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August is traditionally our month off for the UK summer holiday, but this year we’re planning something a little different. During the pandemic we have found our monthly Zoom meeting to be a great chance to connect with each other and our community and to keep our spirits and work alive wherever we are in […]
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We have taken time to reflect on the role we have to play in responding to the issues raised by the events and protests of 2020 and the history and context from which they arose. You can see our statement in English, in Spanish and in Portuguese.
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We were delighted to receive so many wonderful submissions from translators and playwrights for our fifth annual festival of plays from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, originally scheduled for August 2020. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected theatres throughout the UK, we have had to postpone the festival. We still intend to hold […]
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Underlining the practicalities We held the Invitation to Out of the Wings evening on 4 March because we wanted people to see for themselves that we are an inclusive community, that it’s easy to join and that the invitation is always open. Very often, when we explain what we do, people don’t believe how simple […]
Read moreOut of the Wings 2017 saw the first-ever public reading of William Gregory’s translation of Cuzco by Víctor Sánchez Rodríguez. Two years later, the play opened in full production at Theatre503, directed and co-produced by OOTW member Kate O’Connor. From the rehearsal room of that production, Kate talks here about how her involvement with Out […]
Read moreOur Evening with Out of the Wings draws closer and today we’re sharing more reflections from our friends and collaborators. Lanna Joffrey has performed at two of our festivals and has read several at our monthly meetings exploring new translations of plays from throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world and from all eras. “Is a […]
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As we prepare for our forthcoming Evening with Out of the Wings, we’ve asked some of our members and collaborators to talk about how working with Out of the Wings has impacted their work and creativity. Here, from Las Vegas, translator and actor Gigi Guizado talks about how discovering Out of the Wings online led […]
Read moreAs #OOTW2019 comes to a close at the Omnibus Theatre, our director Catherine Boyle reflects on the past four years, and how it all began. Out of the Wings started in 2008 as a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, dedicated to making theatre in Spanish known in the English-speaking world. We […]
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Translator and actor Gigi Guizado is the translator of Complemento, one of many works, originally for radio, by the Colombian dramatist Rafael Guizado, and one of the six plays showcased at our 2019 festival. The shared surname is no coincidence: here, Gigi tells us about how an unexpected visitor opened the path to a world […]
Read moreAs the reading of her play Cassandra, Sandra approaches, author Gabriela Aguilera shares some thoughts on what inspired her to tell this story. This play came about in a very organic way, prompted by a personal experience with death, like a visit to that world that is always present, but is invisible to us until we’re […]
Read moreOut of the Wings is an excellent resource, providing information on a wide range of Spanish-language plays, many of which have never been performed in English.
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