THE RAPE OF A THEATRE ACTRESS

PRESENTED BY OUT OF THE WINGS

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.

In tumultuous times, the plays of #OOTW2026 bring provocation and challenge, distraction and delight. 

In The Rape of a Theatre Actress by Chilean playwright Carla Zúñiga, the trauma of past sexual violence brings an artist to the brink just as she is about to begin a performance. Translated by Fran Olivares, the play tackles head-on the scourge of misogyny in the arts and in the wider world beyond.

The play readings are one element of #OOTW2026’s six-day programme of theatre in translation. This unmissable flagship event in the OOTW calendar begins with the OOTW Forum at King’s College London, then continues with practical workshops, and opportunities to meet the OOTW team. Join us as we showcase the diversity of playwriting in Iberia and Latin America across a week of creativity, and cross-border collaboration. 

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 #OOTW2026 will be presented as staged readings.

Pictured: Carly Fernandez, Ángel López-Silva and Elena Sanz in Daniel Dannery’s Wanted a pillbox, ended up with a plastic bag, translated and directed by Mary Ann Vargas, at the 2022 OOTW Festival. (Photo: Terry Cripps.)