27 NOV – 1 DEC 2023, from 09:30 to 13:30 Detailed information about the workshop will be sent when the registration period opens, via email and only to Dramático Professionals related to the professional profile addressed in the workshop.
Teatro Valle-Inclán | Sala El Mirlo Blanco
Àlex Rigola will give a workshop this season for Dramático professionals in the category of acting.
Stage director and playwright. He is known for directing different theatre and opera productions at the Teatro Real, the Centro Dramático Nacional, the Teatro de La Abadía and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others. From 2003 to 2011 he was the director of the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, where he directed productions such as Cat on a hot tin roof, by Tennessee Williams; Nixon-Frost, by Peter Morgan; Rock & Roll, by Tom Stoppard (Barcelona Critics’ Prize, Terenci Moix Prize and two Max Awards); Richard III and Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare; Saint Joan of the Stockyards, by Bertolt Brecht (Grec 2004); Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet; and European House (pròleg a un Hamlet sense paraules), written by himself. From 2010 to 2016 he was director of the theatre section of the Venice Biennale, and from 2016 to 2017 he co-directed, with Natalia Álvarez Simó, the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. View more His shows have toured all over the world, including countries such as France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Russia, Hungary, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Taiwan and Australia, among others. Highlights of his career as a director include Ubu Roi, by Alfred Jarry; Long Day’s Journey into Night, by Eugene O’Neill; Better days, by Richard Dresser; Husbands and wives, based on a script by Woody Allen; Rat police, based on the story of the same name by Roberto Bolaño and 2.666, by the same author; Coriolanus, by Shakespeare; and Tragèdia, a visual poem based on Nietzsche’sThe Birth of Tragedy. He also directed the opera The Flying Dutchman, a co-production of the Liceu and the Teatro Real, and Madame Butterfly for La Fenice de Venècia. More recently, he has directed Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, Federico García Lorca’s The Public, Chekhov’s Ivanov, Who is Me. Pasolini (Poeta de las cenizas), about Pier Paolo Pasolini with idea, dramaturgy and direction by Rigola; Vanya, a free version of Chekhov’s classic; the installation-performance Macho Man (2018); Aquest país no descobert que no deixa tornar de les seves fronteres cap dels seus seus viatgers (2019), the latter two of which are Rigola’s own creations; La Gavina (2020); 23F. Anatomia d’un instant (2021), OFÈLIA (Panik Attack) (2021).