Happy Birthday Nuria Espert: “a Great Actor And a Force of Nature”
Nuria Espert turns 89 today. Hers has been an extraordinary career and it’s not over yet. She has...
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Anything Can Be Bought If The Price Is Right: Juan Mayorga’s “La Colección” (The Collection)
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing...
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Staging Justice: Miguel del Arco revisits Jordi Casanovas’ “Jauría” and the case of “la manada” (the wolfpack)
Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn’t always sensible. Will it be...
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A Triple Bill on Desire and its Discontents: “La Voix Humaine”, “Erwartung” and Something in Between at Madrid’s Teatro Real
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together...
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Alfredo Sanzol Stages Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”: Simmering Passions, Solitude and Surveillance
The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only...
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“ANGELA (a Strange Loop)”: The Wild and Wonderful World of Susanne Kennedy
Susanne Kennedy doesn’t do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own...
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Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny
Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...
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Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins
Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...
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Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid
Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...
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“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile
There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático...
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“El Lector Por Horas/Reader By The Hours.” A Successful Spanish Play That Also Deserves To Be A Global Hit
Sanchis Sinisterra is a Spanish playwright with a long career and many successes who is in the...
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Miguel del Arco’s “Rigoletto” at Madrid’s Teatro Real: In-Yer-Face Opera for In-Yer-Face Times
I am going to be honest. I didn’t see Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Real. I had wanted and planned to...
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The Opening of Barcelona’s Newest Theatre: Àlex Rigola Stages Thomas Bernhard’s “L’home De Teatre”
The relationship between theatre and life has been pervaded the work of dramatists from...
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“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain
There is nothing like going to a world premiere. Being one of the first to see something brand...
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Coronada and the Bull Return to the Stage
Francisco Nieva (1924-2016) ranks amongst the most respected Spanish playwrights of the second...
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“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse
It is not an easy prospect to adapt into opera one of the most acclaimed social realist novels of...
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The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero
There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...
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Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid
Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...
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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’...
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The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air)...
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