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The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”

Posted 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)...

Plays from Egypt, Oman and Spain Scoop Most Awards at 11th Theatre Without Fund Festival

Posted by Ahram Online | 16th Sep 2021 | Egypt, Festivals, News

The festival took place in Alexandria between 22 and 26 August 2021. During the official closing...

The Personal is Political: Theatre as Therapy in Madrid

Posted by Duncan Wheeler | 14th Jun 2021 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender

The Spanish capital ranks amongst the European cities with the highest mortality rates for...

Surge Madrid 2020: The Nonstop Alternative Theatre Festival

Posted by Antonio Hernández Nieto | 9th Jan 2021 | Festivals, News, Spain

Surge Madrid is a performing arts festival that usually takes place in May. However, this year it...

#TeatroConfinado: Spanish Theater’s Answer to the Pandemic

Posted by Antonio Hernández Nieto | 2nd Jun 2020 | Covid-19, News, Spain, Theatre and Film

The COVID-19 pandemic has closed theaters around the world, including New York’s Broadway and...

Popular Theater in Buenos Aires

Posted by Kirsten McCleary | 11th Aug 2019 | Argentina, Essay, Theatre and Politics

The cliché phrase that Buenos Aires was the Paris of South America exemplifies the exaggerated...

Using Theatre To Promote Positive Mental Health

Posted by Mary Moynihan, Niamh Clowry, and Féilim James | 7th Mar 2019 | Ireland, News, Theatre and Disability

The link between creative expression and positive mental health has been known for quite some time...

Barcelona Meeting On Independent And Non-Institutionalised Theatres: A Short Report

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 4th Mar 2019 | News, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

It was a great success the first Barcelona Meeting on Independent and Non-Institutionalised...

Jo Clifford’s “Losing Venice” at The Orange Tree Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Oct 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, Review, Scotland, United Kingdom

English-born and Scottish-based playwright Jo Clifford has been an astonishingly energetic and...

The State Of Artistic Freedom 2018

Posted by Freemuse | 3rd Aug 2018 | News, Theatre and Politics

In a first-of-its-kind report assessing the global state of artistic freedom, Freemuse warns of...

‘Les Incorrigibles’: The Publishing House Championing Spanish Theatre in France

Posted by William Gregory | 16th Jan 2018 | France, News, Playwriting, Spain, Translation

Despite Spain being a near neighbor, Spanish theatre has enjoyed relatively little exposure in...

“La armonía del silencio” By Lola Blasco. When Little Red Riding Hood Set Fire To The Forest Of Memories

Posted by EfeJota Suárez | 30th Dec 2017 | Review, Spain

Silence. From the Latin “silentium”. The RAE (The Royal Spanish Academy) defines it as...

Transmedia Storytelling in the Performing Arts, a New Grammar to be Learned: An Interview with Belén Santa-Olalla

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 17th Jun 2017 | Immersive Theatre, Interview, Participatory Theatre, Spain, Transmedia

Belén Santa-Olalla has a BA in Media Practice and Theory from Sussex University, Brighton. She...

“La Sección”: Women Submission and Indoctrination. So Far, so Close

Posted by EfeJota Suárez | 3rd May 2017 | Spain, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics

La Sección recovers the figure of three women to draw a robot sketch of the submission, obedience...

“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...

“Fuenteovejuna” From Margin to Centerstage

Posted by Mara Valderrama | 28th Jan 2017 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender

TNT El Vacie is one of the most unique theatre companies in Spain. This group of Gypsy illiterate...

Contexto Teatral: New Online Archive for Spanish Contemporary Playwrights

Posted by Mara Valderrama | 18th Nov 2016 | News, Playwriting, Spain

A new space has been created to give visibility to contemporary playwrights in Spain and to make...

An Actor’s Future-Not Even Television Will Save Them

Posted by Manuel de Loren | 4th Sep 2016 | Acting, Essay

In Spain, as everywhere, working in your trade—and not any other area—is not easy for everyone. Only forty-six actors and actresses out of a hundred could find work between 2014 and 2016. And almost a third of the acting professionals live under the poverty threshold and almost two thirds move between meager and just decent earnings.