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Yerma

Simon Stone

,

Federico Garcia Lorca

and

National Theatre

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...Age recommendation: 15+ (very strong language and sexual references) This Young Vic production was recorded through National Theatre Live on 31st August, 2017. A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have...

Revenge is Sweet

Andrew Tidmarsh

Andrew Tidmarsh is theatre and film director, writer and teacher. He has taught this practical approach to genre to writers, directors and actors at RADA, Goldsmiths, and Drama Centre at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has directed in UK, Germany, Canada and Philippines, and is the director of an annual new writing festival at the Soho Theatre in London. He regularly teaches in Canada and Dubai. His book An Attitude for Acting will be published by Nick Hern books in 2011. Andrew Tidmarsh is a theatre director, film-maker and teacher. He has taught at leading drama schools and currently runs the Foundation course at RADA. He has directed work at Soho Theatre, Wimbledon Studio, Shakespeare's Globe and Jermyn Street Theatre. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Genre : A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014

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...The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd , The Spanish Tragedy , revised edn, London : Methuen Drama...

The House of Bernarda Alba

Written by

Federico Garcia Lorca

and

Rona Munro

From an original work by

Federico Garcia Lorca

Translated by

Rona Munro

~playauthor~Written by~ Federico Garcia Lorca , Rona Munro ~playauthor~From an original work by~ Federico Garcia Lorca ~playauthor~Translated by~ Rona Munro

Nick Hern Books, 1999

NHB Classic Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (8), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

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...Rona Munro's version of Federico García Lorca’s 1936 play The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) was commissioned by Shared Experience and first performed at the Salisbury Playhouse on 11 March 1999...

Disaster and Regeneration

Keith Gregor

Keith Gregor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia in Spain. He has published widely on Shakespeare in performance and Spanish drama and theatre practice. Since 1999 he has worked on a research project on the reception of Shakespeare in Spain ( www.um.es/shakespeare ). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre : 1772 to the Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...1898 The explosion that sank the American battleship USS Maine in Havana bay in February 1898 precipitated a major diplomatic conflict between the United States and Spain, which quickly degenerated into war. Spanish defeat...

Life is a Dream

Written by

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

and

Helen Edmundson

Adapted by

Helen Edmundson

~playauthor~Written by~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca , Helen Edmundson ~playauthor~Adapted by~ Helen Edmundson

Nick Hern Books, 2009

NHB Classic Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 39, Roles: Total (11), Female (2), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

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...Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is a masterpiece from the Spanish Golden Age by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–81), exploring illusion, reality and fate against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom. Helen Edmundson's version...

Women Playing Hamlet on the Spanish Stage

José Manuel González

José Manuel González

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Women Making Shakespeare : Text, Reception, Performance

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014

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...Studies of female Shakespearean performance are practically non-existent in Spain, despite the fact women have been part of Spanish theatre since medieval times. Their presence on the public stage has remained a problematic and complex...

False Beginnings

Keith Gregor

Keith Gregor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia in Spain. He has published widely on Shakespeare in performance and Spanish drama and theatre practice. Since 1999 he has worked on a research project on the reception of Shakespeare in Spain ( www.um.es/shakespeare ). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre : 1772 to the Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...A Return to the Golden Age? In Chapter 1 I considered the great cultural debates of the latter half of the eighteenth century, which confronted proponents of the perpetuation of a classical Greco-Roman aesthetic such as Luzán...

The Transition and Beyond

Keith Gregor

Keith Gregor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia in Spain. He has published widely on Shakespeare in performance and Spanish drama and theatre practice. Since 1999 he has worked on a research project on the reception of Shakespeare in Spain ( www.um.es/shakespeare ). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre : 1772 to the Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...Remembering Caesar The death of Franco in 1975 marked the beginning of a process in which the country was metamorphosed from Western Europe’s last remaining dictatorship to a modern democratic state. The ‘Transition’, as many...

The Birth of Character

Keith Gregor

Keith Gregor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia in Spain. He has published widely on Shakespeare in performance and Spanish drama and theatre practice. Since 1999 he has worked on a research project on the reception of Shakespeare in Spain ( www.um.es/shakespeare ). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre : 1772 to the Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...The Realist Turn Spanish theatre in the period 1833–1868, that is, from the death of Ferdinand to the abdication of his successor, Isabella, has been celebrated for its variety, with a whole array of genres available to the different...

New Horizons

Keith Gregor

Keith Gregor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia in Spain. He has published widely on Shakespeare in performance and Spanish drama and theatre practice. Since 1999 he has worked on a research project on the reception of Shakespeare in Spain ( www.um.es/shakespeare ). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre : 1772 to the Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...The Festival Circuit Despite the restrictions on public spending on the arts in the latter years of the Aznar administration and following the return to power of the Socialists under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the period has seen...