18 JUL
7:30PM
£15 STANDARD
£10 CONCESSION
£60 FESTIVAL PASS -ACCESS TO ALL 5 PLAYS
PRESENTED BY OUT OF THE WINGS
by José Saramago
translated by Margaret Jull Costa
directed by Roxana Silbert
Out of the Wings returns for its annual festival of Ibero-American playwriting. Celebrating our 10th festival, we present readings of plays from five different countries, all in English translation, and in the UK for the first time.
Is my name there too?
Yes, every letter of it, along with every incident and circumstance.
How dreadful! Your master, as well as being treacherous, as well as being vain, as well as being flighty, is indiscreet to boot.
He’s a man and was born with all a man’s defects - of which he has taken full advantage.
I’ll pay you if you let me tear out the page on which my name is written.
I can’t do that.
Why not?
Because that page contains the names of other women too. If I were to take money from one, I would have to take money from all of them. And, besides, who knows where they will be now? They’re probably married, and their husbands wouldn’t be at all pleased.
Basing himself on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago begins his play with the arrival of the Commendatore to supper. The Commendatore tries and fails to send Don Giovanni down into hell. Leporello arrives with the shopping and is surprised to find the statue there, a statue that can speak. The other characters also duly arrive, each unpicking the myth of Don Giovanni’s success as a seducer of women.
Dona Ana swaps his book listing all the women he has seduced with a blank book. She also says that he was impotent when he came into her bedroom, and that he wasn’t a patch on her lover Don Ottavio. Don Giovanni challenges Don Ottavio to a duel and kills him. Exit all the characters, except Zerlina, who declares that she does, in fact, love him. She and Don Giovanni go off together, Don Giovanni defeated by love.
All plays at #OOTW2026 will be presented as staged readings.
OOTW2026 is supported by Language Acts and Worldmaking, the University of Reading, and the Instituto Cervantes London.
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Age Recommendation
14+
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