Alexandra Badea

Writing workshop

brut at Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna
Workshop in English
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Before the film screening of her play On the Other Side of the World, writer/director Alexandra Badea offers a writing workshop in English to all those interested in creative writing techniques. Automatic writing, direct, spontaneous writing; writing in waves or in fragments; fragmented, intimate, poetic, and political writing. The workshop will explore the topic of the dream: is it the ideal projection or just the nocturnal revealer of your fears and desires? Drawing on Georges Perec’s famous lists, it will help you create your own writing patterns, to start from yourself, from what touches and hurts you, to then open up towards a new and universal reality.

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Alexandra Badea – Writing workshop

Admission to the workshop is free of charge but limited to ten participants.

Please register via the ticket link.

Alexandra Badea is a writer, theatre director, and filmmaker. Born in Romania, Badea has been living and working in France since 2003 and, consequently, writes in French. She’s had ten plays and one novel published with Arche Editeur and translated into several European languages. Her plays have been produced in National Theatres in France and across Europe and a few have even been adapted for the radio. Her play Pulvérisés (Pulverised) was awarded with the Grand Prix de la littérature dramatique by the Theatre National Center in France and has been mounted in France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Austria, and Switzerland. As a director she’s staged a number of performances in theatres in both France and Romania and directed two short films. Alexandra has had several residencies in Japan, Congo, Russia, Germany, Canada and been awarded several grants for writing by the Theatre National Center, the Book National Center, the Ministry of Culture, and the region Île de France. In 2022, she presented a trilogy at the Paris National Theatre La Colline. Her writing addresses current affairs and the realities of the world. Her characters are human beings, persecutors and victims of a kind of modern slavery. Understanding the zeitgeist, she gracefully links intimacy, socialism, and politics and questions the different effects of globalisation, the media, and liberalism through restrained but strong language that depicts the modernity of our world.

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A co-production by brut Wien and the Romanian Cultural Institute of Vienna, realised as part of the EU project Be SpectACTive!, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.

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Dates & Tickets

October 2022

Sun. 16.10.2022, 15:00 - 17:00
Admission free / Please register via ticketlink.

brut at Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna
Argentinierstraße 39, 1040 Vienna

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