OUT OF THE WINGS FESTIVAL 2022

Generating relationships online … it’s child’s play.

Digital society is driven by ambivalence and anxiety. Worlds we strive to belong to, escape us, like water slipping through our fingers. Worlds made of pills, racks, and plastic bags. Worlds of labels, stilettos, and shopping trolleys; of suicides and collectives. A metaverse.

Written by Daniel Dannery (Venezuela)

Translated by Mary Ann Vargas

Directed by Mary Ann Vargas

Away from the sound of bullets and cries of despair that characterise life for many living by the river that separates northern Mexico and the USA, we hear the voices of ghosts: people who had fears, hopes and fell in love despite the tragedy unfolding around them.

Written by Luis Edoardo Torres (Mexico)

Translated by Stephen Brown

Directed by Almiro Andrade

Early Modern texts from the diverse worlds and traditions of Iberia are littered with a riotous range of poetic structures, which are continually fleshed out by characters sharing rhymes, and given some added colour through raunchy rhetoric. These textual realities provide plenty of torturous delight for the translator, but it also means there is a great deal at stake, and a raft of creative solutions has to be mobilised to ferry meaning across to an audience.

A double bill of mistaken identities. In Argentina, Valentina, who’s not a child anymore, becomes a girl again, to tell us about a girl who is a girl and sometimes a boy. While in Early Modern Mallorca, feeling the need for some decent company, poor Llacinta is in dire straits…

The Girl who was Cyrano

Written by Guillermo Baldo (Argentina)

Translated by Sebastián Gutiérrez

Directed by Mariana Aristizábal

The Fisherman’s Short Play

Written by an unknown, Early Modern Mallorcan playwright

Directed by Sergio Maggiolo

To celebrate OOTW’s first-ever play written for young audiences, join us before the performance of The Girl who was Cyrano to explore the role of translation in theatre for young people. How international are our stages for children and young audiences? How does translation in the world of theatre for young people compare to its role in the wider context of young people’s literature?  And what particular questions do translators face when translating plays for a younger audience? 

OOTW member and translator William Gregory chairs this conversation, with an invited panel of guests. 

A girl hides from a family barbecue under the shade of a tree. A teenager scatters her uncle’s ashes. A young woman stares at a screensaver of snowy mountains. In this kaleidoscopic quest for emancipation, nature itself might turn out to be her most faithful accomplice.

Written by María Velasco (Spain)

Translated by Kelsi Vanada

Directed by Kate O’Connor

We always translate from a specific time and place. This workshop asks what happens when the place we translate from is feminism. The workshop will be led by Out of the Wings theatre translators and researchers, Catherine Boyle and Sophie Stevens, and theatre practitioners Gaël Le Cornec and Fran Olivares. We will explore the translation of activist hashtags and of dramatic texts and practices that test the limits of translation. What are they? What role do different subjectivities and positions play in the translation of texts across time and space?  We will explore texts in both  Spanish and Portuguese.

A real estate comedy for two actors.

Two immovable assets seek a home.

Or should it be: one immovable asset seeks a home. The other’s only there to open the door.

How to buy a house in a land where foreign investment has forced prices through the proverbial roof?

Written by Ricardo Neves Neves (Portugal)

Translated by Sarah Greenwood