A free workshop for professional actors with international artist
Carlos García Estévez
ETHAL is organizing a free of charge workshop on Commedia dell’ arte, exclusively
for professional actors, with the international actor, stage director, theatre researcher
and specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’ arte and Mask Performance, Carlos
García Estévez.
The workshop will be held on Sunday 18 th May 2025, from 13:00-17:00 at ETHAL
Theatre in Limassol. The participation is free of charge and the participants should
wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Registration is required at 25877827. Maximum
number of participants 15 persons, a priority order will be followed.
Attached a short bio of the artist.
Carlos García Estévez is an international artist born in Spain. He is Artistic Director
of Manifesto Poetico, an actor, stage director, theatre researcher, pedagogue and
specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte and mask performance.
Manifesto Poetico comes from Carlos’ 25 years of research and productions done
internationally. He has also performed and directed in over 20 different countries and
over 45 different Universities. Over his career he has developed his research into
multi-style mis-en-scene, inter- disciplinary productions and devised theatre that is
contemporary. The success of his work and the enthusiastic response from the
audience comes from a reinvention of traditional- popular theatre. As he learned from
Dario Fo, Carlos keeps the spirit of popular theatre in order to create new
contemporary theatrical languages that speak to audiences today.
He directs shows, workshops, TransPoetico Productions and research projects in
Europe, North, South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Recent creations
directed by Carlos include Nama Kamu Atas Perahu (Kuala Lumpur, 2013), Tito’s
Dream (USA, 2014), Bogota In Action (Bogota, 2015), New York Lands (New York,
2016), Klassiek van de Toekomst (Haarlem, NL, 2017), Hann: Voices of a Bay
(Dakar, Senegal 2018), Pulse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018), The Gate of Hope
(Guadalajara, Mexico 2019), BELFAST 1919 (Belfast, NI 2019), In The Name Of
Humanity (Wiikwemkoong, Canada 2021) and If I Listened… (Wiikwemkoong,
Canada 2022).
Other artists with whom he worked include Donato Sartori, Yoshi Oida, Dario Fo,
Simon McBurney, Peter Sellars, Marcello Magni, Gennadi Bogdanov, Pierre Byland,
Eric de Bont, Kevin Crawford and Kaya Anderson (Roy Hart – Voice technique),
Mario Gonzáles (Theatre de Soleil), José Luís Gómez (Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid),
Tapa Sudana (Tribuana master and a former actor of Peter Brook’s company) and
Miquel A. Barceló.
He participates as a movement director for opera at DNO (Dutch National Opera
Academy) and Hollands Diep Muziektheater.
He trained with Jacques Lecoq for three years, both at his École Internationale de
Théâtre and at L.E.M. (Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement). He is regularly hosted
as a teacher at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris in the Laboratory for the Study of
Movement (L.E.M.) where he is an associate artist and co-contributor to the unique
research undertaken there.
Carlos directs, performs and teaches in English, French, Italian and Spanish.