Roundtable
Staging Strindberg
Participants
Pau Carrió i Llucià (Barcelona, 1981). Degree in Theatre Directing and Dramaturgy from the Barcelona Institut of Teatre (2004). He teaches at Eolia, at the Col·legi del Teatre and at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett, among other schools. For six seasons he formed part of the artistic direction team of the Teatre Lliure.
In 2017, he directed, adapted and translated Twelfth Night or What You Will by W. Shakespeare at the Teatre Lliure within the Festival Grec. Also in 2017 he premiered and directed his version of The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni in a production by La Perla 29, revived and on tour in 2018. In 2016 he directed, adapted and translated Hamlet by W. Shakespeare at the Teatre Lliure, which received the Butaca Award for the best performance and was revived in 2017. Also in 2016 he directed the three sessions of Catalan poetry Tinta d’Ambrosia at the Teatre Lliure. In 2014 he directed, adapted and translated Victòria d’Enric V by W. Shakespeare at the Teatre Lliure and at the Festival Grec. In 2013 he directed and wrote Cornellà, premiered at the Deustche Theatre in Berlin, and he formed part of David’s formidable speech on Europe, a project by Mitos21 within Autorentheater Tage. In 2013 he directed and translated Ivan i els gossos by Hattie Naylor at the Teatre Lliure (Crítica Serra d’Or Award for the best theatre show, revived and on tour the following season). In 2013 he also directed the reading of La sonata dels espectres, by August Stindberg at the Teatre Lliure. In 2013, along with Marc Artigau, he directed and coordinated the cycle of emerging companies Aixopluc in the Espai Lliure. In the 2011/12 season at the Teatre Lliure he was responsible for the cycle Cartes Lliures, taking on the coordination, direction and dramaturgy of the eight sessions. In 2010, also at the Teatre Lliure, he directed and was responsible for the dramaturgy of the poetry show Només uns versos. In 2009 he directed Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, a production of La Perla 29 at the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya. In 2006, in his first collaboration with the Teatre Lliure, he directed Davant de l’Home: Thomas Bernhard, by Esteve Soler. He has also participated in many forums and debate tables on the arts sector. He has set up several institutional events, recitals and openings for different companies and institutions, and has been scriptwriter, guitarist and vocalist in several bands.
Jordi Casanovas (Vilafranca del Penedès, 1978) is a playwright and theatre director. He has written around forty texts, including Mala broma (Sala Muntaner, 2018), Port Arthur (Festival Grec, 2016), Idiota (Sala Muntaner, 2015), Vilafranca (Teatres amics / Teatre Lliure, 2015), Ruz-Bárcenas (Teatro del Barrio, 2014), Una història catalana (TNC, June 2011/2013), Pàtria (Teatre Lliure, 2012), Un home amb ulleres de pasta (Sala Flyhard, 2010), Sopar amb batalla (Versus Teatre, 2010), La Revolució (La Villarroel, 2009), Lena Woyzeck (Temporada Alta, 2008), La Ruïna (La Villarroel, 2008), City/Simcity (Sala Beckett / Club Capitol, 2007), and Wolfenstein (AREAtangent / Versus Teatre, 2006).
He has received the Ciutat de València Award for Estralls, the Ciutat d’Alcoi Award 2005 for Beckenbauer, the Marqués de Bradomín Award 2005 for Andorra and the Josep Robrenyo Award 2002 for Les millors ocasions. The trilogy comprising Wolfenstein, Tetris and City/Simcity received the Crítica de Barcelona Award for the new play of the 2006-07 season, the Crítica Serra d’Or Award for the best play 2006 and nominations for the Butaca Awards and the Max Awards. Butaca Award for the best play of 2009 for La Revolució. Time Out Award for the best play of 2011 for Un home amb ulleres de pasta. Butaca Award for the best play 2011 for Una Història Catalana. Ciutat de Barcelona Theatre Award 2012 for Pàtria. Butaca Award for the best play of 2015 for Vilafranca.
Claudia Faci is a dancer, choreographer, actress, director, teacher and independent creator.
Trained as a dancer and actress, she has worked in all kinds of dance and theatre productions.
In 2006 she premiered Nur Für Dich at the Madrid en Danza festival. Since then her activity has focused on creation with the aim of offering work based on her experience in the field of dance, theatre performance and literature: Agnès (2008); À.n.a. (Escena Contemporánea, 2009); Qué sería de mi en una noche como esta si no fuera por ti (La noche en Blanco); Trilogía del Desastre, composed by PLOT, Esto es lo que hay and El título lo pones tÚ (2010-11); Einfach so (2011); Construyo sobre el olvido (2012); A-creedores (Temporada Alta 2014 – Festival de Otoño 2015); Vida Laboral (Festival Idem 2015 – T. Rosalía de Castro 2016 – Festival Grec 2018); Valientes, in collaboration with the group Terrorismo de Autor (2017); Estoy pensando en tortugas (Naves Matadero Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas, 2018).
In 2017 and 2018 respectively, she participated as an actress in two productions of the Centro Dramático Nacional (CDN): Bodas de sangre, by Federico García Lorca, directed by Pablo Messiez, and Un idioma propio, by Minke Wang, directed by Víctor Velasco.
