

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