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OUT OF THE WINGS FESTIVAL 2023

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Out of the Wings returns for its seventh annual festival of theatre in translation from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds.

Out of the Wings returns for its seventh annual festival of theatre in translation from the worlds of Spanish-, Portuguese- and Catalan-language playwriting. Over five nights, we present readings of plays from five different countries, all in English translation and in the UK for the first time.

Our 2023 festival brings work from Nicaragua and Panama to our line-up for the first time, as well as plays from Catalonia, Argentina and Brazil. From a 20th-Century classic to new writing of the 21st, the plays of #OOTW2023 share stories across borders and explore universal themes of family life, the impact of conflict, the fight for human rights, the role of the artist, and the search for purpose in a confusing and fractured world.

Alongside the OOTW Forum at King’s College London, practical workshops, encounters with writers and translators, our festival book-sale, an exhibition of photographs from across OOTW’s history, and an opportunity to meet the OOTW team informally, discover with us the best of Ibero-American playwriting, in a celebration of international collaboration and theatre in translation.

Born out of a collaboration between its co-founders and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed Spanish Golden Age season, OOTW has been bringing English translations of theatre from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds to the UK and beyond since 2008.

All plays at #OOTW2023 will be presented as staged readings.

Pictured: Gigi Guizado and Ángel López-Silva at OOTW2022
Photo: Terry Cripps

11-15 JUL
#OOTW2023
FESTIVAL PASS

See all Out of the Wings 2022 plays by purchasing an Festival Pass below.

The Festival Pass allows you access to all five readings in Out of the Wings Festival 2023. To secure your spot, please arrive at Box Office at least 15 minutes ahead of each event start time otherwise the space may be released.

THE MYTH OF GRAVITY

11 JUL

By Xavier Stanziola
Translated by Alexander Aguayo

Directed by Robyn Lexi

What would you do if they threatened to take your children away from you? Alejandra and Karla face the unimaginable: being falsely accused of mistreating their adopted son. This is a play with complex characters who discover their darkest instincts, willing to do anything to save their family.

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THE TAXIDERMIST

12 JUL

By René Piazentin
Translated by Sughey Ramírez

Directed by Almiro Andrade

What goes into an identity and what matters in the end? Grim, you say? Yes, but the delivery? Hilarious. The Taxidermist invites us to confront how we cope with conflict, violence, loss, and agency (or the lack of), through a community of especially vulnerable actors: animals, children, casualties of war.

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THE PEASANTS WALK THE PATHWAYS

13 JUL

By Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Translated by William Gregory

Directed by Sergio Maggiolo

In 1920s Nicaragua, Sebastiano and Juana see their peaceful rural lives torn apart by civil war, exploitation, and occupation. Performed in English for the first time, this classic of C20th Nicaraguan theatre explores the devastating impact of conflict on ordinary people, and the fragile resilience of family, hope and faith.

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THE FUTURE

14 JUL

By Helena Tornero
Translated by Helena Buffery

Directed by Giovanna Koyama

The Future is a “road play” that takes us on a journey from Barcelona to Stockholm. A journey through contemporary Europe and the multiple conflicts tattooed on its surface: reality versus fiction; war versus peace; environmental crisis, migration, political corruption and the arms trade; racism versus hospitality and care.

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THE ANEMONE AND THE BOAR

15 JUL

By Mónica Maffía
Translated by Sophie Stevens

Directed by Camila Ymay González

In Spain in 1936, three women come together to present a weekly radio programme. As repression, violence and censorship become increasingly present in their world, threatening their lives and their rights, they start to work together as activists using their creativity and ingenuity to resist political oppression.

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