Preparatory meeting in Barcellona – Sala Beckett

Artistic Residence of the Rumanian Playwright Bogdan Georgescu in Barcelona – from 6th to 13th December 2015

Rumanian playwright Bogdan Georgescu is going to take part in a week-long artistic residence at the Sala Beckett in the context of the European project Fabulamundi. During his stay in Barcelona, Georgescu is going to attend the rehearsals of the work-in-progress of his play Antisocial, is going to talk to secondary school students about playwriting and is going to take part in a post-show talk.

12th and 13th December 2015 Work-in-progress: Antisocial by Bogdan Georgescu
Translated into Catalan by Xavier Montoliu Pauli. Directed by Aleix Fauró.

A province town high school, year 2015, Romania. The students create a secret group on social media. The teachers find out, infiltrate and take action. With the support of some of the students. # freedom of expression # violation of privacy # trust # respect # comment # educational system # trashed # public space # snitch # slander # share # lack of professionalism # bribe # like # outdated # dialog @ any level # how far are we from the caves we came from? # hashtag.

Antisocial is an Active Art play combining devising theatre, documentary theatre and observational performing techniques, exploring new types of theatricality and dramatic structures. The play was originally produced by the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu and the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

THE AUTHOR: Bogdan Georgescu (Romania)

Artist, observationist. Tools in use: playwriting, community theatre, video composing, producing, social intervention, project management. Soros Fellow of UEP 2004; Cornerstone alumni of Institute 2, CEC Arts Link Fellow – residency hosted by Brown University, Writing for Stage Program. He works as an artist in creative processes based on the collaboration with the community involved and interdisciplinarity for Active Art project such as The Sensitive Map, RahovaNonstop, Build your community!, The Evacuation of The Student’s Culture House in Timisoara, The Countryside Tour, The House of People, Kickstart Limanu, ROGVAIV, For The Win, Triple Point, Everything is realities, Antisocial.

Plays and scripts include: Romania! Kiss me (produced by Play Company in New York 2006, The National Theatre of Iaşi, 2009) House of People (The Maximum Security Prison, Craiova), I am special – turneulatara.blogspot.com; XXXCartoons – participative theatre experiment in a virtual set; the documentary blogbook cornerstoneinstitute5.blogspot.com; D.W. – 3D text; ROGVAIV (published by PAJ – Performance Arts Journal, vol. XXXV, nr. 1 / 2012, PAJ 103, published by MIT Press, Cambridge MA), FTW, Triple Point, Everything is realities, ANTISOCIAL. Youtube channel: bo2gdan.

Sala Beckett will work on the text Muttersprache Mameloschn (Mother Tongue Mameloschn) written by the German author Marianna Salzmann. The whole work on the text will take place from 18th April to 1st May 2016.

July 5th – 13th  / Beginning of June / Sala Beckett (Barcelona – Spain)
– 1 artistic residence and staged presentation  with Marie Dilasser

The mise en espace of Antisocial by Bogdan Georgescu will be presented on 13th of July at Obrador d’estiu (Sala Beckett).
Translated into Catalan by Xavier Montoliu Pauli, directed by Aleix Fauró, with Arnau Comas, Isak Férriz, Marina Fita, Carles Gilabert, Pablo Macho, Isis Martín and Carmela Poch.
After the show there will be an aftertalk with the author and the cast.

About the text
A province town high school, year 2015, Romania. The students create a secret group on social media. The teachers find out, infiltrate and take action. With the support of some of the students. # freedom of expression # violation of privacy # trust # respect # comment # educational system # trashed # public space # snitch # slander # share # lack of professionalism # bribe # like # outdated # dialog @ any level # how far are we from the caves we came from? # hashtag.

