Out of the Wings Worldmaking on Stage Forum 2026

Join us on Tuesday, July 14 for the opening event of the 2026 Out of the Wings Festival: the Worldmaking on Stage Forum.

On the theme of Theatre Translation Networks in Building Acts of Worldmaking, the Forum will take place at King's College London and is free to attend (register here).

At the Forum, we will bring together practitioners and researchers — actors, directors, producers, literary managers, commissioning editors, dramaturges, writers, translators, research students, theatre translation trainers, theatre translation lecturers, and academics — to engage with ideas on how we create international networks around the collective work of theatre translation. What happens in the often-conflictive spaces we create to transcend, for example, boundaries between language, cultural and geopolitical contexts?

The Forum will be held at Bush House at King's College London's central London campus, commencing at 10:00 a.m. Click here to register for the Forum free of charge.

Programme

10.30: Registration and Refreshments

11.00: Welcome from Out of the Wings

11.15-12.45: Panel 1: Staged Readings as Worldwide Encounter

Moderator: Catherine Boyle

Beyond Translation: Staged Readings as Sites of Worldview Encounter

Cheng-Han Wu & Kuan-Ting Lin

Case studies from Out of the Wings: Play Readings as Acts of Resistance

'The Anemone and the Boar' by Mónica Maffía (Argentina): Connection, Translation and Travel

Gigi Guizado and Sophie Stevens

'Double Panic' and 'Electra Garrigó': Travelling with Virgilio Piñera (Cuba)

Kate Eaton

12.45-14.00: Lunch

Provided free with registration and will include vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options

14.00-15.15: Panel 2: Inclusivity and Diversity: from the Eager to the Apathetic

Moderator: Camila González Ortiz

Lorca at the Halting Site

Riocárd Ó hOddail/Richard Huddleson

The Actor-Adaptor as a Translator in Performance Networks

Gadwill Odhiambo

Back and Forth: Translating Theatre Across Languages and Networks

Silvia Zarzoso Salvador

15.15-15.30: Break

15.30-17.00: Panel 3: Approaching Multilingualism across Geography and Time

Moderator: Kate Eaton

Beyond Words: Theatre Translation as Cultural Survival

Ana Bayat

The Use of Translation for Dramaturgical Purposes: the Case of Lope's 'Madness in Valencia'

Vicent Montalt and Jorge Picó

17.00: Forum Closes

Attendance at the Forum is free of charge, please register here

Following the Forum, all participants are encouraged to attend the first night of the Out of the Wings Festival 2026 at Omnibus Theatre: Six Acres of Olive Trees by Aina Tour, translated by Rachel Toogood (booking and information here).

The OOTW Forum is part of a whole week of activities in celebration of theatre in translation, including nighlty staged readings at Omnibus Theatre and a free theatre translation workshop on Saturday, July 18. For full information, visit our homepage at ootwfestival.com.

Born out of a collaboration between its co-founders and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed Spanish Golden Age season, OOTW has been bringing English translations of theatre from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds to the UK and beyond since 2008.