Capitalism Meets Austerity in Àlex Rigola’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”
Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona’s Teatre Lliure...
Read MoreMaria Delgado is an academic, curator, and critic. Professor and Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, she has published widely in the areas of Spanish-language theatre and film. Her books include "Other" Spanish Theatres (Manchester University Press, 2003, revised Spanish language edition published in 2017), Federico García Lorca (Routledge, 2008), and twelve co-edited volumes, including Contemporary European Theatre Directors (Routledge, 2011) and A Companion To Latin American Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). She writes for publications, including Sight & Sound and European Stages, and has appeared as a guest contributor on a range of BBC radio programs.
Posted by Maria Delgado | 11th Nov 2024 | Review, Spain
Àlex Rigola first staged David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at Barcelona’s Teatre Lliure...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 10th Nov 2024 | Review, Spain
Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari of Lima’s Teatro La Plaza, reconfigured Hamlet — seen at this...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 15th Aug 2024 | Festivals, Finland, Review, Tampere Theatre Festival 2024
Tampere is Finland’s third largest city— parallels are often drawn with Manchester, in part...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 15th Aug 2024 | Festivals, Finland, Portugal, Review, Tampere Theatre Festival 2024
In my humble view, Tiago Rodrigues is one of the most important theatre makers at work today. His...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 16th Jun 2024 | Review, Spain
La Zaranda are one of Spain’s best kept theatrical secrets. Not because they are not well known or...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 11th Jun 2024 | Acting, News, Spain
Nuria Espert turns 89 today. Hers has been an extraordinary career and it’s not over yet. She has...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 12th Apr 2024 | Review, Spain
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 9th Apr 2024 | Review, Spain
Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn’t always sensible. Will it be...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 25th Mar 2024 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 25th Mar 2024 | Review, Spain
The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 22nd Mar 2024 | Directing, Review, Spain
Susanne Kennedy doesn’t do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 27th Feb 2024 | France, Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera
Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Chile, News, Santiago a Mil 2024
Santiago a Mil is an annual theatre and performing arts festival held in the Chilean capital in...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 24th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Catching up with Guillermo Calderón’s Villa at Santiago a Mil after almost 12 years has been a...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 23rd Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
El Brote (The Break) is the tale of an actor who doesn’t feel he’s had the career breaks his...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 20th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Piel de Lava have been making work for 20 years and it shows. Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa,...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 19th Jan 2024 | Chile, Review, Santiago a Mil 2024
Think of a film set where the audience gathered on the streets are not fully aware that they are...
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