DAY OF DEBATE: 'I am contemporary!' Strindberg and Today’s Theatre . 9 October 2019 at the Institut del Teatre

The event will be attended by Jean-Pierre Sarrazac, Strindberg theatre scholar, who has recently published his fine study Strindberg, L'Impersonnel, and Jonathan Châtel, who three years ago presented his acclaimed adaptation of The Road to Damascus at the Festival d’Avignon. Another participant will be Anna Pettersson, director of the revived Strindbergs Intima Teater in Stockholm, whose challenge today is to reread, reinterpret and perform the playwright’s plays again. We can discover the outcome of the work of Imma Merino on Strindberg’s influence on Ingmar Bergman and the art of cinema; of Teresa Rosell, with a lecture focused on The Ghost Sonata as a groundbreaking play and precursor to new contemporary playwriting; and of Carolina Moreno, a benchmark in the translation of Strindberg’s work into Catalan.

Moreover, in the roundtable “Staging Strindberg”, the stage directors Teresa Vilardell and Claudia Faci, the directors Pau Carrió, Jordi Casanovas and Raimon Molins, and the set designer Alfons Flores, will share their experience in staging Strindberg’s plays.

In the framework of the event there will be a dramatised reading (directed by Teresa Vilardell) of the Memorandum to the Members of the Intima Teater, based on the text written by Strindberg in 1908 and the correspondence between the playwright and his colleague and disciple August Falck.

More info and programme of the Day of Debate here.