Events archive

Description: McDonald's book lays bare the legal and political consequences of Washington's pursuit of militarised counterterrorism in the post-9/11 era.

Description: 'Big Boy' is a thrilling tale with more than 100 characters but only two actors, who, with an empty stage, take us from the First World War to the dazzling lights of Prohibition era New York paying homage to those who had to emigrate and abandon their land and roots to enter an unknown world.

Description: A piece of historical and political theatre by Juan Mayorga, one of the most successful Spanish contemporary playwriters, about a triumvirate of characters, set in World War II. A fable of the past that serves as a tool to talk about the present and to reflect on how our minds can be moulded to the convenience of those in power.

Description: "Encerrona" is a reflection on the everyday from the perspective of a clown. The character experiences being trapped on stage. For just over an hour, Pepe Viyuela, one of Spain most talented actors, is forced to act for an audience that watches him intensely. He is alone and his only companions are a series of objects with which he tries to work around; a guitar, a chair, a jacket, a newspaper and a ladder. We are faced with a metaphor in which the clown is each of us and his act is nothing but our lives.

Description: 'Rosaura' is a theatrical piece inspired by the play 'Life is a Dream'. Taking this pinnacle work by Calderón de la Barca as reference, the play will switch the attention to its heroine, Rosaura. In their story, the verses of Calderón will engage in an open dialogue with reality today through storytelling.

Description: In this workshop Mario Ruz Martínez and José Luis Montiel Chaves, from Guantuguan Teatro, will talk about their experiences when working with characters on stage through movement. The actors will show the importance of the body as a creative tool for inhabiting different characters on stage.

Description: Raimon Molins, director of Atrium, will speak about conventions and the future of staging and contemporary dramaturgy, taking Juan Mayorga's Himmelweg as a point of departure.

Description: Professor David Johnston will speak on what it means to translate a play like Himmelweg - about how and what we remember and how we relate to and memorialise the past.

Description: In this workshop Paula Rodríguez y Sandra Arpa, from Teatro Inverso, discuss their practical research into the Classics of the Spanish Golden Age with the aim of providing useful tools to the contemporary actor to work with the Classical verse.

Description: Pepe Viyuela will give a talk about his experience with Payasos sin Fronteras (Clowns without Borders), an NGO that he has been a part of for over twenty years and that he has travelled to places in conflict with (Kosovo, Iraq, Palestine), in order to make children who suffer from the horrors of war, laugh.