The transformation in the editing of dramatic texts with the emergence of some publishing houses in recent years; The role the specialized press currently plays in making contemporary writing visible and the challenges playwrights face as festival and theater programmers are some of the topics that will be covered at this conference. professional days Organized by the XXXI Exhibition of the Guillermo Heras Theater of Spanish Contemporary Writers Between 3 – 11 November in different places of the city.
More than fifty writers as well as editors, programmers, translators and expert journalists People from the theater industry from all over Spain and other countries England, France, Poland, Italy and Romania, We have confirmed their participation in these days, which will take place in parallel with the exhibition of shows, workshops and reading clubs.
Las Cigarreras Cultural Center will host professional conferences four round tables for professionals and free access pre-registration. The theme of the paintings was inspired by some of the works of the recently deceased playwright, stage director and cultural manager Guillermo Heras to make Spanish dramaturgy visible. in the fields of editing, translation and management. Therefore, the discussion tables will be opened with the reflection of the person who has been running the Writers’ Showcase for 29 years. tribute with dramatized reading I always wanted (confinement delirium) And with a textual narrative, About friendship, It will be located on the first floor of Teatre Arniches. This exhibition was realized in collaboration with prestigious Ibero-American theater professionals such as Rafael Spregelburd, Gabriela Halac, Mauricio Kartun or Carlos Pacheco, among others.
Discussion tables
Dramaturg Aina Tur will be responsible for the coordination theater writing and artistic direction tableIt will start at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning with the participation of Silvia Albert (Cimarronas Circle of Barcelona), Alberto Conejero (Madrid Autumn Festival), Maria Goiricelaya (Navarra Olite Festival) and Alfredo Sanzol (National Dramatic Centre). They all simultaneously share the same status as artistic director and playwright, with the aim of reflecting how contemporary theater writing is made visible in their programs and how the stories that compose them dialogue with the challenges and debates of contemporary society. All of this pays particular attention to the heterogeneity of voices represented in scenes and the difficulties of taking gender, intellectual, functional, ethnic and economic differences into account when programming and writing.
The second discussion table of the day will start at 12.30. The importance of dissemination and the role of the specialized press before the current scene. The meeting will be coordinated by the journalist Daniel Galindo (Director of the La Salade RNE program) will accompany him José Antonio Alba (Godot Magazine), Olga Baeza (editor of The Critical Eye and director of A Compás at RNE), Julio Bravo (playwright and expert journalist for ABC) and Raul Losanez (critic and playwright at La Razón).
According to the RAE, disclosure is the publication, expansion, or making of something publicly available. What is not transferred continues to exist but does not go very far. The purpose of the meeting proposed in the exhibition is, How knowledge about performing arts is expressed in public and private media, print media, radio, television and the internet; the relationship between authors, companies and programmers and the journalists responsible for the selection and distribution of content; the function of criticism; the rise of other windows of dissemination, such as social networks and the professionalization of press representatives in cultural communication, among other issues.
Discussion board on theater editing and writing It will start at 16.00. In this case the moderator will be Eduardo Pérez-Rasilla, Madrid III. Professor, researcher and theater critic at Carlos University. The discussion was completed with the participation of the participants. Felipe Diez (Punto de Vista Editores, Madrid) Marina Laboreo (Editor Comanegra, Barcelona), Conchita Piña (Antígona Editions, Madrid) and Carlos Rod (La Uña Rota Ediciones, Segovia).
The purpose of this table is to analyze. The transformation in the functioning of theater broadcasting over the last decades. The main problems of the industry in the eighties and nineties concerned the low volume of publication of contemporary theater writing, poor distribution, and little interest in the reading of contemporary dramatic texts even by theater professionals themselves. . Was there really a demand? What was the reason for this indifference of the cultural press and bookstores? At the turn of the century, things are starting to change, especially in digital publishing. Many studies published in those years identify certain routines in the publications of contemporary playwrights. These are limited projection collections published by universities, public institutions, or specialized journals. However, specialized publishing projects that go beyond the large general publishing houses are beginning to emerge. Some of these smaller publishers have taken great care to publish and promote their books, developing various strategies to attract new readers. At the roundtable presented by the exhibition, four of these publishers will present the different strategies they have implemented in recent years to make contemporary dramatic literature visible. Did they work? How has the situation developed from the 90s to today? What challenges will these publishers have in the future?
The fourth and final discussion table of the XXXI edition of the exhibition will begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, and International projection through translation. Fernando Gomez-Grande He will coordinate this table, which will include participants such as: Agnieszka Stachurska (Poland), Delicate Pine (Italy), Rachel Very Good (England), Christilla Vasserot (France) and Voina-Raut Luminite (Romania).
“Last year, coinciding with our thirtieth anniversary, we set the goal of making Alicante once again one of the main focal points of discussion, reflection and analysis on the current state of Spanish dramaturgy,” says artistic director Mónica Pérez Blanquer. example-. In the last edition we focused the discussion on the question of whether the contemporary playwright is a writer who works off the stage or, on the contrary, whether he needs his text to be translated onto the stage in order to fulfill his function. During these meetings, another question arose again and again, this year the hero of our day: What are the needs, challenges and shortcomings posed by the visibility of Spanish live dramaturgy? “As the artistic director of the exhibition, it seems important for me to facilitate the formation of a pluralistic perspective on the sector.”
exposure Letters to Guillermo Heras: About friendship
Alicante Teatre Arniches will host the Writers’ Exhibition An exhibition dedicated to Guillermo Heras titled About friendship and in coordination playwright Xavier Puchades and researcher Eduardo Pérez-Rasilla. This is a small sample of posters where you can read a series of letters to Heras written by Latin American theater professionals such as Raquel Araujo (Mexico). Octavio Arbeláez (Colombia), Marcelo Bones (Brazil), Cipriano Argüello Pitt (Argentina), Gabriel Halac (Argentina), Mauricio Kartun (Argentina), Carlos Pacheco (Argentina), Ana Lucía Ramírez G (Mexico) and Rafael Spregelburd (Argentina). .
“How many speeches by Guillermo Heras did the walls of the Teatre Arniches lobby hear before and after the performances?” – coordinators ask themselves -. The Contemporary Writers’ Spanish Theater Performance was born in this theater 31 years ago. Gabriela Halac writes to Guillermo: “Many of us became friends through you because your habit was to name names, recommend people, spread the news and books. So we strangers gradually got to know each other, and the theater environment became more permeable, kinder, closer and more hospitable.”
According to those responsible for the exhibition, the purpose of this exhibition of words, which is a tribute to Guillermo, is as follows: “Theatrical unknowns who make up the public opinion should be able to get to know better the person who has been the artistic director of this exhibition for 29 years. That’s why we asked a dozen Latin American theater professionals, Guillermo maintains many professional and friendly ties, to write him a letter. They immediately agreed and wrote many beautiful texts that would adorn the walls of the Teatre Arniches from 3 to 11 November. Viewers of the 31st edition of the exhibition will be able to read these letters alongside Guillermo’s own thoughts. In this way, we want to create the feeling that we can still talk to him within the walls of the theater lobby where it all began. So we invite you to keep talking to Guillermo and some of his best friends, because that’s what this exhibition of words is about, friendship.”