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Maria M Delgado

MARIA M DELGADO

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  

Maria M. Delgado is Professor of Theatre & Screen Arts at Queen Mary University of London and co-editor of the Routledge Theatre journal Contemporary Theatre Review. She is also a contributing editor of Western European Stages and TheatreForum. Her books on Spanish culture include Other' Spanish Theatres: erasure and Inscription on the Twentieth Century Spanish Stage (MUP 2003), Federico Garcia Lorca (Routledge 2008), three co-edited volumes for Manchester University Press, two collections of translations for Methuen and a further co-edited volume, Contemporary European Theatre Directors, published by Routledge in 2010. She has translated works by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, Bernard-Marie Koltes, Susana Torres-Molina, Mario Benedetti and Ricardo Sued. Her translations of Valle-Inclan and Koltes are published by Methuen. Her Theatre and opera criticism is regularly published in Plays International and Western European Stages. She has been a programme advisor to the London Film Festival since 1997 and writes and broadcasts on film for Sight and Sound and a range of BBC Radio programmes. She has conducted public interviews with many leading filmmakers including Pedro Almodovar, Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Saura and Julio Medem and has served on a range of juries and panels -- including the Rolex 2001-02 Mentor and Protege Nominating Panel and the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Music, Drama and Dance Research Awards panel (2005-08). She is currently Chair of the Board of ATC (Actors Touring Company), a member of the Leverhulme Trust's Advisory Panel, an Assessor for Arts Council england, and Chair of subpanel D:35 (Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts) for the Higher education Funding's Council ReF2014. She received the Orden de Isabel la Catolica in 2003 and the Premi Memorial Joan B. Cendros in 2008.

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         Black Battles With Dogs         Divine Word         Night Just Before the Forests

Black Battles With Dogs

Synopsis:
Three europeans are isolated on the construction site of a western company in the heart of Africa, surrounded by barbed wire fences. High up on the watchtowers above, African security guards call out in the night to one another in throat songs to keep awake. as evening falls, a mysterious man, alboury, penetrates the camp. When it emerges that he has come to demand the body of his brother who died that day in unknown circumstances, the ensuing action leads to a disturbing twist of events. . .Black Battles with Dogs takes place in a world where people are trapped and alone and where racism, fear and envy take hold of each character in turn.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bernard-Marie Koltes. Translated by David Bradby And Maria M. Delgado

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Organisations:
Independent Productions in association with Southwark Playhouse

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Divine Word

Synopsis:
When Juana la Reina, the old beggar woman dies, who in the village will take care ofher idiot son, the dwarf? It all depends how profitable that care could be. When it comes to snouts in the trough, it turns out we are all in it together. Bohemian, Galician playwright Ramon del Valle-Inclan, 'one-armed like Cervantes and lame like Byron', had to invent his own word ('esperpento') to describe his savage, grotesque, hilarious, impossible plays. Long admired in Spaina nd the rest ofeurope, emulated by Lorca and Bunuel, he has been ignored for too long in the UK.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Ramon Del Valle-Inclan

1st Produced:
Manchester: Capitol Theatre     24 Mar 2004

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Night Just Before the Forests

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bernard-Marie Koltes

1st Produced:
Arcola, London     2004

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Genre:
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