Great review from The Poly Post!
"Every single seat at the Greenway Court Theater was taken by an eager spectator, proving that there is a need for more events like LA Escena Festival."
By Paola De Leon This September, “Diversifying the Classics,” an initiative directed by Barbara Fuchs at UCLA, brought LA Escena, ...
Upcoming reading of our latest translation!
Closing night of the festival tonight! Starts at 5PM - tickets available at the door!
Opening night tonight!
El Merolico - Tickets available at the door
Women and Servants - SOLD OUT
Come out Sunday to the famous flea market Melrose Trading Post (part of Greenway Arts Alliance) and stay for LAEscena Festival right next door! Support local high school students and diversity in the arts with two great events in one fun day!
LA Escena is a Los Angeles Times Weekend Pick!
Weekend picks for Sept. 20-23 include LA Opera’s “Don Carlo”; Debra Jo Rupp in “The Cake” at the Geffen Playhouse; Arcade Fire at the Greek Theatre; CAP UCLA's "Blind Spot"; "The Sound of Music" at the Hollywood Bowl; LA Escena 2018 theater festival; and the annual San Pedro Festival of th...
EFE TRES teatro getting ready for El Príncipe Ynocente (The Innocent Prince) at LAEscena Festival! Performances by EFE Tres, LatinX Theater at UCLA and Playwrights' Arena start TOMORROW Friday 9/21 and go all weekend at Greenway Court Theatre! Get your tickets here - https://laescena2018.brownpapertickets.com
@s_petrola y @fervilla_actor ensayando #elprincipeynocente @ucla #teatroclasico #lope @teatroclasicomx @festivaldealmagro
LA Escena featured in LA Times' weekly preview of theater openings around the city! Learn more about the upcoming 3-day event: http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/la-escena/
The week ahead in SoCal theater, Sept. 16-23, 2018
The performers getting ready for the festival!
First rehearsal of "Women and Servants"
Check out the full schedule for LA Escena - just two weeks left to get tickets!
LA Escena is part of the "Diversifying the Classics" performance series, featuring collaborations with Playwrights' Arena and LatinX Theater at UCLA.
Playwrights' Arena will present the fourth "Golden Tongues" with staged readings of adapted Spanish Golden Age plays, and LatinX Theater at UCLA will perform Lope de Vega's "Women and Servants", a play only recently rediscovered after 400 years and translated into English for the first time by UCLA Professor and LA Escena director Barbara Fuchs.
Learn more at our website: http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/la-escena/
pc: Reed Hutchinson
LA Escena Festival presents El Príncipe Ynocente, by EFE Tres Teatro! Mistaken identities, lost princes, and less-than-noble behavior make for a royal mess in this Lope de Vega classic reimagined as a dialogue between two prisoners in their cell. Tickets available now for LA Escena!
Principe Trailer Príncipe Ynocente, comedia de Lope de Vega 16 personajes, 2 actores, 1 lope de vega
LA Escena LA's first Hispanic Classical Theater festival will open on September 21st.
https://t.co/WEVEomUovU
UCLA group presents “LA Escena,” the city’s first Hispanic classical theater festival Sept. 21–23.
Retweeted Marta Albalá (@marta_albala):
#Diversifiyingtheclassics, dirigido por Barbara Fuchs, publica en su página web 6 traducciones originales de clásicos del teatro del Siglo de Oro que destacan por la importancia de sus roles femeninos y carecían de traducción en inglés. https://t.co/bdpn1EQ3wa
“Six original new translations from Spanish to English of untranslated Hispanic Golden Age theatrical masterpieces, by Lope de Vega, Guillén de Castro, & Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, by the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance:... https://t.co/6KqXoVeR9Q”
Six original new translations from Spanish to English of untranslated Hispanic Golden Age theatrical masterpieces, by Lope de Vega, Guillén de Castro, & Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, by the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance: https://t.co/6KqXoVeR9Q
A Wild Night in Toledo is one of Lope de Vega’s love plays. The action takes place almost entirely inside an inn in Toledo, a Spanish city where roads and paths cross, and where a multitude of characters of different ages, classes, genders, and regions of Spain come to mingle and make love from du...
Retweeted Miguel Martínez (@fusonegro):
Sobre actrices y actores: "Sepa vuesa merced que, como son gentes alegres y de placer, todos los favorecen, todos los amparan, ayudan y estiman, que todos o los más en sus trajes y compostura parecen unos príncipes" (II.11) #Cervantes2018
Have you checked out our translations of five Golden Age plays? You can take a look at them on our website (http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/) or purchase a handy-dandy Juan de la Cuesta paperback copy this coming fall #diversifyingtheclassics #thecomediaintranslation #lopedevega #guillendecastro
What are the stakes, and the possible effects, of bringing to diverse audiences the canon of early modern Hispanic theater that has largely gone unproduced and unremarked in US theatrical circles? In recent years, theaters across the US have made a strong commitment to greater diversity in their per...
#diversifyingtheclassics translation of Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre (The Force of Habit) is up on our Website. Can gender be learned and unlearned? https://t.co/G5me16klGF
Guillén de Castro’s The Force of Habit (La fuerza de la costumbre, c. 1610) is singular among comedias in that it takes the popular device of cross-dressed characters a step further, daring to ask whether gender is something that can be learned and unlearned, or if it is a fact of nature. The pro...
Retweeted Marta Albalá (@marta_albala):
Fun, impressive, a rare pearl of tragicomic and farcical flair of 16th century Spanish theater. Bartolomé Torres Naharro in all his splendor in Comedia Aquilana's performance at @ClasicosAlcala 👏👏👏@naodamores 👏👏👏 Ana Zamora @TEATROCLASICO https://t.co/YpE66lspiY
Retweeted Centro Buendía. UVa (@centrobuendia):
Décimo tercera edición de @OlmedoClasico una gran programación, estad pendientes #SoyClá[email protected] @Dip_Va @aytolmedo. Un año más, la @UVa_es organiza las jornadas, este año abarca el tema de “Clásicos y ciberclásicos” https://t.co/8DuVLIDjPK
Retweeted Corral de Comedias (@corraldecomedi):
Hoy cumplimos 64 años de la reapertura del único Corral de Comedias que se conserva tal cual la estructura original del S.XVII.en el mundo. https://t.co/hHZ3UeNlP0
And with Maria de Zaya's adaptation of La traición en la amistad, in School For Witches, or Friendship Betrayed, by Madhuri Shekar, Saturday, September 22, 6:00 pm. #laescenafestival #diversifyingtheclassics
Tickets available now for this year's Festival, to take place September 21-23, 2018!
To purchase tickets, check out our website: http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/la-escena/
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