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William Gregory

WILLIAM GREGORY

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

I have been translating plays since 2003, when I found Julio Escalda's Springtime on a shelf at the Instituto Cervantes, translated it, and then staged it at the Finborough Theatre in London. For two nights we filled the auditorium. Since that blisteringly hot London August, I have translated dozens of plays, many of them new works, for clients including the Royal Court Theatre, the BBC and the Gate, and for productions at the Old Vic and the Edinburgh International and Fringe Festivals. This site includes highlights from these projects, including Pedro Almodovar's All About my Mother, the New Plays from Chile, Arena Mexico and Cuba Real seasons at the Royal Court, and The Widow, a classic of Chilean theatre available in English translation for the first time. My translations have also been performed in the US and in Ireland, and several have been published. I have also lectured on theatre translation and have written articles on the subject for journals in the UK and France. I learned Spanish (and French and German) at school in my hometown of Grimsby, a fishing port in the northeast of England. I then read Spanish and French at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and spent a year at the Escuela Navarra de Teatro in Pamplona, Spain. I then moved to London and trained as an actor at Drama Studio London. Some highlights from my time as an actor include The Borrowers at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at theCitizens' Theatre in Glasgow, and Journey's End on tour and in the West End. I hold the Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation and am a member of the Translators' Association. As well as translating, I am proud to work for PACE, London's leading charity promoting mental health and well-being in the LGBT community.

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         B         Chamaco (Kiddo)         Chan!         Cinema Red         I'd Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My sleep Than Some Other Arsehole         Negra, The General's Nurse (Negra, la enfermera del General)         Nuke (Mother)         Spain         Speech         That Thing I Never Shared with You         Villa         Weathered

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Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches. But is that enough to bring about change? Alejandra and Marcela are planting bombs in the middle of the night. They dont want violence. They just want to be heard. Prisons not much of a threat when most of your friends are inside. Then they meet Jose Miguel. He is from a different generation, a time when revolution was ripe and activism alive. And he offers them a chance to start a war.

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Original Playwright - Guilermo Calderon

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Chamaco (Kiddo)

Synopsis:
Christmas Eve in Havana while his sister waits for her brother to come home for Christmas dinner he has been knifed to death

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Original Playwright - Abel Gonzalez Melo

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Viva Spanish and Latin American Festival     2016

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Chan!

Synopsis:
It's a long flight home and a bumpy landing for Aurora and Jose, two Chilean graduates whose love blossomed while studying in New York. Back in Santiago, they struggle to adapt to the realities of adult life. the fast-mutating skyline belies a city still weighed down by history, and what once made sense in Brooklyn looks flawed in the shadow of the Andes.

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Original Playwright - Camila Le-Bert. Part of New Plays From Chile - A series of five plays, in the week that marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup (11 September 1973) that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratic government, giving us a rare insight into life in Chile today.

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Cinema Red

Synopsis:
Buy a ticket from the Kid, take a seat and enjoy the best of adult cinema. alondra's risking her life moonlighting to save up the money she needs for the trip of a lifetime; Sasha's saving herself for the right man after 50 years on the game. This is Cinema Red.

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Original Playwright - Zaria Abreu

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eastern EURopean Readings

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I'd Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My sleep Than Some Other Arsehole

Synopsis:
When you hit a crisis in finances, family and philosophy, there's only one way to stop life from getting you down: blow your life savings on drugs and booze, take your sons on the road trip of their lives through the streets of Madrid, break into the Prado, and stare at the Black Paintings of Francisco Goya all night long. But how do you argue with your kids when they'd prefer to find spiritual fulfillment at Disneyland?

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Original Playwright - Rodrigo Garcia

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Negra, The General's Nurse (Negra, la enfermera del General)

Synopsis:
Times have changed. Viewed now with disgust by the nation whose leader she once so proudly served, a nurse takes refuge in the arid northern mountains of her birth. Reunited with her family, she sets about forging a new life, but the vengeance of a people, and of the very earth, may not be so easy to escape.

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Original Playwright - Bosco Israel Cayo Alvarez. Part of New Plays From Chile - A series of five plays, in the week that marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup (11 September 1973) that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratic government, giving us a rare insight into life in Chile today.

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Nuke (Mother)

Synopsis:
In Chile's rural south, Carmen sees her native Mapuche community demonised, her family invaded and her ancient way of life threatened by a seemingly unstoppable outside world. As her neighbours seek to resist while the country stands ambivalent to their plight, how long will this mother hold out before her stoicism reaches breaking point?

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Original Playwright - David Arancibia Urzua. Part of New Plays From Chile - A series of five plays, in the week that marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup (11 September 1973) that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratic government, giving us a rare insight into life in Chile today.

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Spain

Synopsis:
International writers join up with their British counterparts to bring their experiences to the Royal Court. What is life really like for those living in todays austerity. Daily dispatches from Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain will invade the Jerwood theatre Upstairs. "With unemployment reaching almost 30% in Greece, soup kitchens springing up and immigrants being physically assaulted by Neo-Nazis on a regular basis it seems like the right time to put the lives of those affected by the eurozone crisis centre-stage at the Royal Court. Collaborating with writers from the countries on the frontline of austerity and using a variety of theatrical forms we will bring the PIIGS into the heart of London for a week of tragedy, comedy and rage" - Alexi Kaye Campbell, Playwright

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Vanessa Montfort (Madrid), Alexandra Wood (London), Translated by William Gregory

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Speech

Synopsis:
a president makes her farewell speech on leaving office but she is not being as gracious and diplomatic as she should be. Is she saying what she really thinks or is someone putting words into her mouth?

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Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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That Thing I Never Shared with You

Synopsis:
After years of estrangement, a Father and daughter are reunited over an uneasy breakfast. As her son prepares for a school day he will once again miss, the daughter reveals the reason for her recent isolation, little realising that her own confession will uncover painful secrets left locked away for decades.

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Original Playwright - Claudia Hidalgo. Part of New Plays From Chile - A series of five plays, in the week that marks the 40th anniversary of the military coup (11 September 1973) that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratic government, giving us a rare insight into life in Chile today.

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Villa

Synopsis:
During the Pinochet regime in Chile, approximately 5000 detainees were brought to Villa Grimaldi: most were tortured, hundreds disappeared. Today, the Villa has been demolished. Three women discuss the future of the site where it once stood. Should it have a new life or remain a memorial to the crimes committed there? How should we remember the violence of the state?

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Original Playwright - Pedro Calderon De La Barca

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Weathered

Synopsis:
Cuba a divided island

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Original Playwright - Abel Gonzalez Melo

1st Produced:
Viva Spanish and Latin American Festival     2016

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