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Tribalism, Tragedy and Torment: Yaël Farber’s “Blood Wedding” at the Young Vic

Posted 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...

Lorca, Lopez, and Translating Desire: “Yerma” at the Huntington Theater Company

Posted by James Montaño | 19th Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Boston, Review, Spain, Translation, United States of America

Yerma, the titular character of Federico García Lorca’s play is terribly desperate. She...

“Medea” By Simon Stone, The New Stage Sensation

Posted by Antonio Hernández | 14th Feb 2019 | Adaptation, Review, Spain

Simon Stone is a stage director who began working in Australia and is currently working in Europe. His successful production of Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, was selected by The New York Times theatre critics as one of the best plays in New York in 2018. Medea, a Simon Stone collaboration with the prestigious Ivo Van […]

For Whom Technology Tolls

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 1st Jan 2019 | India, Review, Transmedia

For those of us that are perennially nostalgia bound—even for the sepia-tinted memories of the...

A Place To Be Seen: Global Queer Plays At The Arcola Theatre

Posted by William Gregory | 24th Mar 2018 | Festivals, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, News, Producing, Translation, United Kingdom

On March 3 and 4 2018, the Arcola Theatre in East London presented Global Queer Plays, a series of...

“The Butterfly’s Evil Spell” – Federico García Lorca’s First Premiere. From the Eslava Theatre to “Sala del Mariano”

Posted by Alfonso Vázquez | 28th Apr 2017 | Adaptation, Spain

Lorca’s first play contains beautiful verses. However, its characters, a group of insects did not...

Bilingual Conversations at the Cervantes Theatre: An Interview With Paula Paz

Posted by Aida Rocci | 16th Mar 2017 | Interview, London, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom

Interview with Paula Paz, Associate Director of the Cervantes Theatre, the new theatre with hopes of becoming a house of Spanish and Latin American theatre and culture in London.