PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
THE HIDDEN GAZE OF THE HEROES
(Dramatic Writing for Young Audiences)
By Maribel Carrasco
Although nothing will scare them away
we can be heroes
just for one day…”
Excerpt from “Heroes” by David Bowie
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Talking about young audiences is exciting but, above all, very complex, since the world that we have inherited for the new generations is not entirely friendly, much less safe. This is a world in which growing up and being is often extremely difficult. A troubled world where the most exultant joy and the most devastating confusion coexist intensely. A reality that is at the same time possibility, aspiration and fall; belonging and marginalization; life and death; innocence and loss
Creating and writing stories based on this complex imaginary also presents us with a crossroads, an enigma and a mystery that sometimes scares us, a blurred territory in which it is often difficult for us to find the right tone, modulation and volume to achieve a balanced dialogue without trying to give life or moral lessons, with spectators who are in no way the same as the spectators we once were, not only because we have already left childhood and adolescence behind a long time ago, but also because this is an audience that is constantly changing, an audience that is no longer amazed by anything because it is capable of creating its own content with the power of a single click, as well as accessing impressive virtual worlds and an indiscriminate amount of information, through which it constantly acquires signifiers, referents and aesthetic codes very different from our own.
That's why analyzing our writing process and our connection with our audience is fundamental, especially to reconsider the possibility of creating our own poetics and writing stories and archetypal universes that stem from languages, concerns, and questions that are close to today's young audiences. A theatrical writing that offers the wonderful opportunity to discover the existence of a world much deeper and truer than the real world; a writing capable of awakening unprecedented reactions; that moves and moves, that provokes action, questions, and questions; a writing of perplexity and wonder, that opens infinite landscapes to dialogue and the encounter with oneself and with others.
SYLLABUS
- THE WORLD OF HEROES:
Towards a poetics of childhood and adolescence.
- WORDS AND MYTHS:
The impossibility of covering the sun with a finger.
- ADULT WORLD VERSUS YOUNG WORLD?
Encounter with the other.
- ME, YOU, SHE, HE, WE
Taboo and censorship in playwriting for young audiences.
- GIRLS AND BOYS CRY WHEN DAISIES FALL:
Move and be moved. The power of emotions.
- THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT I FOUND THERE
The topics.
- SECRETS THAT ARE NOT SECRETS:
See where no one sees, the power of the invisible.
- HAVE THE SEA INSIDE:
The metaphors.
- STORIES THAT ARE PUT TOGETHER LIKE A PUZZLE:
The original idea.
