Female Playwrights. Dramatic Readings

The Cervantes Dublin Theatre Club will finish their rehearsal season presenting a series of dramatic readings of plays all written by women. The hegemony in theatre of male creators is a fact in universal theatre which has resulted in the work of female playwrights being diminished by the male dominance. In a contribution to the Spanish broadsheet El País, in Lucía Caraballal words: “The history of literature, theatre or cinema… has been mainly built by a male prospective, which has influenced the vision we all have of the world. As a society we deserve a range of voices as diverse as possible. We deserve good writes, of course, but also diverse among them…”

The pieces range from black comedy or depictions of traditional customs with Christmas as their backdrop, as well as showcasing more socially aware and human relationships works.

Among the playwrights whose works we will see represented in this dramatic reading are Rita Siriaka (El premiado; The Winner), Carmen Losa (Monstruos; Monsters), Carmen Luna (Encuentros en la tercera frase; Close Encounters of the Third Kind), Cristina Colmena (Y comieron perdices; They Lived Happily Ever After), and Sandra Nía Rodríguez (Nochebuena; Christmas Eve).
 
The pieces will be performed by (in alphabetical order): Verónica Aguilar Olmos, Anabel Béjar Antón, María del Canto Fontanals, María Guadalupe García Pérez, Mónica González, Mary H., Aitor Jordana, Cristina Martínez Callejas, Mary O’Donnell and Gillian Taggart and directed by Sandra Villegas (The Latin Sphere Theatre).