The participants in the “Polluting Drama workshop. The Mediterranean” listened to a dramatised reading of some of the texts they have written these days at Faberllull, performed by students at the El Galliner theatre school in Girona.

This material is in the very early stages and, for the authors, this was the first time they have taken a step back from the work and heard how it sounds spoken by actors. The young actors at El Galliner got to perform the first drafts of these pieces about the Mediterranean, written in Catalan, Spanish, English, Arabic and German.

This week, nine playwrights from Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Morocco and Germany were at Faberllull Olot for a residency, writing about what can’t be voiced on each side of the Mediterranean, a premise that potentially encompasses topics like colonialism and post-colonialism, the crossroads of the three great monotheistic religions and the various cultures in fields such as alchemy, theology and science, and sea voyages for a whole range of social, political, ecological, emotional and mythical reasons. The event was promoted by Tantarantana Theatre in Barcelona.