Digital Workshop med Dalia Taha

Please note! This is a digital event.

Why do we continue to write despite pain, violence, censorship and despair? The workshop invites participants to examine the pressure, necessity or drive that underlies their own writing. What is your «despite»? Where do you write from?

Through conversations, writing exercises and shared reading the workshop seeks to locate this place and develop texts that carry its power. Together the participants and Taha will read plays that grapple with political and ethical questions, among them VILLA by Guillermo Calderón, HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX by Adrienne Kennedy and FAR AWAY by Caryl Churchill.

Dalia Taha (b. 1986) is a poet and playwright. She has published three poetry collections in Arabic, among them ENTER WORLD (2025) which was recently published in English by Graywolf Press in translation by Sara Elkamel. Taha's dramatic works have been performed at among others the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels. Among her best known plays are FIREWORKS (2015), KEFFIYEH / MADE IN CHINA (2012), THERE IS NO ONE BETWEEN YOU AND ME (2016) and HUNGER: A MUSICAL (2018). Taha holds an MFA in playwriting from Brown University and has received the Solidarity Prize from Norsk Dramatikerforbund and the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship. She teaches at Birzeit University and lives in Ramallah, Palestine.

The workshop is open to writers from various parts of the performing arts, literature and art fields. The workshop is held in English and is organised by Cornerstone in collaboration with Tekstallianse.

The masterclass is limited to 20 places.

First come first served!