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Out of the Wings Festival 2024 – Call for Script Submissions 

Out of the Wings Festival 2024 Omnibus Theatre Clapham Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 July 2024 Call for Script Submissions  Update 17 February 2024: This call is now closed, but OOTW is active all year round and we welcome proposals for our monthly table-read. More information at our FAQs. Update 10 January 2024: we are […]

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‘I was born at the border’: dramatist Helena Tornero on writing across frontiers.

The Future (El futur), by Catalan dramatist Helena Tornero, will have its UK premiere at the 2023 Out of the Wings festival, translated by Helena Buffery, on 14 July 2023. Here, the playwright reflects on borders – geographical borders, and those of the mind – and her playwriting journey to crossing them. I was born […]

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Out of the Wings Festival 2023, July 11-15

Out of the Wings returns for its seventh annual festival of theatre in translation from the worlds of Spanish-, Portuguese- and Catalan-language playwriting, and beyond. Commencing with the Out of the Wings Forum at King’s College London, the week continues at Omnibus Theatre with play readings from five different countries, all in English translation and in the UK […]

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Translating Deviance: The Gravity Myth

Every month, Out of the Wings invites a translator to share their work in our free-to-attend laboratory.  We gather to read a play in translation, discuss it, and offer feedback.  All are welcome.  For our December 2022 session, we were joined by Panamanian playwright Javier Stanziola and  translator Alexander Aguayo, with Alexander’s English translation of […]

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OOTW2023 – Call for Play Submissions

  **UPDATED 15 April 2023: Submissions for the 2023 OOTW Festival and Forum are now closed. Please see our FAQs for information about other ways to share your work with us throughout the year.** Out of the Wings Festival 2023 Omnibus Theatre Clapham Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 July 2023 Call for Play Submissions Out […]

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Caption This: The Story of How a Photo Came to Be

Every month, Out of the Wings invites a translator to share their work in our free-to-attend laboratory.  We gather to read a play in translation, discuss it, and offer feedback.  All are welcome.  In this blog, translator Gigi Guizado tells us about her experience of sharing her work with us, how she found us, and […]

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When the Earth Stood Still: Translating for the End of the World

Every month, Out of the Wings invites a translator to share their work in our free-to-attend laboratory.  We gather to read a play in translation, discuss it, and offer feedback.  All are welcome.  For our October 2022 session, we were joined by Honduran playwright Luís Emilio Cerna Mazier and  translator Larisa Muñoz, with Larisa’s English […]

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Out of the Wings Needs You!

As a collective of practitioners made up of volunteers, OOTW is only as strong as its constituent parts.  We are also unusual in the world of UK theatre as our programming is based entirely on a completely and continuously open submission process.  So if you think you could contribute to the running of the collective, […]

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From Caracas to London: Staying Connected with ‘Wanted a Pillbox…’

The Out of the Wings festival 2022 opens on 19 July with Daniel Dannery’s Wanted a Pillbox, Ended up with a Plastic Bag, translated and directed by Mary Ann Vargas.  In advance of rehearsals, Mary Ann and Daniel, in London and Caracas respectively, chatted over WhatsApp audio – apt for a play about social media […]

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Mar (Sea) – A Translator-Actress’s Journey

Every month, Out of the Wings invites a translator to share their work in our free-to-attend laboratory.  We gather to read a play in translation, discuss it, and offer feedback.  All are welcome.  For our April 2021 session, we were joined by translator Naty Barry and her translation of Mar/Sea by Argentinian playwright Arístides Vargas.  […]

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