In Conversation with Pablo Remón
In this third meeting of "EStages. La escena
contemporánea de España y Latinoamérica" the scriptwriter, playwright and
director Pablo Remón will talk with researchers Duncan Wheeler and María
Bastianes about his career in theatre and its connection with film and
television.
This event has been organised by the Instituto Cervantes
Leeds-Manchester and International Writers at Leeds (University of Leeds),
within the framework of the EStages.UK project (Grant agreement: 797942), in
collaboration with the Performa group, and the Instituto del Teatro de Madrid
(UCM). Through the dialogue, we will learn more about Remón's way of
understanding his job, his way of approaching projects, where the inspiration
that lights the fuse of the creative process comes from, etc.
Pablo Remón Magaña was born in Madrid in 1977. He studied at
the Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid
(ECAM) and in 2009 he furthered his studies in New York. As a scriptwriter, he
has co-written the feature films Mundo Fantástico (Fantastic World, 2003),
Casual Day (2008), Cinco metros cuadrados (Five Square Meters, 2011), Perdido
(Lost, 2015), No sé decir adiós (I don't know how to say goodbye, 2016) and
Intemperie (Out in the Open, 2019). In 2013 he founded the theatre company La
Abducción, with which he wrote and directed La abducción de Luis Guzmán (The
Abduction of Luis Guzmán). His second play, Muladar (Midden), won the Lope de
Vega Theatre Award in 2014. The company premiered his third play, 40 años de
paz (40 Years of Peace), co-produced by the Community of Madrid's Autumn to
Spring Festival. In 2018, he presented Los mariachis and El tratamiento (The
Treatment).
Specialist in the history of European and Argentine theater
of the 20th century, María Bastianes is a talent research lecturer at the
Complutense University and a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds,
where she directs the European project "EStages.UK. Spanish Theatre in the
United Kingdom (1982–2019)", (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships).
In the past she has worked at Colby College (USA) and the Carlos III University
of Madrid. She has also carried out an Andreazza research project for the
Fondazione Cini in Venice (Italy, 2017).
Professor Duncan Wheeler, Professor of Spanish Studies and
Director of International Activities, with expertise in theatre, Hispanic and
European cinema, studied Spanish and Philosophy at Wadham College, University
of Oxford (2000-2004), where he continued his studies to complete his MA
(2004-2005) at St Catherine's College, followed by his PhD thesis (2005-2009)
at Wolfson College.
He rejoined the faculty as a lecturer in 2012
and was then promoted to full associate professor in 2013 and 2017, just as
Spanish entered its centenary at Leeds, a milestone that has been celebrated
with multiple events, including the University hosting the Annual Conference of
the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland in March 2018.