by Alberto Conejero translated from the Spanish by Michael Grundmann and Clara Ministral ☆ 2025 Eurodram English-Language Committee Selection Bios Alberto Conejero is a playwright and poet. Born in 1978 in Vilches, in the province of Jaén in Southern Spain, he holds a degree in Stage Direction and Playwriting from Real Escuela Superior de Arte…
Infinite Banquet By Alberto Pedro Torriente Translated from Spanish by Linda S. Howe The author and context Cuba’s Special Period(1990-2000) encompasses the economic crisis caused by the abrupt disappearance of the Soviet Union and its subsidies. The Castro government was overwhelmed, triggering Cubans’ fear for their literal survival. Artists and writers zeroed in on the…
Photo by Victor Pelayo By Sergio López Vigueras Translated from Spanish by Jacqueline E. Bixler The Bullet presents the story of Lauro and Valeria, who furtively glance at and wonder about each other every morning as they ride to their respective jobs on a microbús. On this particular morning, their daily routine as well as…
Chema Ruiz and Jesús Noguero in Madrid production. Photo by Marta Vidanes. By Luis Araújo Translated from Spanish by Phyllis Zatlin Kafka In Love (Kafka enamorado) by Spanish playwright Luis Araújo is based in large part on Franz Kafka’s letters, written from 1912 to 1917. Some brief scenes also evoke moments from Kafka’s fictional works,…
Romina Paula. Fauna and Other Plays. Ed. April Sweeney and Brenda Werth. Trans. April Sweeney, Brenda Werth, and Jean Graham-Jones. Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2023. 164 pp. Reviewed by May Summer Farnsworth Fauna and Other Plays, edited by April Sweeney and Brenda Werth, offers four plays in English translation by Argentine playwright Romina Paula. The editors,…
Penelope No Longer Knits
By Malena Sándor
Translated from Spanish by May Farnsworth, Camila García, and Erin Griffis
The Children of Malinche
By Hugo Salcedo
Translated from Spanish by Carolyn Malloy and Georgina Whittingham
By Virgilio Piñera Translated from Cuban Spanish by Linda S. Howe Volumne 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2023) The author and context. Virgilio Piñera published the text of his play Los Siervos [The Serfs], a caustic attack on Stalinism and totalitarianism, in the Havana journal Ciclón in November 1955. He embraced the bleak irony of Adamov,…
By Pablo Remón Translated from Castilian Spanish by Sandra Kingery Volume 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2023) I recently had the immense pleasure of seeing my translation of Pablo Remón’s The Treatment performed by the Theatre Department at Lycoming College. Dr. Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian directed the 8 students who played 25 characters: https://www.lycoming.edu/news/stories/2022/04/the-treatment.aspx. (The play can be…
Photo: Carolina Bustamante as NN; Gracia Morales as the Forensic Scientist By Gracia Morales Translated from Castilian Spanish by Phyllis Zatlin Volume 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2023) I met Gracia Morales in the fall of 2018 at the University of Southern Indiana during an international theatre conference organized by A. David Hitchcock. When I had…
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