Sobre Carlos Be

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Carlos Be (Vilanova i la Geltrú - 1974) es autor y director de teatro. Entre otras obras, ha publicado Exhumación (2012), Forbína (2011), El niño herido (2011), La caja Pilcik (Premio Serantes de Teatro 2008), Llueven vacas (2008), Achicorias (2008), Origami (Premio Born de Teatro 2006), Amén (2006), La extraordinaria muerte de Ulrike M. (finalista del Premio Casa de América - Festival Escena Contemporánea de Dramaturgia Innovadora 2005) y Noel Road 25: a genius like us (Premio Caja España de Teatro 2001). Sus obras se han estrenado en Chequia, España, Italia, Panamá y Venezuela.

Como director de The Zombie Company, ha llevado a escena Peceras, Exhumación (Mejor Espectáculo del VII Indifestival de Teatro y Danza Independiente de Santander 2012), My favorite things, Torniquet, Achicorias y Eloísa y el domador de mariposas. Asimismo, ha sido director invitado del Teatro Ungelt de Praga con ocasión del estreno absoluto de Origami. Como docente, ha impartido clases en la Sala Beckett de Barcelona y el Café del Cosaco de Madrid, y ha sido profesor invitado en la Universidad Carolina de Praga y en la Universidad de Bohemia del Sur de České Budějovice.

Es colaborador mensual de la revista Artez. Vive entre Chequia y España.

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Carlos Be is one of Spain’s most prolific contemporary writers. Born in Barcelona in 1974, he began a career in medicine, but then abandoned his studies to concentrate on theatre. He is a director as well as a playwright, most notably for the Zombie Theatre Company, with whom he produced Noel Road 25 in 2005. Carlos Be has won a number of awards for his work, including the Caja España Theatre Prize in 2001 for Noel Road 25 and the Born Theatre Prize in 2006 for Origami. Be often collaborates with theatre companies and directors abroad to stage his work internationally; for example, the first production of his award-winning play Origami took place in Prague. Similarly, Amén was first staged as a full production in Venezuela. Be is a regular contributor to the online scenic arts magazine Artezblai.

Carlos Be’s plays typically explore issues such as abuses of power, religious hypocrisy and flawed human relationships. A number of his plays focus on homosexual characters, dramatising conflicts these characters have with one another or with the repressive society in which they live. The relationships between his characters are often very troubled, defined by cruelty, power struggles and indifference. (written by Gwynneth Dowling - Out of the Wings)