Antisocial is an Active Art play combining devising theatre, documentary theatre and observational performing techniques, exploring new types of theatricality and dramatic structures. The play was originally produced by the Radu Stanca National Theatre of Sibiu and the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Mise en espace Muttersprache Mameloschn (Mother Tongue Mameloschn) by Marianna Salzmann
Within the GREC 2016 Festival de Barcelona

Translation: Maria Bosom
Direction: Thomas Sauerteig
Cast: Marta Angelat, Míriam Iscla and Alba Pujol
Assitant Director: Júlia Bauer

Three women, three generations, three sets of aspirations: grandmother, mother and daughter. Social dependencies repeat and vary across the generations: What was it like living as a Jewish woman 50 years ago in the GDR, and what does it mean today?
Mother Tongue Mameloschn raises questions about the characters’ identity, where they belong and their homeland, all against the background of the latent anti-Semitism that was widespread in the GDR, of which the mother has bitter memories. Even if some things have changed since then and they now enjoy different freedoms, the questions about liberty and how to lead a self-determined life have remained the same.

l’Obrador d’estiu | 11/07/16, 19.00

Marie Dilasser in Barcelona | Artistic Residence of the French Playwright at the Sala Beckett

Sala Beckett – Poblenou
from 05/07/16 to 13/07/16

French playwright Marie Dilasser is going to take part in a week-long artistic residence at the Sala Beckett in the context of the European project Fabulamundi. During her stay in Barcelona, Dilasser is going to attend the rehearsals of the work-in-progress of her play Paisatge interior brut, directed by Glòria Balañà i Altimira, and she is going to carry out several activities to get to know Barcelona’s theatrical reality.

The prèmiere will be on 12th of July, in collaboration with Grec Festival at l’Obrador d’estiu.
After the show, there will be an aftertalk with the author of the text, the director, the translator and the actress.

Author: Marie Dilasser
Translation: Carles Batlle
Direction: Glòria Balañà i Altimira
Cast: Aina Calpe
Videoprojections: Alfonso Ferri

About Paysage Intérieur Brut:
Since she returned from a psychiatric hospital, Bernadette has spent most of her time shut away in her kitchen. As a woman violently separated from active life, the kitchen, along with her children’s play area and her husband’s farm which she can see through the glazed window, becomes the territory where she puts her life in order. Playing, in turn, the role of her children, her husband, her mother, her dog and her old boss, she will try to emerge from her isolation.

First Audience Development workshop with Sala Beckett/Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia.

The Spanish authors Victoria Szpunberg, Helena Tornero and Joan Yago are working with Syrian immigrants recently established in Barcelona in Síria: cartografia incompleta. Open presentation: 16th December.

More info are available on the Sala Beckett website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/laboratori/siria-cartografia-incompleta/

A playwriting workshop for beginners (non-professionals) taught by Marc Artigau: (The Pleasure of) The First Line. From 10th October to 12th December 2017.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/curs/plaer-primera-replica/

On 9th and 10th October will be the second National Playwrights Meeting with all the Spanish authors selected and all the Fabulamundi’s partners.

Carles Batlle, Clàudia Cedó, Guillem Clua, Esteve Soler, Victoria Szpunberg, Helena Tornero and Joan Yago will be working with a group of translators from Catalan/Spanish into other languages to acquire skills of how to promote themselves into other countries. From 15^th to 17^th November 2017.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/activitat-resta/primeres-jornades-traduccio-teatre-catala-contemporani/

Clàudia Cedó is the resident playwright of the 2017-2018 season at Sala Beckett. From 18th December 2017 to 7th January 2018 will be the première of Clàudia Cedó’s plays Tortugues: la desacceleració de les partícules and L’home sense veu.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website:
https://www.salabeckett.cat/espectacle/tortugues-desacceleracio-particules/
https://www.salabeckett.cat/espectacle/lhome-sense-veu/

The text of Davide Carnevali “La Peppa Pig pren consciència de ser una porqueta, l’Oliver i en Benji pateixen les fluctuacions del mercat eurasiàtic i altres relats no gens infantils” will be presented at Sala Beckett on 30th January 2018.

Translation by Júlia Canosa i Serra
Directed by Davide Carnevali
with Mònica Almirall Batet, Ettore Colombo, Sergi Torrecilla

More information are available here.

