Page and Stage: Spanish and Latin American Plays in Translation

Free event at the Instituto Cervantes, London, 21 October 2026 at 18:30. Book here.

Join the Out of the Wings collective (OOTW) for an evening of theatre, translation, and their intersection with publishing. How do plays travel from stage to page - and back again - and across linguistic and national borders?

OOTW has been promoting Iberian and Latin American theatre in English translation since 2008. Since 2016, it has held an annual festival of Ibero-American playwriting, which has brought plays from 14 different countries to London audiences for the first time in English.

Many of these translations have gone on to be published by presses such as Methuen Drama, Estreno Plays, and Inti Press, as the theatre publishing scene on both sides of the Atlantic has seen a flourishing of Ibero-American theatre in English translation, in anthologies and stand-alone playtexts.

Chaired by OOTW’s director, Professor Catherine Boyle (King’s College London), Page and Stage invites guests to hear readings from a selection of these plays, and those of other projects, and to hear more from the translators, theatre-makers and publishers that have brought them to English-speaking audiences and readers.

Catherine Boyle (Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies, King's College London and Director of Out of the Wings) will chair a panel with Out of the Wings members Kate Eaton, William Gregory and Sophie Stevens, and invited guest panellists Colin Chambers (Emeritus Professor of Drama, Kingston University) and Gwen MacKeith (translator of Griselda Gambaro).

The evening will feature readings from the work of Spanish and Latin American playwrights Bosco Cayo Álvarez (Chile), Jorgelina Cerritos (El Salvador), Abilio Estévez (Cuba/Spain), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), María Martínez Sierra (Spain) and Mariano Tenconi Blanco (Argentina); translators Catherine Boyle, Anna Donko, Kate Eaton, Harley and Helen Granville Barker, William Gregory, Gwen MacKeith and Margaret Stanton, and editors Sam Buggeln, Yoandy Cabrera (Kýrne Press), Colin Chambers, Global Voices Theatre, Nina Kamberos (Laertes Press) and Richard Nelson.

The readings will be performed by actors Constanza Ruff and Eduardo Arcelus.

Page to Stage is free to attend but please book here to reserve your place.

Out of the Wings meets every month to read a play in English translation, and organises theatre and translation events throughout the year, both online and in person. Several of the translations featured in Page and Stage came through our monthly readings. Our table reads are programmed with plays that translators suggest to us. For information on how we work and how to contact us, please see out Frequently Asked Questions section. We look forward to hearing from you.