Call for Expressions of Interest: Black Playwrights and Theatre-Makers of the Spanish- and Portuguese-Speaking Worlds

The Out of the Wings Collective (OOTW) plans to hold an event in December 2020 focussing on the work of Black playwrights and theatre-makers in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds*, the researchers who research them, and the translators who translate them. The event will combine a sharing of knowledge and practice with an invitation to engage longer […]

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Looking Ahead: Our Plans for the Rest of 2020

As the UK summer continues, we look ahead to September and beyond.  Like most others, we did not imagine that 2020 would bring such challenges, but as a collective we have found opportunities to rethink our work and continue sharing with our community, as we await the time when our annual festival can return. Our […]

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Ready or Not (here I come): Translating Playfulness in ‘Punto y Coma’ by Estela Golovchenko

By Sophie Stevens Women in Translation Month 2020 Ready or Not (Punto y coma, 2003) by Uruguayan dramatist Estela Golovchenko was a play that I worked on and translated as part of my PhD research. It instantly captivated my imagination and sparked my curiosity because I felt that the voices and the conflict presented were […]

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Translators for Tea on August 28

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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Black Lives Matter and Diversity in our Work

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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Our Plans for the 2020 OOTW Festival

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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On Invitation to Out of the Wings and on Becoming Virtual

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 […]

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‘Without Out of the Wings I wouldn’t have found this text at all.’ Director Kate O’Connor on how the work of OOTW led to a UK premiere production

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Out 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 […]

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‘It’s a phenomenal exchange of work across countries.’ Actor Lanna Joffrey on working with Out of the Wings

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Our 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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‘It has taken what was a little known fact about me… and made it a major selling point.’ Gigi Guizado on the impact of Out of the Wings

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 […]

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