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This page has been created to host the resources shared or used by Beatriz Cabur during her Digital Theatre Workshop. This Digital Theatre Workshop has been taught onsite at the University of London, at the RESAD Madrid and several times online for audiences and students anywhere in the world.
If you want to book Beatriz to teach this workshop click here.
In 2012 I was closely connected to a group called The Internationalists, they held a playwriting contest in which the prize was getting either a reading or a production of your play in five different countries. In that year, the winner was The Hummingbirds, by Garret Jon Groenveld. I got to direct it in Spain.
Read the annoucement we did about it here, have a look at the gorgeous poster we had for it here, read about the presentation here, and about the second run here.
It was a lovely experience, specially because Garret came all the way from San Francisco to see it. He slept through it because he was terribly jet lagged but I took him out to party and here we are. Almost ten years later, still admiring each other’s work, still caring about each other.
(He didn’t really slept through the whole thing, I was adding a bit of drama to this post. Read the review he wrote about the show here.)
Garret Jon Groenveld is one of the best playwrights out there right now. His texts have this particular quality that makes you realise you are in the presence of greatness.
So after all these years, he called me again to direct a reading of his latest play and we did “Sacrifice: A Clytemnestra Story” on Sunday 7 November at 7:00PM, at The Cockpit Theatre in London.
Sacrifice – A Clytemnestra Story by Garret Jon Groenveld
The classical Greek story through her eyes: A Queen is often asked to give up what she wants – for her country, for her sister, for her husband – when it comes to her daughter – what will she do?
Denise Pitter, Clytemnestra
Esther Tan, Iphigenia
Garret Groenveld, playwright
Beatriz Cabur, director
Video Credits from the show
Denise Pitter as Clytemnestra and Esther Tan as Iphigenia in a still from the show
Denise Pitter and Esther Tan in rehearsals
Denise Pitter and Esther Tan in rehearsals
This work has been commissioned by Procreate Project
with public funding from Arts Council England
written and directed by Beatriz Cabur
with Emma Bakare
Childbirth-19 is a new digital theatre play specifically written to be performed online. The play depicts childbirth in times of Covid-19 and tackles how the experience of pregnancy and labour is shaped by systemic trauma, as due to coronavirus, childbirth interventions and mistreatments have increased, disregarding women’s needs and rights.
Major traumas and long lasting damages have been inflicted in the name of minor risk prevention, leaving women without birth partners, not allowing home births, having midwifery led units, ultimately not giving choices to women on where and how to give birth and separating babies from their parents right after birth.
The play is also informed by conversations with childbirth professionals and birthworkers. By collecting the stories of women who have assisted women in labour or work in defending their rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, Childbirth-19 will also reflect their experiences and amplify their voices.
Proudly Supported by Birthrights.
Beatriz Cabur directed two different Rapid Productions of “STUPID PEOPLE” by Daniela Fejerman at the Cervantes Theatre in London in October, 2019.
The original Spanish text was performed by Sofía Monreal, Jorge Lucas and Santiago Cabrero, on Friday 11th October 2019 at 7.30pm
The English version, translated by Hayley O’Kell and María Bastianes, was performed by Nicola Peluso, Robert Bradley and George Williams on Saturday 12th October 2019 at 7.30pm.
Sorcha Corcoran was the costume designer, Ignacio Leache the stage manager and Marcus Roche the production manager, all of them, alongside Puerto Baker, Paula Paz, Jorge de Juan and the rest of the staff at the Cervantes Theatre created the best possible environment to work, each and every single one of them showing a level professionalism that’s not easy to find.
What a blast!
STUPID PEOPLE: Two brothers who argue as to who should care for their lonely mother, a couple who sleep together again after a year of separation, a pregnant policewoman, a British father who aims to pick up his son on his birthday, a desperate man who assaults an off-roader driven by a local dignitary. This is a comedy about stupidity, which knows no economic or social barriers. For there are stupid people in all societies, throughout all ages of all sexes, religions and races. But do we stop to think about this ?
What is a Rapid Production? A Rapid Production is the complete play performed by actors with full movement, staging, music and lighting but with script in hand. The Cervantes Theatre pioneered this sort of production when they noticed that when they watched the play they quickly ‘forgot’ that the actors were reading. Rapid Productions are much more cost effective to put on because rehearsal time is significantly reduced so, for the Cervantes Theatre they have become a way of making top class theatre available at a really low price.
STUPID PEOPLE was performed at the Cervantes Theatre, 229 Union St, London SE1 0LR
READ THE WHOLE PLAY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE BELOW
WATCH THE #LIVE RECORDING clicking on the video below.
Carolina Lapausa as CARLOTA FITZ-PATRICK DE LA VEGA
Sara Moros as ISABEL DE LA VEGA
Sandra Dominique as LUISA LÓPEZ LAMAS
Laura Aparicio as MARÍA MACÍAS MARCO
Laura Madera as SARA SWARTZ
Assitant Director: Laura Madera
Stage Manager: Eugenia Peral
Playwright and Director: Beatriz Cabur
Our host for the night, and vicepresident of the League of Professional Theatre Women – spanish Division (LMPT) Belén Santa Olalla rocked the stage!
The LPTW-Spain is still directed by Beatriz Cabur, Yolanda Dorado and Conchita Piña but after Inge Martín San Juan had to step out of her role, Belén Santa-Olalla took over and is doing the best possible job. Still four amazing professional theatre women working to make change happen!
