The power of education as a tool for emancipation and democratic thinking has been the subject of a few productions of late in Spanish theatre. To Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero’s El m…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21PMThe House of Bernarda Alba has engendered no shortage of spin-offs — dance and film adaptations like those of Eleo Pomare, Mats Ek and Mario Camus, as well works that pick up the piece’s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:12PMLa Cubana have been making theatre for over 45 years – stagings that have reimagined popular genres while contemplating the dynamics of putting on a show from the perspectives of those wor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:08PMEl día del Watusi (The Day of the Watusi) gets a second outing at the Teatre Lliure. First seen in the 2023/4 season at the Lliure’s Gràcia venue, it now plays in the larger Montjuïc Sa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:48PMHow do we learn to forgive, especially in the aftermath of a massacre that has no rational explanation? This is the subject of Diego Garrido Sanz’s Violencia (Violence), his adaptation of …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:42PMThere is no shortage of plays on the subject of mid-life crisis, from Alan Charles’ Midlife Crisis to Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista. Writer-director Pablo Remón has added to the mix with his…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:41PMThere are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:51AMIn the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Taija Helminen, Tanjalotta Räikkä and executive director Hanna Rosendahl) ref…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:30PMThe 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia Martín Ruiz, opened on 26 June and ran through to 4 August. 97 productions attracted 127,724 spectators for the 2025 …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:03PMThe first new production of Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year’s Grec festival. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:20AMPeter Sellars isn’t afraid of taking risks. It’s part of his approach to making work, as his 2024 production of Beatrice di Tenda showed. For this new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:05AMDavid Trueba’s films have often had a theatrical dimension. La silla de Fernando/ Fernando’s Chair, co-directed with Luis Alegre (2006), revolved a conversation with the legendary actor-…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:52AMHow to begin to approach a history of the Spanish Civil War for the stage? An ambitious prospect and one that Andrés Lima has set himself drawing on the team with whom he realised Shock 1. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:45AMGaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, first produced at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1835, like the Schiller play it draws on, demands two outstanding performers. It rises or falls on the q…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:45AMÀlex Rigola first staged David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona’s Teatre Lliure twenty-one years ago. It was an epic, fast-moving staging realised in a gyrating fishbowl set, ch…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:58AMPeruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima’s Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet — seen at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival — through the eyes of actors with Down’s S…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:24PMTampere is Finland’s third largest city— parallels are often drawn with Manchester, in part because of its shared industrial history, and also because of the frequency of rain! It is per…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:47PMIn my humble view, Tiago Rodrigues is one of the most important theatre makers at work today. His is a theatre that asks profound questions about what we value and why, and what we are pre…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:44PMLa Zaranda are one of Spain’s best kept theatrical secrets. Not because they are not well known or respected in Spain – they have a cult reputation in the Spanish-speaking world with a…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:36PMNuria Espert turns 89 today. Hers has been an extraordinary career and it’s not over yet. She has just spent over 13 months on tour with La isla del aire/The island of the air, a new play …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:00AMJuan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How f…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:21AMSeeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn’t always sensible. Will it be as good as you remember it? I saw Jauría, Jordi Casanovas’ verbatim play based on the ca…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:07AMThere are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (1959), adapted from Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play, and Arnol…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:36AMThe 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only a few months before his death, as Spain was edging closer to civic conflict. Its razor-sha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:33AMSusanne Kennedy doesn’t do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own rules, its own ethos. It’s not a world of participation but one where the audience are …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34PMVincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently performed works, Norma (1831) and I puritani (1835) – the latter his eleventh and final opera…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:23AMAlberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have lain in the margins, side-lined or erased. He has a remarkable capacity to address that which…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:57AMShakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest of tragedies into opera: Berlioz, Britten, Verdi were all at some point approached about an ope…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:54AMThere is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático Nacional at Madrid’s Valle-Inclán theatre. Misericordia (Mercy) is about how we look back a…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:11AMSantiago a Mil is an annual theatre and performing arts festival held in the Chilean capital in summer. Since 1994 it has been welcoming audiences to its programme of activities across the c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:10AMCatching up with Guillermo Calderón’s Villa at Santiago a Mil after almost 12 years has been a treat. This is not because it presents easy or pleasurable subject matter but rather because…
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