The Brian Friel Theatre, Queen’s University Belfast

Friday 26 November 2010

7.30pm. Tickets £4.00 on the door with a complimentary glass of wine or soft drink.

As part of Queen’s Quarter Weekends, Play in a Day presents a dramatised reading of Ernesto Caballero’s thriller En la roca, translated as On the Rock by Sarah Maitland:

The year is 1937. Across Spain, a brutal civil war is raging. In the famous Hotel Rock of Gibraltar, two young men reminisce over the course of an evening about their Cambridge days. In a meeting where nothing is quite what it seems, the fate of the Second Spanish Republic and the very course of World War Two rests in their hands. On the Rock invites its audience to step back in time to the inter-war years and the smoke-filled world of international espionage...

Translation and Spanish Theatre continue to be In the Air…

Below is a link for more information about upcoming rehearsed readings of contemporary Spanish translated plays organised by Rose Bruford College and Caos Editorial. Out of the Wings visited this event last year and is looking forward to another great series of readings.

http://www.eurotheatro.eu/eurotheatro/en/actos/2009Londres.html
For those interested in attending the event on Friday 16 October, the person to contact is Diane Stacey at Rose Bruford, email diane.stacey[at]bruford.ac.uk or telephone 0208 3082618.

Janet Morris, Out of the Wings’s Project Associate, writes…

I was very fortunate to see rehearsed readings, in English translation, of three plays by contemporary Spanish authors.  The event, at the Soho Studio on 25 October, was organised by the Euro Theatro Association, in collaboration with Rose Bruford College in London, the Spanish Ministry for Culture and Caos Editorial.

The plays were written by different authors and each text had been translated by a different translator. All three performances, directed and played by theatre professionals, were very impressive and these were enriched by subsequent discussions involving the playwrights.

Congratulations to everyone involved in such a successful event.

For those who read Spanish, there is detailed coverage in Público online here.

For the fourth year running, the Euro Theatro Association, in collaboration
with Rose Bruford College in London, the Spanish Ministry for Culture
(INAEM and the Department for the Promotion of Books, Reading and Spanish
Arts), and Caos Editorial, proudly presents rehearsed readings in English translation
of three plays by contemporary Spanish authors.

View the full programme here:

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