Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny
Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...
Read MoreMaria Delgado is an academic, curator, and critic. Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, she has published widely in the areas of Spanish-language theatre and film. Her books include "Other" Spanish Theatres (Manchester University Press, 2003, revised Spanish language edition published in 2017), Federico García Lorca (Routledge, 2008), and twelve co-edited volumes, including Contemporary European Theatre Directors (Routledge, 2011) and A Companion To Latin American Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). She writes for publications, including Sight & Sound and European Stages, and has appeared as a guest contributor on a range of BBC radio programs.
Posted by Maria Delgado | 27th Feb 2024 | France, Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera
Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...
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Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Chile, News, Santiago a Mil 2024
Santiago a Mil is an annual theatre and performing arts festival held in the Chilean capital in...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 24th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Catching up with Guillermo Calderón’s Villa at Santiago a Mil after almost 12 years has been a...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 23rd Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
El Brote (The Break) is the tale of an actor who doesn’t feel he’s had the career breaks his...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 20th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Piel de Lava have been making work for 20 years and it shows. Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa,...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 19th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Think of a film set where the audience gathered on the streets are not fully aware that they are...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 18th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
I read David Foster Wallace’s short story The Depressed Person soon after it was published in...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 17th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a broken mirror) has acquired a legendary status....
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 16th Jan 2024 | Chile, Festivals, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
How does one “write” a life for the stage? This question lies at the heart of Ana Luz...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 6th Jan 2024 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera
I am going to be honest. I didn’t see Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Real. I had wanted and planned to...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 21st Dec 2023 | Management, Review, Spain, Theatre and Politics
The relationship between theatre and life has been pervaded the work of dramatists from...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 30th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain
It is not an easy prospect to adapt into opera one of the most acclaimed social realist novels of...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 28th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain
There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 27th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain
Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 21st Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Spain, Theatre and Disability
There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan’s Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales’...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 18th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Spain
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air)...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 8th Mar 2023 | Education, Review, Spain, Theatre and Politics
Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that...
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