Wolf Kisses (NHB Modern Plays)
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Paloma Pedrero's play Wolf Kisses was first performed in this English translation by Roxana Silbert at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1997.
Paloma Pedrero
Paloma Pedrero (born 3 July 1957 in Madrid) is a Spanish actress, theatre director and playwright. Her plays include: La llamada de Lauren (1984), Resguardo personal (1985), Invierno de luna alegre (1985), Besos de lobo (1986), El color de agosto (1987), Las fresas mágicas (1988), La isla amarilla (1988), Noches de amor efímero (1989), Una estrella (1990), De la noche al alba (1992), Aliento de equilibrista (1993), El pasamanos (1994), Locas de amar (1994), La noche que ilumina (1995) and Cachorros de negro mirar (1995).
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Wolf Kisses (NHB Modern Plays) - Paloma Pedrero
Paloma Pedrero
WOLF KISSES
artNICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Foreword
by Elyse Dodgson
Introduction
by Mary Peate
Acknowledgements
Original Production
Characters
Wolf Kisses
About the Author
Copyright and Performing Rights Information
Foreword
The Royal Court Theatre has been involved in an exchange with new writers in Spain over the last six years. In 1993, Andalusian playwright Antonio Onetti took part in the Royal Court International Summer School, our annual residency for emerging playwrights and directors from all parts of the world. He worked on the translation of his new play with directors Roxana Silbert and Mary Peate. In 1995 David Planell and Antonio Álamo joined this new wave of young Spanish playwrights. As Álamo said at the time, ‘The word is becoming respectable again.’
In March 1996, the Spanish newspaper El País published a leading article about the new playwrights proclaiming a new found energy and enthusiasm among young theatre writers. The British Council then funded a research trip for the Royal Court to explore a creative exchange between playwrights in Spain and Britain. Playwrights, directors and artistic directors in Madrid, Barcelona and Seville convinced us we were at the beginning of an important and innovative dialogue about new writing for the theatre.
We returned with over a hundred plays from Spain and formed a reading committee at the Royal Court. We then selected six plays for a week of rehearsed readings of new plays from Spain and commissioned translations of the plays into English from Spanish and Catalan. The plays in this volume were chosen for the ‘Voices from Spain’ week of rehearsed readings at the Royal Court in April 1997. We were looking for new plays from Spain which were original, contemporary, challenging and diverse. Each writer travelled to London for the rehearsal of their play. The translator attended rehearsals with the playwright to work with actors and the director on the first reading of their play in another language.
This project was jointly funded by the European Commission Kaleidoscope Programme and the British Council. The British Council also enabled playwrights and directors from Spain to travel to London for the reading week. The enthusiasm and commitment of all the Spanish practitioners involved made it possible for the reciprocal exchange of British writers in December 1997. Nueva Dramaturgia Britànica was produced at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona, at the Cuarta Pared in Madrid and at the Centro Andaluz de Teatro in Seville with plays by nine Royal Court playwrights translated into Spanish and Catalan:
All the writers were invited to Spain to attend the rehearsed readings of their play in either Spanish (Castilian) or Catalan.
The Royal Court Theatre has been the home of new theatre writing in Britain since the English Stage Company under George Devine took up residence there in 1956. The Royal Court’s impressive international repertoire included new plays by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Miller and Wole Soyinka. Since 1993 the Royal Court has placed a renewed emphasis on the development of new international work and partnerships now exist between innovative theatre writers and practitioners in many different parts of the world. Spain is the most comprehensive programme because it embraces both senior writers emerging through exchange and the development of young playwrights. Enthusiasm from our Spanish partners has allowed many ideas to flourish.
Onetti, Álamo and Planell showed there is energy among new writers in Spain. We are delighted that since they first attended the Royal Court International Residency, other playwrights and directors have taken part: Chiqui Carabante, Beth Escudé i Gallès, Borja Ortiz de Gondra, Mercè Sarrias, Juan Mayorga, José Ortuño, Andrés Lima and Carlota Subirós Bosch.
This initiative has also inspired a new generation of Spanish translators of new British plays. Playwright Antonio Onetti translated Meredith Oakes’ Faith, Antonio Álamo translated Sarah Kane’s Blasted, David Planell translated Rebecca Prichard’s Essex Girls and Borja Ortiz de Gondra translated Phyllis Nagy’s Disappeared.
I am thrilled at how much has been achieved since the project began. The Royal