Friday’s event in King’s College London’s sumptuous River Room was very well attended, with 58 guests from all across the UK and from as far away as Madrid, enjoying wine and nibbles as the project team introduced themselves. Highlights of the evening included a warm welcome address by Catherine Boyle of King’s, an introduction to the nature of translation in this project given by David Johnston of Queen’s in Belfast, Oxford’s Jonathan Thacker stressing the clear and present need for the project’s contribution to increased productions of Spanish drama, along with Paul Spence’s provocative merging of academic research with technological methods at King’s, a fusion at the heart of his work on the project.

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