In Spain and Latin America, José Luis Acosta is one of the most acclaimed writer-directors for the screen. In the UK, he’s an unknown. This dramatised reading sought to change ...
In creating the Anti-Gallery Gallery Show in and around Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch, the art collective Degrees of Freedom creates an irreverent counterpoint to the usual gallery space – and ...
The Unquiet Grave of García Lorca is the second play by veteran theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh. Now it’s the critic who opens himself up to criticism. Charlotte Fereday steps ...
Should we laugh in the face of terrible conflict? To mark the launch of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, four writers – from Sudan to Sri Lanka – discuss ...
Hamlyn, by prominent Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, is an indictment of a city where corruption seeps like pus. How do you say “plus ça change” in Spanish?
Hispanicist-in-residence Charlotte Fereday surveys the Arcola’s revival of three Spanish Golden Age plays.
Amid the release of two members of Pussy Riot, Charlotte Fereday looks at the Russian protest band’s adoption of one of the essential mantras of the Spanish Civil War.
“When a performance is over, what remains?” asked Peter Brook in The Empty Space. EcoCentrix: Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts, an exhibition dedicated to indigenous performance art, considers exactly this, says ...
Last month Charlotte Fereday, scholar of Latin American theatre, reviewed the Royal Court’s New Plays From Chile. Now she turns her hand to an even more sprawling and ambitious event: ...
Last week, the Royal Court finished its staging of five plays from up-and-coming Chilean writers – one of two major Latin American theatre events in London this autumn, the other ...
