Easy Reading (or not): Cristina Morales’s “Lectura fácil” on the Stage
There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan’s Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales’...
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 | 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’...
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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...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 1st Mar 2023 | Playwriting, Review, Spain
Juan Mayorga, one of Spain’s most decorated dramatists — a member of Spain’s Spanish Royal Academy...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2023 | Directing, Review, Spain
Florian Zeller’s The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 14th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, Design, Directing, Review, Spain
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 25th Dec 2020 | News, Spain
It’s December 22nd, not quite the night before Christmas but not far off, and the news has just...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 28th Apr 2020 | News, Spain, Theatre and Politics
There was a moment on April 7th when the vision for culture in Spain under Covid-19 looked pretty...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 17th Apr 2020 | News, Spain
In late March, as Spain experienced the effects of Coronavirus lockdown, publishing house uÑa RoTa...
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...
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