Juan Mayorga: A View from Madrid
In late March, as Spain experienced the effects of Coronavirus lockdown, publishing house uÑa RoTa...
Read MoreMaria Delgado is an academic, curator, and critic. Professor and Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) 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 | 17th Apr 2020 | News, Spain
In late March, as Spain experienced the effects of Coronavirus lockdown, publishing house uÑa RoTa...
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The Theatre Times OITF: The International Online Theatre Festival runs from 15 April to 15 May....
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 2nd Apr 2020 | Chicago, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
Tracy Letts’s Bug may be fourteen years old, but this tale of a couple convinced that they are...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 11th Mar 2020 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Politics
Guillem Clua has produced a varied body of work for the Catalan theatre. His plays sometimes have...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 14th Dec 2019 | Argentina, Review, Theatre and Politics
Alfredo Arias has been based in France for many decades now, but he is an increasingly frequent...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 13th Dec 2019 | Argentina, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, South America, Theatre and Disability
A performance for teenage schoolchildren of Diego Casado Rubio’s Millones de Segundos (English...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 7th Dec 2019 | Argentina, Review
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 6th Dec 2019 | Argentina, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
In 2013 Ignacio Bartolone created a buzz with his first play, Piedra sentada, Pata corrida...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 30th Nov 2019 | Argentina, Review, Spain
Romina Paula is perhaps best known outside Argentina for her work as an actress in seminal films...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 27th Nov 2019 | Argentina, Review, Theatre and Gender
For many in the English-speaking world, the company Piel de Lava is known primarily for its work...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 10th Oct 2019 | Review, Spain, Translation, United Kingdom
Federico García Lorca’s rural trilogy, written in the period between 1932 and 1936 as social...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 23rd Sep 2019 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender
Lucas Hnath takes a “what if” scenario as the central conceit of his sequel to Ibsen’s A Doll’s...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 26th Jul 2019 | Review, Spain
Buenos Aires director Claudio Tolcachir has good reason to call Madrid his second home. His Timbre...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 23rd Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Review, Spain
It has been a decade since Miguel del Arco—now one of Spain’s most admired directors— burst onto...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 19th May 2019 | Review, Spain
La Cubana—one of Spain’s most important theatre companies—are back. They may have intimated back...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 27th Apr 2019 | Review, Spain
El chico de la última fila (English title The Boy at the Back) is one of Juan Mayorga’s most...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 25th Apr 2019 | Review, Spain
Miguel Delibes wrote his novella Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris (English title Woman In Red...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 21st Apr 2019 | Review, Spain
Federico García Lorca, Spain’s best-known twentieth-century dramatist and poet, has been conjured...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 18th Apr 2019 | Review, Spain
José María Pou is an actor who knows how to hold an audience and his star turn in Moby Dick is a...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 12th Apr 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Spain
Presented as a double bill alongside Jauría (English title Pack) at Madrid’s El Pavón Teatro...
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