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Festival Of Spanish Theatre In London (Festelón)
The Festival of Spanish Theatre of London (FesTeLõn) has taken place in June every year since 2013, when it opened at the Greenwood Theatre, with a production of ''El Diccionario (The Dictionary)'' by Manuel Calzada, a play about the lexicographer María Moliner, with Vicky Peña starring in the lead role. Its objective is to bring contemporary theatre beyond the borders of Spain, working with professional Spanish theatre companies. The plays are usually performed in Spanish with English surtitles in order to ensure that they are accessible to the widest possible audience. The festival also includes a full programme of related talks and workshops to complement the stage performances, as well as bilingual “meet the cast” sessions, with Q&A. Production list * 2013: ''El Diccionario (The Dictionary)'' by Manuel Calzada * 2014: ''En un lugar del Quijote (Somewhere in Don Quixote) '' by Ron Lalá Teatro * 2015: ''Las heridas del viento (Wounded by the Wind)'' by Juan Carlos Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Moliner
María Moliner (30 March 1900 – 22 January 1981) was a Spanish librarian and lexicographer. She is perhaps best known for her '' Diccionario de uso del español'', first published in 1966–1967, when she completed the work started in 1952. Biography María Juana Moliner Ruiz was the eldest daughter of Enrique Moliner, a doctor and son of a doctor, and Matilde Ruiz. At the age of two, her family moved from Zaragoza to Almazán in the border province of Soria. While a teenager her father left for Argentina and never came back, while Moliner, according to her son Fernando, lived with her mother, sister Matilde and brother Enrique in severe poverty. She pursued her Bachillerato at the Instituto General y Técnico Cardenal Cisneros, and obtained a degree in History in 1921 from the University of Zaragoza. She married Fernando Ramón Ferrando, a physics graduate, in 1925 and had four children. Years later the couple moved to Valencia. In 1946, Moliner was put in charge of the librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Calderón De La Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (, ; ; 17 January 160025 May 1681) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. He is known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age, especially for his plays. Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid, where he spent most of his life. He was born on a boat in the Manzanares river, thus the name "de la Barca" added to his father's last name. During his life, he served as soldier and he was a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre. As such, he is regarded as one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature. Biography Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid on Friday, 17 January 1600, and was baptized in the parish of San Martín. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual Events In London , in biology
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Annual may refer to: *Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual *Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), a musical group See also * Annual Review (other) * Circannual cycle A circannual cycle is a biological process that occurs in living creatures over the period of approximately one year. This cycle was first discovered by Ebo Gwinner and Canadian biologist Ted Pengelley. It is classified as an Infradian rhythm, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals In London
The culture of London concerns the music, museums, festivals and lifestyle within London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. London has frequently been described as a global cultural capital and is one of the world's leading business centres, renowned for its technological readiness and economic clout, as well as attracting the most foreign investment of any global city. As such, London has often been ranked as the world's capital city. The city is particularly renowned for its theatre quarter, and its West End theatre district has given the name to "West End theatre", the strand of mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in London. London is also home to notable cultural attractions such as the British Museum, the Tate Galleries, the National Gallery, the Notting Hill Carnival and The O2. Through music, comedy and theatre, London has a lively nightlife with approximately 25.6 events per thousand people, 44.1% of those events being theatre based. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángela De Azevedo
