SGAE Foundation, via the SGAE Regional Council of the Valencian Community, presents four dramatic projects in the inaugural Theater Writing Lab. These works, linked to Alicante, include Those memories of our streets, a piece connected to last bus and Elizabeth Sogorb; Street of Two Hundreds, tied to Iván Gisbert López; A Letter, associated with Tomás Ferrando Agulló; and Paca, not Franciscorelated to David Sánchez Pacheco.
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Through a program designed for playwrights based in the province of Alicante, the initiative aims to spark new dramatic writing and to nurture emerging creators. The selected authors will have the chance to develop their works, each centered on a street in Alicante and rooted in a fusion of collective and personal memory. They will receive guidance from Vicente de Ramón, whose instruction informed the process. The texts produced from the initial participant gathering at the Alicante City University Headquarters are planned to be published in a dramatized reading format in February 2024.
The judging panel, comprising Juan Luis Mira, Rodolf Sirera, both playwrights and members of the SGAE Regional Council of the Valencian Community, and Vicente de Ramón, the project’s author and instructor, underscored the exceptional originality and quality of the entries. They also hinted at the possibility of expanding the theater laboratory to other locations across the Valencian Community. Mira emphasized that the program aims for a harmonious fusion of collective and individual memory around urban space, noting that the selected projects are seeds for a drama that examines the present through everyday, local history.
The four creators spoke from their distinct viewpoints, expressing satisfaction at joining the lab Known as Those memories of our streets. Iván Gisbert López described the project as an opportunity to “give voice to the city’s history,” while David Sánchez reflected that theater serves as a powerful instrument to justify Alicante’s cultural, historical, urban, and linguistic memory.
About the laboratory instructor, Vicente de Ramón
Vicente de Ramón Perea is an actor, director, and screenwriter who studied Dramatic Art at the Royal School of Dramatic Art in Madrid and participated in the Actor Training Workshop of the Juan Gil-Albert Studies Institute in Alicante. He also engaged with the Stage Rhetoric and Character Creation Workshops at the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Valencia.
His career began in 1989 with the Lentejilla y Pimentón Clown Company, taking roles as actor, writer, and director. He subsequently contributed to productions at the Center Dramàtic de la Generalitat Valenciana and worked with theater groups such as Pícara Comedia, La Compañía del Hombre Colgante, and Apiti Pitina. Beyond the stage, he has led outreach programs and organized theater visits to cultural sites around Alicante, including Santa Barbara Castle, the Alicante Archaeological Museum, and Molina del Segura Mural Site Museum. In 2021, he launched his own platform, Vicente de Ramón Producciones, creating and directing a series of theater visits for Alicante and Benejúzar. He has directed and taught workshops, published several books, and earned recognitions such as 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).