What happens when a novel becomes a play? When a painting becomes a film? When a song is reimagined as a scene?

This course explores the art of transposition—not merely adapting a story, but translating its inner life into a new form. Participants will investigate how texts—literary, musical, visual, or conceptual—can be reimagined for the stage or screen. The adaptation may be loose, inspired only by a mood or a motif, or it may closely follow the original. What matters is not fidelity, but transformation.

The guiding questions: What does theatre or film offer that the page alone cannot? Or if you’re a writer, this course will teach you how to transpose your novel or short story into script or theatre play. 

The course is conducted exclusively in English. All teaching and writing activities will be delivered live in this language via video conference. To participate, you need an internet-connected device, preferably a personal computer, equipped with a microphone and camera. All times are indicated in Central European Time (CET).

These sessions are designed to be a blend of theoretical exploration and practical «lab» work. We will use the methodology of a professional Writer’s Room, where the group acts as a creative sounding board. This approach ensures that listening and giving feedback become as essential to your practice as the writing itself.

The classes are both theoretical and practical; therefore, students are advised to take notes if they wish to retain the concepts explained and analyzed by the instructor. You will work on real-world exercises, transposing texts in real-time and discussing the results with your peers to foster a collaborative and professional creative environment.

Weeks 1 – 8: Foundations & Exploration

• Introduction to theories of adaptation and transposition
• Study of adapted works (film, theatre, hybrid forms) and their sources
• Discussions on embodiment, temporality, visual language, silence, and space
• Each participant will bring three different source texts—these can be novels, poems, songs, visual artworks, theoretical texts, archives, or anything that can be «read» as a text
• Through group discussion and guided analysis, we will explore which of the three sources holds the strongest potential for adaptation—and why
• Weekly writing prompts and creative exercises to test approaches to each material
• Development of critical thinking around form, medium, and dramaturgical possibility
• Emphasis on listening to the material: what does it want to become?

Weeks 9 -16: Creation & Collective Work

• Participants develop their own adaptation projects based on their chosen source
• Workshop format: peer feedback, dramaturgical conversations, collaborative insight
• Each writer creates a full dramatic work (play, screenplay, or hybrid text)
• Group sessions foster a laboratory-like environment: listening, challenging, supporting
• Emphasis on individual voice and interpretation, within a shared creative context

• Monthly Payment: 150 €
• Single Payment: 590 € 

You can pay for the course online using a credit or debit card via our secure payment platform. If your bank account is Spanish, we accept payments via transfer, bank deposit, or direct debit. We also accept payments through PayPal (with a surcharge). 

• Every Tuesday, 19.00 to 21.oo (CET)
• First class: 07/04/2026
• Register here
• Form in Spanish

Filip Grujić is a writer and playwright, assistant at the Department of Theatre Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He gave his lectures at Sorbonne University in Paris and UDG University in Podgorica. He received the Mihiz Award for playwriting in 2020.

His feature-length documentary film «Yugo Goes to America», which he wrote and directed, is currently in postproduction. Film was supported by Eurimages and won best pitch award at Fipadoc Festival in Biarritz, France.