SGAE Foundation, through the SGAE Regional Council of the Valencian Community, Presents four dramatic projects participating in the first edition of Theater Writing Lab The memory of our streets related to Alicante. About last busrelated to Elizabeth Sogorb; Street of Two Hundredsrelated to Iván Gisbert López; a letterrelated to Tomás Ferrando Agulló; And Paca, not Franciscorelated to David Sanchez Pacheco.
Through this initiative for playwrights residing in the province of Alicante, the aim is to encourage the writing of new dramatic works and support emerging creators. For him, Those selected will have the opportunity to develop their projects, centered on a street in the city of Alicante, based on the integration of collective and personal memory, He took lessons from playwright Vicente de Ramón. At the end of the process, the texts resulting from the first meeting of the participants at the Alicante City University Headquarters will be published in a dramatized reading format in February 2024.
The jury consisted of Juan Luis Mira and Rodolf Sirera, playwrights and members of the SGAE Regional Council of the Valencian Community, and Vicente de Ramón, the author and instructor of the said project. They all wanted to emphasize the high originality and quality of the presented projects, as well as to announce the possibility that this theater laboratory could soon be moved to other locations in the Valencian Community. “It is important to emphasize the harmony of the texts, which is the main goal of the call: the fusion of collective and individual memory around urban space. According to Mira, the selected projects are the seeds of the development of a dramaturgy that explores the present, drawing on our most quotidian and local history.
The four selected creators expressed their opinions from their own perspectives. Satisfaction with the opportunity to participate in the laboratory The memory of our streets, In the words of Iván Gisbert, this will allow them to “give voice to the history of our city”. David Sánchez added: “I think that the task of justifying the cultural, historical, urban and linguistic memory of the city of Alicante with a tool as strong and powerful as the theater is necessary.”
About laboratory instructor Vicente de Ramón
Actor, director and screenwriter, Vicente de Ramón Perea studied Dramatic Art at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in Madridat the Actor Training Workshop of the Juan Gil-Albert Studies Institute in Alicante and at the Stage Rhetoric and Character Creation Workshops of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Valencia.
In 1989, he started working as an actor, screenwriter and stage director at the Lentejilla y Pimentón Clown Company. Since then he has worked as an actor in productions at the Center Dramàtic de la Generalitat Valenciana and in companies such as Pícara Comedia, La Compañía del Hombre Colgante or Apiti Pitina. He has also participated in corporate outreach programs and theater visits. Santa Barbara CastleAlicante Archaeological Museum or Molina del Segura Mural Site Museum. In 2021, he created his own stage production platform, Vicente de Ramón Producciones, where he writes and stages several theater visits for the municipalities of Alicante and Benejúzar. He directed and taught theater workshops and published books. Eros in the Labyrinth (Leonor Poetry Prize 1988), Extraordinary journeys of a comedian (2015 Hispania Historical Novel Award finalist) and The lion’s last refuge (First prize at the Breve Ciudad de Requena International Theater Competition 2023).