“Play & Breakfast” is focusing its fifth workshop on the creative universe of Chris Goode. A writer, director, performer and musician, Chris’s diverse body of work has been seen in venues ranging from Sydney Opera House and Tate Modern to the most marginal spaces on the London fringe. He has won four Fringe First Awards for his works Men in the Cities, Monkey Bars, Kiss of Life and Neutrino as well as the Headlong/Gate New Directions Award for his radical version of Chekhov, ...SISTERS, at the Gate Theatre. His acclaimed adaptation for the stage of Derek Jarman’s iconic film Jubilee on occasion of its 40th anniversary presented it in the context of the social and political turmoil of 2017.
He is the lead artist of Chris Goode & Company, an award-winning theatre and performance company creating hospitable spaces for radical encounters and revelatory conversations. In an increasingly fraught political atmosphere, the company has a particular commitment to LGBTQ+ artists and audiences, and to under-heard communities across the UK and further afield.
Workshop dates: 10, 17 & 24th February. Deadline to apply: 4th February 2020. Information on how to apply here
“Play & Breakfast” is a season of workshops providing performing arts professionals and theatre enthusiasts in Spain with an exclusive opportunity to learn about the latest trends in British drama with direct face-to-face input from some of the UK’s top playwrights. The programme is organised by the production companies Bella Batalla and Esto Podría Ser, in partnership with the Teatro de la Abadía and in collaboration with the British Council / New UK Drama.
Each month the focus is on a British writer who is making a significant impact on British theatre. The first three sessions of the workshop centre on their works from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The fourth and final session is attended by the writer him/herself, making his/her own personal and unique contribution to the work undertaken during the workshop by the participants. The workshop closes with a staged reading in Spanish by professional actors of extracts from a selection of the writer’s plays in Spanish, followed by a Q&A with the playwright moderated and translated by Nacho Aldeguer y Luis Sorolla (open to the public).
The first part of the 2019/2020 season of “Play & Breakfast” has focused on the dramatists Bola Agbaje, Terry Johnson, Ella Hickson and Rory Mullarkey.
Coming soon: Alexi Kaye Campbell, Lucy Prebble and Patrick Marber.