Places must be reserved in advance until full capacity is reached. This event is aimed primarily at Dramático Professionals.
Teatro María Guerrero | Sala Grande
On the Monday before the event, detailed information and booking instructions will be sent by email to the members of Dramático Professionals. Requests will be accepted in strict order of arrival.
18 MAY 2024 at 12:00 If places are available, attendance will be opened up to the general public.
Theatre and reality
The class will try to approach the possibilities offered by theatre to talk about reality. In a time in which reality is shown to us in an enormously theatrical way, perhaps the challenge comes from taking the opposite path, that of stripping reality of representative and spectacular aspects and bringing it closer to what is considered essential.
The fact of having dealt with narrative from literature and film also offers the possibility of relating both disciplines with dramaturgy. Instead of understanding them as isolated departments, the evolution of language invites us to consider them as branches of the same experience. Theatre not so much seen as an end, but as a beginning. The impact of representations of reality on reality itself offers us a possibility to explore narrative language as an element of sociability.
The word theatre is often used as an element referring to the inventive, the spectacular and the imagined. However, its origins are almost always anchored in the space of the lived experience, of personal and social experience.
David Trueba studied journalism and began working in the press, radio and television. His first credit as a scriptwriter was with the film Amo tu cama rica (1992), followed by titles such as Los peores años de nuestra vida (1994), Two Much (1995), Perdita Durango (1997), La niña de tus ojos (1998), Vengo (2000) and Balseros (2002), the only Spanish documentary nominated for an Oscar to date. His career as a director begins in 1996 with the film La buena vida, presented at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. In 2000 he directed Obra maestra and in 2003 Soldados de Salamina, presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2006, he received the Best Director Award at the Malaga Festival for Bienvenido a casa. That same year, with Luis Alegre, he directed a film about Fernando Fernán-Gómez, La silla de Fernando. Written and directed in 2011, Madrid, 1987 was selected by the Sundance Festival. In 2013, he presented Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados in the official section of the San Sebastián festival, a film which received six Goya Awards and was selected to represent Spain at the Oscars. Casi 40, 2018, was recognised with the Special Jury Award at the Festival of Málaga. In 2019, he presented Si me borrara el viento lo que yo canto, a documentary on Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. In 2020, A este lado del mundo was released at the Festival of Málaga, a film that could not be distributed in rooms due to the pandemic .
Parallel to his career in film he has maintained his literary and press activity. He has published six novels, all of them published by Anagrama and translated into more than ten languages: Abierto toda la noche (1995), Cuatro amigos (1999), Saber perder (2008), which won the National Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist in the prestigious Médecis Prize in its French translation, Blitz (2015), Tierra de campos (2017) and Queridos niños (2021).
With Anagrama, he has also published two short books of essays: La tiranía sin tiranos (2018) and Earn a living (2020).
His press articles have been collected in several anthologies.