International Workshops and Residencies

Abstract

Claudia Pucci is a Brazilian playwright who first came into contact with the Royal Court in 2003. She was invited to take part in a workshop hosted by the Court in her home city of São Paulo. As a consequence of her participation and the play she eventually wrote, the following year she was invited to London to attend the theatre’s International Residency. Pucci has never had a play professionally produced at the Royal Court, but her work has received readings both in London and São Paulo; she continues to write plays, formerly as part of a playwrights’ group that was established partly as a consequence of the Royal Court’s first work in Brazil (see Chapter 5), and more recently on her own. She retains fond memories of her experience of working with the Royal Court in both São Paulo and London and refers to it as a defining moment in her career as a writer.¹