Denise Despeyroux Aimed at: Dramaturgy and Performance for Drama Professionals
12- 15 FEB 2024, from 10:00 to 14:00 Full details of the workshop will be sent by email when the registration period opens and only to Dramático Professionals related to the professional profile of the workshop.
Teatro Valle-Inclán | Sala El Mirlo Blanco
Based on the phrase of the renowned Finnish psychiatrist Ben Furman, we propose the creation of scenes that revolve around the theatrical manipulation of a potentially traumatic childhood memory. This “memory” may be perfectly or imperfectly real or even completely invented. Tools and strategies for working with these and other materials will be provided, always from a playful and theatrical perspective, and not from a psychological approach.
The performers will be at the service of the authors and the authors at the service of the performers, training us in a theatricality where text, staging and acting emerge and develop simultaneously, in a perpetual and fruitful exchange.
The aim is to move towards the creation of small plays, which can be either one-person or multi-character, and which can have different levels of development, always depending on the possibilities of play and display offered by the scenic material that we will be putting together.
Denise Despeyroux is an author, stage director, actress and teacher. She has premiered more than twenty plays in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Montevideo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and London, many of them privately produced and others produced and exhibited by public theatres such as the Centro Dramático Nacional, the Teatro Español and the Teatro Arriaga.
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Titles such as La Realidad, Carne viva, Los dramáticos orígenes de las galaxias espirales and Un tercer lugar have seen her recognised as one of the most unique and interesting voices in contemporary Spanish playwriting. Since 2014, she has been a regular candidate for Best Playwright at the Max Awards, and has been a finalist on several occasions. It was also a finalist, in 2018, for the Valle-Inclán Prize, the highest award in Spanish theatre. One of her latest works, La omisión del si bemol tres, has been nominated twice, for Best Writing and Best Production Work.
Last season we saw Canción para volver a casa at the Teatro Valle-Inclán, written and directed for the company T de Teatre and premiered in Catalan at Sala Beckett (Grec Festival de Barcelona, 2019).
In addition to Catalan and Basque, her work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Polish and Japanese, and some of her works have premiered in English, French, Italian, German and Romanian.
With a degree in Philosophy and a diploma in Social Education, Denise Despeyroux has an interest in the pedagogy of theatre and has been training professional actors on a regular basis for more than twenty years. She has also given courses on stage creation and dramaturgy in numerous cities in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Valencia, Malaga, Huelva, Cuenca, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria) and abroad (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Mexico City, Miami, London and Rome).
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