Vicente de Ramón and the Alicante Theatre Lab
The SGAE Foundation, through its Territorial Council of SGAE for the Community of Valencia, presents a dramatic reading format featuring the voices of Alicante authors who participated in the I Theater Writing Laboratory, The Memory of Our Streets. The works include Iván Gisbert López’s Las cenizas de la yaya, Tomás Ferrando Agulló’s Una carta, David Sánchez Pacheco’s La cara más bonita de Sant Francesc, and Elizabeth Sogorb’s El último bus.
The performance will be held at the Rafael Altamira Hall of the City University Campus in Alicante, located at Avda. Ramón y Cajal, 4. The event takes place on Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m., with free entry while capacity lasts. The presentation will be led by the dramatists Juan Luis Mira, a member of the SGAE Territorial Council for the Community of Valencia and a promoter of the project, and Vicente de Ramón, the laboratory tutor and director of the dramatic reading. The dramatic readings will be staged by Raquel González, Iván Gisbert, Elizabeth Sogorb, and Gemma Martínez.
The Memory of Our Streets is a theater writing workshop aimed at authors living in Alicante province. Its goal is to foster the creation of new dramatic works and to support emerging writers. Grounded in the idea of uniting collective and personal memory around a specific urban space in Alicante, the four selected writers developed their texts over six sessions, under the guidance of the dramatist Vicente de Ramón.
“A city is understood only when one penetrates the soul of its streets” explains Vicente de Ramón. “This project sought to fuse the soul of the streets with the core of each dramatic proposal. The main challenge lay in ensuring the street did not serve merely as a backdrop but became part of the plot itself. In the end, all four pieces achieved a delicate balance where the characters, the street life, and the author’s emotional memory intertwine.”
Vicente de Ramón, a Special Tutor
An actor, director, and screenwriter, Vicente de Ramón Perea studied Dramatic Arts at the Royal Higher School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid. He trained at the Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Alicante and at the Shakespeare Institute’s Acting and Character Building workshops at the University of Valencia.
His career began in 1989 as an actor, writer, and director with Lentejilla y Pimentón. Since then he has worked as an actor with the Generalitat Valenciana’s Centre Dramàtic and with groups such as Pícara Comedia, La Compañía del Hombre Colgante, and Apiti Pitina. He has also participated in institutional outreach programs and in guided tours of the Santa Bárbara Castle, the Alicante Archaeological Museum, and the Enclave Wall Museum in Molina del Segura.
In 2021 he founded his own stage production platform, Vicente de Ramón Producciones, which creates and stages theatrical visits for municipalities in Alicante and Benejúzar. He has directed and led theatre workshops and published works including Eros en el laberinto, Viajes extraordinarios de un comediante, and El último refugio del león.
David Sánchez
David Sánchez is among the selected authors with his piece La cara más bonita de Sant Francesc. The monologue explores memories, history, and confidences of Francesc, a young man who dreamed since childhood of becoming an artist.
He leaves his rural hometown and travels to Alicante in pursuit of a future beyond hardship and drought. He seeks a life of artistic and personal freedom, a journey toward identity and possibility.
In the city, he is welcomed by Doña Inés at a flat on San Francisco Street. Before a mirror, as he dresses and applies makeup for a day when dreams come true, he recounts his life, his secrets, and the reality of a street that is no longer the same.
David Sánchez Pacheco, born in Torremondo, Orihuela, in 1994, earned a degree in Catalan Philology from the University of Alicante, and he is currently pursuing doctoral studies in performing arts. He has studied with Jordi Galceran, Pere Riera, Sergi Belbel, and Joan Miquel Reig, among others. He has been a finalist and winner in several theater awards and has written widely for stage and prose.
Tomás Ferrando
Tomás Ferrando contributes Una carta. The narrative follows Carmen and Angélica meeting in the Explanada de España in 1993, fifty-four years after Carmen left into exile. The encounter is framed by a confession in the form of a letter that Angélica never dared to deliver in 1939.
Ferrando presents Una carta as a tribute to love, freedom, and friendship, a chorus against war and intolerance, and a life lesson that reminds us that it is never too late and that sometimes fate can be outmaneuvered.
Tomás Ferrando Agulló, born in Elche, Alicante in 1977, holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Alicante. He has earned recognition in poetry, narrative, and essay. In theater he has won several prizes, including the Isabel Agüera National Theater Award in 2017 and the International Minimum Theater Award in 2020, along with the Requena International Short Theater Prize in 2023.
He has premiered several micro-theater works and published a poetry collection and a novel, both lauded in competitions and critical circles.
Iván Gisbert
Iván Gisbert participates with Las cenizas de la yaya. The story follows a midlife corporate woman who leaves court with speed, having just formalized her grandmother’s death. She carries a urn and a letter. The grandmother’s last wish was for the ashes to be scattered in a ficus that also shelters the grandfather’s ashes.
Upon arriving, a man in his fifties, dressed in vintage attire, stands by the tree. The woman asks him to leave so she may complete the task alone, yet he remains calm and steadfast. The exchange strains the woman to the brink, and she opens up, revealing a secret known only to her and her grandmother, a truth the man then shares.
Iván Gisbert López, born in Alicante in 1970, is an actor with a long career on stage. He has acted in numerous productions including El trueque, El amor debería estar prohibido, and El perro del hortelano, plus musical comedies like Duty Free and Yogurtu. He has also worked in film and television, appearing in Llegaron de noche and series such as Amar es para siempre, Vidas paralelas, Las chicas del cable, and El secreto de Puente Viejo.
Elizabeth Sogorb
Elizabeth Sogorb contributes El último bus. The tale unfolds in Alicante during the autumn of 1989. Three teenagers get off the last stop of a bus coming from San Vicente. The Calderón de la Barca street greets them with its shop windows as their parents fear their nocturnal excursions to the Bugatti nightclub.
Between the boys and the slow dances, the afternoon speeds by and the last bus back to San Vicente is almost gone. If they miss it, a serious punishment awaits at home.
Elizabeth Sogorb, born in Alicante in 1975, earned a degree in Dramatic Arts with a focus on Musical Theater and Directing. She co-founded Els Saineters in 1994 and in 2019 created her own company, La Sogorb Artes Escénicas, producing works by Josi Alvarado such as Vivan las trágicas and El manual de la señora de la limpieza.
She is part of the international Fronteiras Theatre Lab company based in Scotland. Sogorb also teaches, translates and directs both classic and contemporary theater texts, and coordinates workshops for educational and therapeutic programs.