Luciana Acuña is one of the most exciting figures in contemporary dance. Her energy lit up La edad media/ The Middle Ages, the 2022 Covid-19 lockdown film she co-directed with her partner…
For his newest play, La última noche con mi hermano (The Last Night With My Brother), Alfredo Sanzol has taken inspiration from a friend telling him about the final night she spent with h…
What does it mean to be honest with your partner? This is the premise that governs Salomé Lelouch's entertaining two-hander, Mejor no decirlo/You Shouldn't Have Said So which presents a cou…
There were two key themes running through this year's Teatro a Mil, the Chilean capital's long-running theatre and performing arts festival. "Yes, Theatre Matters" may have been the festival…
The power of education as a tool for emancipation and democratic thinking has been the subject of a few productions of late in Spanish theatre. To Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero's El mar…
The House of Bernarda Alba has engendered no shortage of spin-offs " dance and film adaptations like those of Eleo Pomare, Mats Ek and Mario Camus, as well works that pick up the piece's cha…
La Cubana have been making theatre for over 45 years " stagings that have reimagined popular genres while contemplating the dynamics of putting on a show from the perspectives of those worki…
El dÃa del Watusi (The Day of the Watusi) gets a second outing at the Teatre Lliure. First seen in the 2023/4 season at the Lliure's Grà cia venue, it now plays in the larger Montjuï…
How do we learn to forgive, especially in the aftermath of a massacre that has no rational explanation? This is the subject of Diego Garrido Sanz's Violencia (Violence), his adaptation of Fr…
There is no shortage of plays on the subject of mid-life crisis, from Alan Charles' Midlife Crisis to Tracy Letts' Linda Vista. Writer-director Pablo Remón has added to the mix with his t…
There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to happen, only as the conversations unravel, they reveal characters whose experiences give the prod…
In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Taija Helminen, Tanjalotta Räikkä and executive director Hanna Rosendahl) ref…
The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia MartÃn Ruiz, opened on 26 June and ran through to 4 August. 97 productions attracted 127,724 spectators for the 202…
The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London premiere in September 2024 opened in Barcelona on 5 July as part of this year's Grec festival. Acto…
Peter Sellars isn't afraid of taking risks. It's part of his approach to making work, as his 2024 production of Beatrice di Tenda showed. For this new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Casto…
David Trueba's films have often had a theatrical dimension. La silla de Fernando/ Fernando's Chair, co-directed with Luis Alegre (2006), revolved a conversation with the legendary actor-writ…
How to begin to approach a history of the Spanish Civil War for the stage? An ambitious prospect and one that Andrés Lima has set himself drawing on the team with whom he realised Shock 1. …
Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, first produced at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in 1835, like the Schiller play it draws on, demands two outstanding performers. It rises or falls on the quali…
Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona's Teatre Lliure twenty-one years ago. It was an epic, fast-moving staging realised in a gyrating fishbowl set, cha…
Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima's Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet " seen at this year's Edinburgh International Festival "Â through the eyes of actors with Down's Syndrome.…
Tampere is Finland's third largest city" parallels are often drawn with Manchester, in part because of its shared industrial history, and also because of the frequency of rain! It is perhaps…
In my humble view, Tiago Rodrigues is one of the most important theatre makers at work today. His is a theatre that asks profound questions about what we value and why, and what we are p…
La Zaranda are one of Spain's best kept theatrical secrets. Not because they are not well known or respected in Spain " they have a cult reputation in the Spanish-speaking world with a l…
Nuria Espert turns 89 today. Hers has been an extraordinary career and it's not over yet. She has just spent over 13 months on tour with La isla del aire/The island of the air, a new play ad…
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How f…