“María Isabel” at Santiago a Mil: Staging Political Agency
How does one “write” a life for the stage? This question lies at the heart of Ana Luz...
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), A Companion To Latin American Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and Staging Difficult Pasts: Memory, Theatre and Museums (Routledge, 2024). 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 | 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, Theatre and AI
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...
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 | 8th Apr 2020 | News, Worldwide
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...
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