Let’s pretend we’re Shakespeare this is the name of the new one dramatic writing course It was created in October by the University of Alicante, by playwrights Juan Luis Mira and Francesc Sanguino, and teacher and theater director Xiomara Wanden. The offer came to them from the person in charge of the Vice Rector’s Office of Culture. Catalina Iliescufaced with the “ordinary” idea of a participation annual radio theater competition from RNE and another major provide tools to college theater classes. The course is about to end with the final application, but that’s how it’s intended to be. the beginning of something bigger and with a continuity that contributes to continuity over time “nurture new voices” between Dramaturgy in Alicante.
«The idea is to create a pool of writers and start buildingopen a channel for new professions and professions dramatic fiction writingThe playwrights state: Sanguino and Mira about this first attempt this year dedicated to radio drama and the final result is intended to be A study of waves It was created by students in a participatory manner.
«Our intention The theme of the course each year adding dramatic formats or genres,” they point out after explaining that content can help write both a play and a play. movie script or a fiction seriesbut with this initial idea “we saved the lost radio format and news podcasting has led to a resurgence of this type of dramatized fiction in recent years.
In any case, the background «creating a dramatic production They agree by saying, “For the first time at the university, we are starting from professions with a technical background.”
Intergenerational students
Students belong undergraduate, graduate courses and is also enrolled at the UA Permanent University, so the result is “quite intergenerational”, and the group itself, among others, is a student of the vice-rector for Culture.
Iliescu states: “We write dialogues, short stories We form one of hundreds of words that can spark a theatrical dialogue and Each one writes our scene. We don’t know if several will eventually be combined, or if one will be selected for the actual exercise and interpreted. This is a very complete course», says Catalina Iliescu with satisfaction.
After the first introduction to the class, Sanguino and Mira ask the students to 60 course hours and 6 credits-they devoted themselves to it “write and write”first, mechanically, with the texts of other authors such as Jordi Galcerán or Sergi Bellver, “to imitate and somehow protect your music” and then each alone. In addition to writing their own script, each student will play the interpretation experience to “involve them in the staging as a team and enable them to act.”
Practice with the public
HE 29 February The course is coming to an end, and the last lesson of the workshop will be stage performances that will be open to the public “so that the teachers can understand what theater is, even if it is radio.”
Both are happy with the project and believe that it is also a result. “natural inertia” “since then” as Alicante has a long tradition of theatrical writing Carlos Arnishler with Joaquín Dicenta, J. D. Suttonourselves, Lola Blasco or Josi Alvarado» and in a city with a Writers’ Showcase. Success will be that one day, “Any writer appearing in the exhibition for the first time will be able to say that they wrote their first dialogue in this course.” I’m acting like I’m Shakespeare.