The London theatre company Metta Theatre is proud to present an immersive production of Lorca’s Bodas de sangre (‘Blood Wedding)’ in English translation, performed at the Southwark Playhouse this summer, 21 July- 15 August 2009.

For further details see the production website.

American Society for Theatre Research
November 11-15, 2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico
THEATRE, PERFORMANCE, DESTINATION

There is a Golden Age Working Group, New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age: Destiny, Nation Formation, & Puerto Rican Perspectives

The Working Group will divide into three teams: one working on Lo fingido verdadero, another on Fuente Ovejuna, and finally on Los melindres de Belisa. See the ASTR 2009 Call for Participants.  

Questions regarding this Session may be directed to the conveners at astr_gold_2009@yahoo.com

For general information please see the Conference Website.

This symposium seeks to investigate performative trajectories, without neglecting to map the histories and genealogies that inform them. It will explore the ways in which our critical tools – such as postcolonialism and interculturalism – can help us to understand a new cosmopolitan geography and the power relations it reflects. We are interested in finding the spaces where local performance, global performance, the theatre of the centre and the theatre of the margins overlap.  In analysing these spaces we hope to open up a discourse that explores contemporary conceptions of community and universality, and to develop critical schemata to deal with race, class, nationality and gender in performance.

Keynote Speakers: Peter M Boenisch, University of Kent and Silvija Jestrovic, University of Warwick.

The areas of interest for our panelists, performers and workshop coordinators might involve, but are by no means limited to:

* Global performative frameworks/networks
* The significance of cultural boundaries and national borders to performance
* Postcolonial stages
* Theatres of exchange, surrogation and/or substitution
* Tracing trajectories and accounting for histories in intercultural theatre practice
* Cosmopolitan performance
* Community theatre and globalization

Please send 300-word abstracts for papers and workshops along with a brief biography by 13 April to the conference organisers at:mappingperformance@rhul.ac.uk.

Mapping Performance will form the starting-point for the Autumn 2008 issue of Platform, a postgraduate eJournal of Theatre and Performing Arts. Conference participants and delegates are invited to submit papers for this issue: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform/.

Conference Organizers: Emer O’Toole and Mara Lockowandt

This short film season offers both a consideration of the varied ways in which his plays have been envisaged for the screen – from Carlos Saura’s Bodas de sangre / Blood Wedding (1981) to Joaquín Oristrell’s Los abajo firmantes / With George Bush on My Mind (2003) – and explores the fascination that his life, loves and death have held for contemporary filmmakers including Juan Antonio Bardem and Paul Morrison. Ever wondered why Lorca exerts such a powerful hold on the cultural imagination? Well, ‘Lorca on Film’ offers a few answers in a cinematic journey that moves from Granada to Paris and from surrealism to the biopic, in presenting a unique perspective into the life, death and work of one of Spain’s most celebrated writers.

Curator Maria M. Delgado

Producer Joana Granero

On Saturday 1 November 2008 a symposium was held in the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, about Lorca and his work. You can now download video and audio of our discussions during the event from the University of Warwick Capital Centre webpage.

The symposium events are also available on Itunes by clicking here.

Call for Papers

Annual Meeting of the MLA, December, 2009

The Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century Spanish Drama of the Modern Language Association is pleased to announce an open Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the MLA to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27-30, 2009. The topics of the three sessions sponsored by the Division are as follows:

Spaces and Places in the Early Modern Public Theater

• Creation of dramatic space in the Comedia through deixis, diegesis, and visual images, within the context of the theaters’ physical spaces.

Polyphony in the Comedia

• Multiple voices, points of view, plots, forms of speech, meters, and sounds, and their relation to the organicity of comedias, their dramatic effects, reception, etc.

Early Modern Spanish Drama beyond the Public Playhouses

• Court, private, church, convent, Jesuit, university, and street theaters: their influences and dramatic traditions, theatrical assumptions, venues, audiences, etc.

One page abstracts should be sent to Donald R. Larson at: larson.3[at]osu.edu. Deadline: March 15, 2009

The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater presents its 2009 Symposium on Golden Age Theater in El Paso, Texas, 5-7 March 2009. Among the invited speakers will be David Johnston of Queen’s University Belfast (one of the Project Directors of Out of the Wings). The Symposium runs alongside the Siglo de Oro Drama Festival held yearly at Chamizal National Memorial. For more information, see the AHCT Symposium Website

Or learn more about the Siglo de Oro festival from the Chamizal National Memorial

The National University of Distance Education and the Centre for Theatrical Documentation in Madrid are organising a seminar specifically on Spanish theatre written in the twenty-first century (2000-09).

For more information (in Spanish), read the Circular

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.

The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) is an international collective of scholars, educators, and practitioners founded in 1986.  The association hosts an annual conference, where upwards of 1000 people gather to present panels, conduct demonstrations, meet world-famous theatre artists, and test-drive new ideas.

For the first time in ATHE’s history, this conference will feature a Seminar addressing the dramaturgy of the Siglo de Oro:  Strategies for Reviving Plays from the Spanish Golden Age, In Class and On Stage. Through pre-conference exchanges, in-conference discussions, and post-conference networking, this Seminar offers participants (and their auditors) extraordinary opportunities to share insights, interact with international experts, and forge new developments in the field.

The deadline for submitting an abstract is Nov 1, so if you’re interested in participating, read on!

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