At Sala Beckett will be the première of Josep Maria Miró’s play Olvidémonos de ser turistas. From 24^th January to 25^th February 2018.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/espectacle/olvidemonos-de-ser-turistas/

A playwriting workshop for beginners (non-professionals) lead by Esteve Soler: Learning from the Best. From 18^th January to 22^nd March 2018.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/curs/aprendre-dels-millors-3/

A playwriting workshop for beginners (non-professionals) led by Helena Tornero: The Unexpected Writing. From 17th January to 21st March 2018.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/curs/lescriptura-inesperada-2/

Davide Carnevali will lead a workshop about “Teatralitats contemporànies entre presentació i representació” at Sala Beckett Obrador International o de Dramatúrgia in Barcelona in Spain. Workshop it’s an advanced course of dramaturgy for professionals.

A playwriting workshop for beginners (non-professionals) lead by Josep M. Miró: Writing Drama, Today. From 9th January to 17^th February 2018.

More info are available on Sala Beckett’s website: https://www.salabeckett.cat/curs/escriure-teatre-avui-2/

From 25th to 27th April there will the first Mob Pro in London

The Spanish author Carles Battle will lead a workshop about contemporary dramaturgy from April 24th to June 12th.

On 25 June Sala Beckett will host Clàudia Cedó’s play Una gossa en un descampat, directed by Sergi Belbel.

On 18 June at Sala Beckett there will be the stage reading by students of Aprendre dels millors course held by Esteve Soler.

From 19-21 July Polish author Anna Wakulik will lead the workshop “Ain’t it funny?”. On 19 and 20 July at Sala Beckett there will also be the stage presentation of “A time to reap” by Anna Wakulik. The text has just been published by Sala Beckett

From 18-20 July there will be Mob Pro – Spain, 3 days of meeting and training to stimulate and raise awareness through open discussions on the role and position of playwrights in contemporary society. Fabulamundi artists involved will be Muhammet Ali Basf for Austria, Roman Sikora for the Czech Republic, French author Lancelot Hamelin,  German playwrights Jelena Schulte and  Katharina Schlender, Roberto Scarpetti for Italy, Polish authors Dana Lukasinska and Sandra Szwarc, Mihaela Michailov for Romania. For Spain will be involved local playwright Ferran Joanmiquel together with others Fabulamundi Spanish authors.

From 9th to 14th July the Spanish author Victoria Szpunberg will lead a workshop for beginners/non-professionals entitled What are the real rules? at Sala Beckett.

On 10 July French author Pauline Peyrade will lead a writing seminar and her play “Poings”, always published by Sala Beckett, will be having a stage presentation on 9 and 10 July

On December Sala Beckett hosts German author Bonn Park to lead a workshop that takes place from 10 to 13; the playwright will also be present at the stage presentation of his text Das Knurren der Milchstrasse (The Rumbling of the Milky Way), on stage from 14 to 15.

From 22-24 January at Sala Beckett there will be the stage presentation of Peppa Pig realizes she’s a swine by Italian playwright Davide Carnevali. The author will also lead a workshop for teenagers.

January will kick off the Fabulamundi Drama Lab’s residencies abroad. Italian author Irene Petra Zani will fly to Sala Beckett in Barcelona where she will work from 21-25 January on her text Il Bambolo with the translator Joan Casas.

From 5-7 March Teatr Dramatyczny will host the Mob Pro-Warsaw, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. The theme of this session will be We and they – on different aspects of cultural narcissisms and will see the involvement of international experts and a selection of ten Fabulamundi playwrights: Alexandra Badea, Clàudia Cedó, Nathalie Fillion, Bogdan Georgescu, Industria Indipendente, Petr Kolečko, Bonn Park, Volker Schmidt and Csaba Szekely.

Fabulamundi – Call for Associate Researcher

Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as Associate Researcher for our academic research project ‘Fabulamundi Workbook: Mapping Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Practices in Europe’, led by Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

This is a highly flexible part-time role which would suit a recently appointed Lecturer, post-doc, or PhD student based at any higher education institution in the EU, who could freely choose to spend their paid research time on this project. The position starts in June 2019 and ends in July 2020. The Associate Researcher will receive a small honorarium.

