Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air) into a play. The textured novel weaving together the voices of three generations of women deal…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:39AMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that he animates with a magician’s sense of the unexpected. His dramaturgy provides the spect…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:54AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Juan Mayorga, one of Spain’s most decorated dramatists — a member of Spain’s Spanish Royal Academy since 2019 and recipient of the Princess of Asturias Literature Prize in 2022 — is …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:14PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Florian Zeller’s The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It provides a direct and confrontational examination of the challenges of living with dement…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:38PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre section, likes boxes. Many of his scenographic configurations have gravitated around a structur…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:19PMFriday, December 25, 2020
It’s December 22nd, not quite the night before Christmas but not far off, and the news has just reached me that Kamikaze productions will leave Madrid’s Pavón theatre, with its spectacu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:39AMMonday, April 27, 2020
There was a moment on April 7th when the vision for culture in Spain under Covid-19 looked pretty bleak. While a series of streaming options were offering salvation to a nation under lockdow…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:21PMFriday, April 17, 2020
In late March, as Spain experienced the effects of Coronavirus lockdown, publishing house uÑa RoTa asked their authors—novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists—to film a video to post on…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:58AMThursday, April 2, 2020
Tracy Letts’s Bug may be fourteen years old, but this tale of a couple convinced that they are suffering an insect infestation feels infinitely more topical now than when it was first seen…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:51AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Guillem Clua has produced a varied body of work for the Catalan theatre. His plays sometimes have a feelgood quality, as with Smiley (2012), a queer love story for the twenty-first century. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:53PMSaturday, December 14, 2019
Alfredo Arias has been based in France for many decades now, but he is an increasingly frequent visitor to the Argentine stage—recent works seen in Buenos Aires include Tatuaje (English ti…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:08AMFriday, December 13, 2019
A performance for teenage schoolchildren of Diego Casado Rubio’s Millones de Segundos (English title: Millions of Seconds) at Teatro El Extranjero offered an opportunity to catch one of Bu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:00AMFriday, December 6, 2019
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To this collection of works now comes veteran Argentine dramatist Mauricio Kartun’s La vis c…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:45PMThursday, December 5, 2019
In 2013 Ignacio Bartolone created a buzz with his first play, Piedra sentada, Pata corrida (English title: Sitting Stone, Running Foot). He has gone on to establish himself as a key figure i…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:48PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
Romina Paula is perhaps best known outside Argentina for her work as an actress in seminal films such as Santiago Mitre’s El Estudiante (English title: The Student, 2011), Mariano Llinás�…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:34AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
For many in the English-speaking world, the company Piel de Lava is known primarily for its work in Mariano Llinás’s 13+ hour epic, La flor (English title The Flower, 2016-18), a glorious…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:00PM 
