The House of the Spirits post-show video and photos: How does a country – and a family – recover from dictatorship?
The House of the Spirits post-show video and photos: How does a country – and a family – recover from dictatorship?

The House of the Spirits post-show video and photos: How does a country – and a family – recover from dictatorship?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T15:01:56+00:004 November 2019|Tags: Cervantes Theatre, Featured Show, Isabel Allende, Off-West End, Paula Paz, Terri Paddock events, The House of the Spirits|

Are you fans of Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits? Allende's debut novel charts four generations of one family from the 1920s and the 1970s, and how tightly intertwined their personal fortunes are with political winds of change.

0

The Eyes of the Night Q&A video and photos: Using darkness to enlighten audiences about visual impairment
The Eyes of the Night Q&A video and photos: Using darkness to enlighten audiences about visual impairment

The Eyes of the Night Q&A video and photos: Using darkness to enlighten audiences about visual impairment

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T16:11:24+00:0014 September 2019|Tags: Catherine Boyle, Cervantes Theatre, Featured Show, Lanna Joffrey, Nigel Lewis, Paloma Pedrero, Post-show Q&As, Samuel Brewer, Simone Coxall, Terri Paddock events, The Eyes of the Night|

A middle-aged businesswoman hires a blind man to spend an hour with her in a hotel room. Why are they really there? Will she be able to experience the darkness in order to see the light?

0

The Reality Q&A video and photos: What’s the state of new Spanish playwriting?
The Reality Q&A video and photos: What’s the state of new Spanish playwriting?

The Reality Q&A video and photos: What’s the state of new Spanish playwriting?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:08:08+00:006 May 2019|Tags: Cervantes Theatre, Denise Despeyroux, Maite Jauregui, Raymi Ortuste Quiroga, Terri Paddock events, The Reality|

The Cervantes Theatre's headlines its third New Spanish Playwriting season with the full UK and English-language premiere of Denise Despeyroux's one-woman show The Reality, which had a dramatised reading at the theatre last year.

0

Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?
Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?

Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:40:51+00:0011 November 2018|Tags: Cervantes Theatre, Coco Mbassi, Jorge de Juan, Leila Damilola, Lorca, Spanish Theatre Company, Terri Paddock events, Tom Whitelock, Yerma|

Federico Garcia Lorca spent three months in Cuba in 1930 - six years before he was assassinated (aged just 38) by Franco nationalists in his native Spain. He fell in love with the Caribbean island nation and it with him. And it's this association that inspired Jorge de Juan in his new adaptation of Lorca classic Yerma.

0

Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?
Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?

Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T23:16:06+00:0029 September 2018|Tags: Ay Carmela!, Cervantes Theatre, Ivanhoe Norona, Jorge de Juan, Lorca, Madalena Alberto, Paula Paz, Post-show Q&As, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Theatre Company, Terri Paddock events, Yerma|

How much do you know about the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? Who fought on the side of the Republicans and who for the Nationalists? What happened to those who got caught in the middle, such as Paulino and Carmelo in Jose Sanchis Sinisterra's Ay, Carmela!?

0