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CATALAN-WALES DRAMA FESTIVAL – NEW PLAYS TO BE PERFORMED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UK
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The Catalan-Wales Drama Festival, celebrating the first English translation and publication of three outstanding Catalan plays, will take place from 30 October to 1 November at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. This an exciting opportunity to see new drama from two rich and distinctive theatrical cultures.
It features the debut UK performances of The Sale by Lluïsa Cunillé, winner of the Calderón de la Barca award and the 2004 City of Barcelona Prize for Theatre and one of the most singular voices in Catalan theatre today, Black Beach by the award-winning novelist and dramatist Jordi Coca, and a reading of Joan Casas’ Naked.
There will also be readings of two new plays from Wales: Dirty Something by Othniel Smith, who has written extensively for BBC Radio and television, and Incidental by Kit Lambert, winner of the 2005 Sherman ScriptSlam and shortlisted for the Kings Cross New Writing Award.
The festival marks the publication of Black Beach: Three Catalan Plays by Parthian, Wales’ most innovative independent publisher (best known for the Library of Wales series). It will also include a panel discussion featuring the festival directors, the playwright Jordi Coca, and the leading academic David George from Swansea University, which promises to be a lively look at the current shape of Catalan and Welsh drama today.
Directed by Jeff Teare and Chris White and starring some of Wales’s leading actors, the plays touch on such diverse subjects as politics, love, language, and death. The festival is a partnership between Made in Wales Stage Company, Parthian, and Tinderbox, and is supported by the Ramon Llull Institute in Barcelona. |
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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