From 21 to 23 May Wiener Worstaetten will host the Mob-Pro Vienna, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. The theme of this session will be the tolerance and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eight Fabulamundi playwrights: Gerhild Steinbuch, Katerina Rudčenková, Nathalie Fillion, Kai Grehn, Liv Ferracchiati, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Radu Popescu, Josep Maria Miró.

I regret nothing by Romanian author Csaba Székely will be on stage on July 23-24 and on 24th  there will be a discussion with the audience at the end of the show with the participation of the author.

Avinguda Nacional by Czech playwright Jaroslav Rudiš will be presented on July 16th and 17th. On the 17th, the author will be invited in taking part in a public discussion after the show.

On July 15th there will be the stage readings of two Turkish twinned authors, Ayşe Bayramoğlu with Windows and Ceren Ercan with The Rebellion Day of Dogs.

From 9-10 July there will the stage presentation of the text paradies fluten – verirrte sinfonie by Austrian author Thomas Köck.

From 23-25 September, Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will host the Mob-Pro Germany, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in contemporary society.
The theme of this session will be Translation and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eleven Fabulamundi playwrights: Katja Brunner (Germany), David Drabek (Czech Rep.), Azar Mortazavi (Austria), Artur Pałyga (Poland), Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Italy), Guillaume Poix (France), Gabriel Sandu (Romania), Fabrizio Sinisi (Italy), Robert Woelfl (Austria), Joan Yago (Spain), Petr Zelenka (Czech Rep.).
During the MobPro, on September 23rd, there will also be presented a short version of Natura morta con attori by Fabrizio Sinisi and Nationalstrasse by Czech author Jaroslav Rudis  at Haus der Statistik.

After the success in the past season, the show Una gossa en un descampat by the Spanish author  Clàudia Cedó, will be on stage again until 13th of October.

The show by the Spanish author Claudia Cedó “Una perra en un descampado” will be presented for the first time in Madrid, at Centro Dramatico Nacional, from the 31st January until the 16th February.

From 14th January to 25th February the Italian author Davide Carnevali will lead the workshop Un teatre per als temps presents. Ètica, estètica i política del teatre contemporani.

Helena Tornero’s new play Demà will be on at Sala Beckett until the 8th of March.

Avinguda Nacional by Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš at Sala Beckett

From 24/11/2020 to 29/11/2020

Author: Jaroslav Rudiš

Translation: Naila Rami Oms

Directing and adaptation: Martí Torras Mayneris
Cast: Patrícia Bargalló, Babou Cham, Josep Julien and Oriol Roca
Set design: Judit Colomer

Lighting: Gane Gil

Costumes, characterisation and movement: Fàtima Campos

Sound: Oscar Villar
Music: Oriol Roca

Make-up: Mercè Sancamps
Costume adaptation: Giulia Grumi and Eli Siles

Stage combat: Isaac Morera

Assistant director: Fàtima Campos

Student on work experience in directing: Carles Rossell (ERAM)
Student on work experience in set design: Mariona Ríos Pérez (ELISAVA)
Thanks: Joan Carreras, Pepo Blasco, Mar Ulldemolins, Miguel García, Marta Santisteban, Xavi Ribalaygua, Pere Fontanet, Montse Miralles and Rafató Teatre
A Sala Beckett production within the context of the Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe project.

He calls himself Vandam. Like Jean-Claude van Damme. He’s a hero. A warrior. Continental. Knows everything about combat. He has an opinion on everything. Politics. Women. The world.
In 1989, in Prague, he marched down the National Avenue, which on 17 November hosted demonstration that led to the fall of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia.
Now, his second home is the bar Severka. This is his world. It is here where he talks about politics, where he curses, where sometimes he raises his right arm, evoking the Roman salute, gives lessons on life or breaks somebody’s teeth.

Avinguda Nacional, by Czech playwright Jaroslav Rudiš, is the culmination of the international stage creation project Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe, which aims to promote the knowledge and exchange of texts and authors between the different member countries. The Sala Beckett has formed part of it since 2017 together with theatres in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania.

At this link it’s possible to download the final report about Audience Development within Fabulamundi, written by Cristina Da Milano, for CAE-Culture Action Europe.

REPORT: Audience Development within Fabulamundi