Ángela de Azevedo (in Spanish, Acevedo) was a 17th Century Portuguese playwright. Biography Controversy about the period and circumstances of her life According to Damião de Froes Perym, an 18th century Portuguese author, Ângela de Azevedo was born in Lisbon, likely in the early 17th century, to a nobleman of the Royal House, João de Azevedo Pereira and his wife Izabel de Oliveira. Perym writes that she spent time in the court of Philip IV of Spain in Madrid as a handmaiden to the king's wife Elisabeth of Bourbon. and notes that Azevedo married sometime before Elisabeth's death in 1644, but does not record her husband's name. After his death, she supposedly retired with her daughter to a Benedictine convent in Portugal where she lived until her death. However, another 18th century Portuguese author, Diogo Barbosa Machado, in the second and in the fourth volumes of his ''Bilbiotheca Lusitana,'' presented a very different version of Ângela de Azevedo's life, stating that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with '' Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—-he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). García Lorca was gay and suffered from depression after the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerma
''Yerma'' is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934 and first performed that same year. García Lorca describes the play as "a tragic poem." The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. Plot * ''Act 1, scene 1:'' Yerma has been married two years. She wants to strengthen her husband, Juan, so he can give her children. Telling Yerma to stay at home, Juan goes back to his work in the olive groves, and Yerma talks and sings to the child she wishes she were carrying. María, married five months and already pregnant, asks Yerma to sew for the baby. Yerma fears that if she, too, doesn't conceive soon, her blood will turn to poison. The couple's friend, Víctor, sees Yerma sewing and assumes she is pregnant. His advice when he learns the truth: Try harder. *''Act 1, scene 2:'' Yerma has just taken Juan his dinner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Mihura
Miguel Mihura Santos (21 July 1905, in Madrid – 27 October 1977) was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy '' Tres sombreros de copa'' (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre. He was also active as a comics artist. Biography Miguel Mihura was born in Madrid in 1905. His father was an actor and theatrical producer. When he was in his twenties, he wrote his best-known comedy, ''Tres sombreros de copa'', but its humour was not appreciated by the conservative pre-war Spanish society. ''Tres sombreros de copa'' was not staged until 1952, achieving a great success. In the 1920s he was a contributor of the satirical magazine ''Gutiérrez''. During the civil war he edited a satirical magazine entitled '' La Ametralladora'' which was produced by the nationalists. In 1941 he founded another satirical magazine, '' La Codorniz'', which he owned and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Enrique Jardiel Poncela (15 October 1901 – 18 February 1952) was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works. In 1932-33 and 1934 he was called to Hollywood to help with the Spanish-language versions shot in parallel to the English-language films. His daughter, Evangelina, wrote a book entitled, ''Mi padre'' (My Father). Work Novels * ''Amor se escribe sin hache'' (1928) * ''Espérame en Siberia, vida mía'' * ''Pero... ¿hubo alguna vez once mil vírgenes?'' (1931) * ''La tournée de Dios'' (1932) Short stories compilations * ''El libro del convaleciente'' * ''Pirulís de la Habana'' * ''Exceso de equipaje'' Theatre * ''El príncipe Raudhick'', 1919. * ''La banda de Saboya'', 1922. * ''Mi prima Dolly'', 1923. * ''¡Te he guiñado un ojo!'', 1925. * ''La hoguera'', 1925. * ''La noche del Metro'', 1925. * ''¡Achanta que te conviene!'', 1925. * ''El truco de Wenceslao'', 1926. * ''¡Qué Colón!'', 1926. * ''¡Vamos a Romea!'', 1926. * ''Se alquila u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Peña
Maria Victòria Peña Carulla (born 11 January 1954) better known as Vicky Peña is a Spanish actress. She is one of the most important voice actors in Catalan and Spanish. Family and early life She is the daughter of the actors Felip Peña and Montserrat Carulla, and the mother of Miranda Gus. She started working in the 1966 TV series ''La pequeña comedia''. Since then, she has been nominated and rewarded with several prizes. In 2005, she was elected as Vice President of the Professional Actors and Directors Association of Catalonia. Selected filmography *''Werther'' (1986) *''La casa de Bernarda Alba'' (1987) *''Entre rojas'' (1995) *'' The Good Life'' (1996) *''Marquise'' (1997) *''Secretos del corazón'' (1997) *''El pianista'' (1998) *''Em dic Sara'' (1999) . *''Sé quién eres'' (2000) . *''Morir (o no)'' (2000) *''Noche de fiesta'' (2002) *''Smoking Room'' (2002) *'' Piedras'' (2002) *''El deseo de ser piel roja'' (2002) *''Las voces de la noche'' (2003) *''Joves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
