Inaugural TALK : Cervantes: women and theatre in his life and work
COMPANY / SPEAKER : Natalia Menéndez , Directora Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro
SINOPSIS
Natalia Menéndez, director of the International Festival of Classical Theatre of Almagro since 2010, opens the Festival of Spanish Theatre of London with a lecture on “Cervantes: women and theatre in his life and work“. The work of Cervantes -author of Don Quixote- as a playwright is little known. However, his plays are particularly interesting from both literary and social perspectives.
Inaugural TALK : Cervantes: women and theatre in his life and workHumour as a tool for social intervention
COMPANY / SPEAKER: Pepe Viyuela, El Vodevil
SINOPSIS
“Humour as a tool for social intervention”: Pepe Viyuela will give a talk about his experience with Payasos sin Fronteras (Clowns without Borders), an NGO that he has been a part of for over twenty years and that he has travelled to places in conflict with (Kosovo, Iraq, Palestine), in order to make children who suffer from the horrors of war, laugh.
Humour as a tool for social interventionTranslating Himmelweg and The Persistence of Memory
COMPANY / SPEAKER: Prof. David Johnston Queen´s University Belfast
SINOPSIS
Prof. David Johnston’s talk reflects upon what it means to translate a play like Himmelweg, itself the vivid translation of a past we are in danger of forgetting. And yet the memories that recreate that past are irrevocably infused not only with the nightmare of survival, but also with the guilt of inaction.
Translating Himmelweg and The Persistence of MemoryTheatre as a poetic space for reality
COMPANY / SPEAKER: Raimon Molins, Atrium
SINOPSIS
Raimon Molins, director of Atrium, will speak about conventions and the future of staging and contemporary dramaturgy, taking Juan Mayorga’s Himmelweg as a point of departure.
Theatre as a poetic space for reality