I am pleased to share with you that I am now in Austria directing CARTHAGE, a play by Caridad Svich.
I am working here with an incredible team composed by Signdance Collective, the Dead Days Beyond Help, Lila Transmitter and HenryH.
A first approach to CARTHAGE will be performed on September 13th 2013 at 4 pm in GRAZ, & September 14th 2013 at 4 pm in THE CASTLE of LIGIST.
THE PLANE is a theatre play specifically written to be performed through telepresence combining six different screens. There are five different teams of Actors and/or Stage Managers located in New York, London, Madrid, Barcelona and Milan from which we will stream both live and recorded video of different scenes of the play but from the audience’s point of view it will look like they are all passengers in the same flight.
You have a second chance to go see the Spanish staging of “The Hummingbirds”!
NITE is proud to present “InterTeatro” – a project by Beatriz Cabur and the Cervantes Institute of Milan with the objective of internationally promoting contemporary Spanish drama. InterTeatro is a new form of theatre that, through the use of technology, combines traditional methods with new forms of communication.
The plays that make up InterTeatro are a combination of different formats:
– A live, online broadcast of actors who are performing in another city.
– A pre-recorded video.
– A live performance on stage.
For the first edition of InterTeatro, eight texts were selected from four authors from different generations that represent a wide panorama of styles and ways of understanding the process and purpose of playwriting. The plays are:
THE COLLECTORS by Ignacio García May
R.I.P.me by Íñigo Ramírez de Haro
BLACK AGAINST WHITE by Íñigo Ramírez de Haro
HUMANITY IS UGLY by Íñigo Ramírez de Haro
WITHOUT A MOTIVE by Pablo Iglesias Simón
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Pablo Iglesias Simón
RONENSBOURGH by Beatriz Cabur
THE CHEF by Beatriz Cabur
InterTeatro is a project comprised of 46 people. We would like to highlight the job of film director Alex Rios who works alongside Beatriz Cabur researching and experimenting multiple new combinations of media in order to create ground-breaking shows.
The first edition of InterTeatro was performed on February 21st, February 28th and March 7th at the theatre of the Cervantes Institute in Milan and it was a great success, the audience that came to the first shows on February 28th were back the other two days of performances and they loved the whole series!
The Chef is auditioning for an opportunity to have his own cooking show on TV. It is up to one audience member to decide whether he passes the test. The Chef must accomplish an impossible task: in less than ten minutes, he must make the audience member taste their favourite meal, all the while being in different cities.
Title: The Chef / Playwright and Director: Beatriz Cabur / Actor: Pablo Lagartos / Video Designer: Alex Ríos / Programme Manager: Mirko Grewing /
Another production of The Chef by Beatriz Cabur has been performed by Toma Danila and directed by Ana Margineanu in New York and Edinburgh.
Alice is a housewife who spends hours alone; cooking, cleaning, watching TV. Her husband works all day and when he can, escapes to the bar to watch football and drink. Two sides of the same reality, full of resentment, collide one day.
Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass / Original Title: Alicia frente al espejo / Playwright: Pablo Iglesias Simón / Director: Beatriz Cabur / Actors:Carmen Cuello / Video Designer: Alex Ríos / Assistant Directors: Isabel Morilla y Eva Aznar / Programme Management:Mirko Grewing / Italian premiere date: March 7th, 2013.
Crouched on the other side of the road, watching the scene, looking for the right time to carry out his plan. Nobody sees him, nobody notices him, but this situation will end soon because he has the power to give life or take it.
Title: Without a Motive / Original Title: Sin móvil aparente / Playwright: Pablo Iglesias Simón / Director: Beatriz Cabur / Actors: Pablo Lagartos /Video Designer: Alex Ríos / Assistant Directors: Isabel Morilla y Eva Aznar / Programme Management: Mirko Grewing / Italian premiere date: March 7th, 2013.
In 2013 I directed ‘Humanity is Ugly‘ (La humanidad es fea) by Íñigo Ramírez de Haro.
The Intensive Care Unit. A comedy about four people with terminal diseases discussing who will die first. What begins as a mournful dialogue about each of their illnesses gradually becomes a hilarious competition to be the first to die.
Title: Humanity is Ugly / Original Title: La humanidad es fea / Playwright: Íñigo Ramírez de Haro / Director: Beatriz Cabur / Actors: Maribel Lafuente, Rosa Aguerri, Marta Pérez-Arcos, Pilar Ramos y Carmen Muro. / Video Designer: Alex Ríos / Assistant Directors: Isabel Morilla y Carmen Muro / Programme Manager: Mirko Grewing / Technical Support: Fundación Dédalo, Mario Berdonces / Italian premiere date: March 7th, 2013.
Toñita is alone, facing her emptiness. A final step and her body will float in the air just for a moment before crashing to the ground. One small step and it will all end. Everything. She takes a breath, then releases it, as if this last exhalation was the preamble to her final release. When she is about to take the last step, someone grabs her by the arm. It is her mother. They talk about the reasons why Toñita does it and which of the two will jump first…
Title: RIPme / Original Title: RIPyo / Playwright: Íñigo Ramírez de Haro /Director: Beatriz Cabur / Actors: María José Doiz y Ariane Berrozpide /Video Designer: Alex Ríos / Assistant Directors: Isabel Morilla & Carmen Muro / Programme Management: Mirko Grewing / Italian premiere date: February 28th, 2013.