Beasts (Las Brutas) / Siamese Twins (Los Siameses): London September 2011
Two Out of the Wings-derived plays will open in London in the next week and that showcase the work of two of Latin America’s most important dramatists, Griselda Gambaro (Argentina) and Juan Radrigán (Chile).
Las Brutas / Beasts by Juan Radrigán at Theatre 503, 30 August – 24 September
On Tuesday 30 August Las Brutas / Beasts, directed by Sue Dunderale and translated by Catherine Boyle, opens at Theatre 503: www.theatre503.com. The production is in conjunction with Head for Heights Theatre and is the British première of this lyrical and uncompromising play, which we have workshopped in readings at King’s, Tristan Bates Theatre and iceandfire & Amnesty International’s Everyone Has the Right festival.
The timing of the opening could not be better for us, since Juan Radrigán is the favourite to be awarded Chile’s National Theatre Prize, which will be announced on Friday 2 September, our press night.
There will be a staged reading of another of Radrigán’s plays, Hechos consumados / When All is Said and Done,followed by a discussion of Radrigán and theatre in translation, on Saturday 10 September. The play is translated by Catherine Boyle and by directed Justin Lucero of East 15 Acting School, one of the contenders for our Out of the Wing’s Dragons’ Den event in March. All details can be found on the Theatre 503 website.
Los Siameses / Siamese Twins by Griselda Gambaro at Theatro Technis, 2 – 25 September
On 2 September (press night 7 September) Siamese Twins, in translation by the Out of the Wings Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gwen MacKeith, opens at Theatro Technis: http://www.theatrotechnis.com/show.php?id=42. The production is the work of the winners of the Out of the Wings Dragons’ Den event, Mara Lockowandt and Jorge Pérez Falconi of Silver Lining Theatre: www.silverliningtheatre.com.
Griselda Gambaro’s work has received international recognition, but remains little performed in the UK. This play shows her working through with great artistry her form of the Argentine grotesque, and the creative team has already held a very successful workshop on the grotesque at Canning House.
On Monday 19 September there will be a seminar on Latin American Theatre in translation at the Bolívar Hall: http://www.cultura.embavenez-uk.org/
Oberon Books will be publishing Gwen MacKeith’s translation of Siameses Twins: http://oberonbooks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Siamese+Twins.
As Out of the Wings comes near the end of our fully-funded stage, these two London openings are important and exciting for the dissemination of our work