She regularly holds performing creation workshops in several training centres as well as in theatres, festivals and other contexts.
Born in 1957, Alfons Flores began his professional career as set designer in 1978, in the GAT group based in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), of which he was co-founder. His work embraces set designs for theatre, operas and major events, in which he has worked with directors such as Calixto Bieito, Josep Lluís Bozzo, Carlos Wagner, Joan Anton Rechi, Guy Joosten and Àlex Ollé and Carlus Padrissa from the company La Fura dels Baus.
His theatre activity has enabled him to premiere productions in theatres and festivals such as the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, Festival de Teatro Clásico de Mérida, Festspillene i Bergen, and in the Deutsches N. Theater S. Weimar, including La casa de Bernarda Alba (1998), Bodas de sangre (2001), La Celestina (2004), Peer Gynt (2006), Los Persas, La casa dels cors trencats (2009), Afinidades electivas (2011), Flames a la fosca (2013) and Sol/Ensam (2015), among others.
His opera works have taken him to premiere in theatres such as the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real, English National Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Covent Garden in London, Komische Oper, La Monnaie, Sydney Opera House, Theater Basel, Opéra de Lyon, Oper Frankfurt, Staats Oper Stuttgart, De Nederlandse Opera and Opéra de Paris, among others. Among his most notable set designs it is worth noting Carmen (1999 and 2011), Un Ballo in Maschera (2000, 2010 and 2013), Don Giovanni and Die Fledermaus (2002), Manon (2003), Wozzeck (2005 and 2009), La Fanciulla del West (2007), Le Grand Macabre (2009), Mahagonny and Adriana Lecouvreur (2010), Król Roger, Quartett, Tristan & Isolde and Oedipe (2011), Le Duc d’Albe (2012), Erwartung / Il prigioniero (2013), Madama Butterfly, Daphne and The Flying Dutchman (2014), L’Elisir d’Amore, Pelléas et Mélisande and Il trovatore (2015), Don Carlo, Norma and La Bohème (2016), Alceste and Jeanne d’Arc (2017) or the recently premiered Turandot (2019).
His work has been recognised with the Crítica de Barcelona Award 1996, 1998 and 2009. In 2000 he received the Irish Times Theatre Award for the best set design for Barbaric Comedies and has been nominated in the category of best designer in the International Opera Awards 2017.
Raimon Molins. Degree in Philology from Barcelona University and scholarship from La Sorbonne in Paris. He studied acting at the Col·legi del Teatre in Barcelona, in Paris with Pascal Decolland (CNSAD), Jean-Paul Wenzel and Françoise Bette (TNB), and in London with the Heightened Reality company. Meanwhile he studied music and violin at the Barcelona Higher School of Music and in Paris.
As an actor he began working at the Teatre Lliure with Josep M. Mestres, Lluís Homar, Lluís Pasqual, Txiki Berraondo and Ferran Carvajal; and at the TNC with Carme Portaceli, Franco di Francescantonio and Josep M. Mestres. In the private theatre he has worked in the Teatre Borràs, Teatre Principal, Teatre Romea and Sala Atrium, among others. He has directed plays by Sartre, Shakespeare, Chekov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Kwahulé, Mouawad, Mayorga and Sinisterra at the TNC, Teatre Romea, Sala Atrium and Teatro Fernán Gómez, among others. He is founder and artistic director of the Sala Atrium in Barcelona and of the company Atrium. In the field of teaching he has given courses on research techniques and workshops since 2001 at the Col·legi del Teatre, Estudis de Teatre and Atrium Estudi. Since 2013 he has been professor at the Institut del Teatre, where he teaches courses on acting techniques, directing actors and staging practical work. He has been professor at the Scuola Europea per l'arte dell'attore. Currently he is the head of the speciality of Performance at the Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic (ESAD) of the Institut del Teatre.
Teresa Vilardell is a director, scriptwriter and professor. PhD in Performing Arts, she teaches at the Institut del Teatre and the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication Sciences.
She began in stage direction at the age of twenty-three when in our country productions directed by women were almost non-existent. She often works with non-dramatic texts and produces the dramaturgies she puts on stage: Llull a la Ciutat Nova, TNC; Solo by Strindberg, Teatre Akadèmia; Flames a la fosca, Espriu/Rosselló-Pòrcel, Festival Grec; La nit més freda, on the 1936 exile, TNC; Ensam by Strindberg, Festival Grec-TNC; and Informe Lugano, by Susan George and dramaturgy by Miquel Casamayor, among others.
In relation to literary dissemination, it is worth highlighting the soirees devoted to Strindberg at the Teatre Akadèmia. She has also written the preface to and selected, with Carolina Moreno, an anthology of plays and texts on theatre entitled Strindberg (Comanegra-Institut del Teatre, 2018).
With reference to the audiovisual field, it is worth noting her recent contribution to Verdaguer (TVE-TV3); the documentaries Temps de caritat, Docs Barcelona-Canal 33; Les ombres de Gaudí, Silver Medal at the New York Festival, and the feature film Nocturna (Venice Festival), among others. She has also participated in the scripts of many TV movies, series and television programmes.