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William Gregory
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Theatre, Text, Translation ‖ Literary Associate @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social ‖ Team Out of the Wings ootwfestival.com ‖ also freelance ‖ he/him 🏳️‍🌈 ‖ outdoorsy when not damaged ‖ own views

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Join us July 15-19 at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social for the annual Out of the Wings Festival. Plays from Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, all in English translation, and all UK premieres. www.omnibus-clapham.org/out-of-the-w...
OUT OF THE WINGS – Omnibus Theatre
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June 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective!

We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
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June 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I'll be chatting to editor Dom O'Hanlon, playwright Abel González Melo, and translator @Jozefina Komporaly at this free online seminar with @methuendrama.bsky.social , Global Plays in #Translation, May 28. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Just announced! The line-up for the 2025 Out of the Wings festival at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social July 15-19. UK premiere play readings from Mexico, Portugal, Colombia, Brazil, Spain and Chile, all in English translation. Join us! www.omnibus-clapham.org/out-of-the-w...
May 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Theatre translators and their friends and co-conspirators, speakers of all and any languages, join us May 16 at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social with Out of the Wings for A Night in Translation. An open-mic and a brilliant set of panellists. Free! www.ootwfestival.com/post/ootw-a-...
OOTW: A Night in Translation, May 16
Out of the Wings: A Night in TranslationOmnibus Theatre, 16 May 2025, 7:30pm, admission free (book here)Join Out of the Wings (OOTW) this May for a night in celebration of theatre, translation, and ho...
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May 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Theatre translators and their friends and co-conspirators, speakers of all and any languages, join us May 16 at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social with Out of the Wings for A Night in Translation. An open-mic and a brilliant set of panellists. Free! www.ootwfestival.com/post/ootw-a-...
OOTW: A Night in Translation, May 16
Out of the Wings: A Night in TranslationOmnibus Theatre, 16 May 2025, 7:30pm, admission free (book here)Join Out of the Wings (OOTW) this May for a night in celebration of theatre, translation, and ho...
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April 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We're buzzing to welcome Olivier award-winner Maimuna Memon as the guest speaker for our next OT Artists' Network Night.

📅 Thursday 17 April, 6:30pm
🎟️ £5 + a free drink

🔗 Join OT Artists' Network and book now: ow.ly/GMzE50VahFh
April 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A plethora of free translation labs and creative sessions coming up this week from the excellent Foreign Affairs theatre company. More at www.foreignaffairs.org.uk/celebrating-...
March 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Happy World Theatre Day from the OT Team! 🍊

Thank you for all your support - thank you to our performers, technicians, creatives, Members, Patrons, and audiences for allowing us to deliver ever-more ambitious work, reaching further into our community, and helping us make theatre for everyone 🧡
March 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Very exciting that March 28 1500GMT we'll be sharing a translation by the brilliant Jo Clifford, one of our finest theatre translators, at Out of the Wings's monthly meet-and-read. Free to attend in London or on Zoom. Not to be missed! Details via ootwfestival.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Out of the Wings
Out of the Wings Email Forms
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March 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Can you help? There's no centralised script archive of Scotland's stage translators' staged works 1974-now, but support from SSP & @edmorgantrust.bsky.social is helping me change that.

Any detail might be useful! 🙏
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Translation archive submission form
You can use this form to submit the details of any foreign language play performed professionally in translation (into Scots, English or Gaelic) in Scotland. The information will be added to an archiv...
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March 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Out of the Wings Festival of plays from Iberia and Latin America will be back at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social in July. We've been doing it for a decade now! Join us this summer. www.omnibus-clapham.org/out-of-the-w...
OUT OF THE WINGS - Omnibus Theatre
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March 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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CALLING ALL PLAYWRIGHTS🚨

Got a script? Wondering what’s next? Do you need an agent? What do they do? How do you reach out?✍️

Join us for a Zoom Q&A with Casarotto agents 🎭

📅 Monday 10th March
⏰ 7 PM
🔗Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A pleasure to read so many international plays in preparing this piece for Drama Online. Showcasing here playwrights from Nigeria, Japan, Spain, India, Argentina and Ukraine, and the translators who translate them. @methuendrama.bsky.social

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Drama Online - Featured Content
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February 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
An wonderful reflection on the art of translating a play from Rory Mullarkey.
"'Sounding English' isn’t the point. It’s a Russian play, set in Russia, 125 years ago... if anything, 'sounding Russian' is the point"

Today, we have Rory Mullarkey on his new version of Chekhov's "most beautiful" play, Three Sisters, and why the magic is in its maintaining its mystery...
'Meaning is always unstable': Rory Mullarkey on the mystery of Chekhov
As Three Sisters opens at the Globe, the playwright explores how translating Russian and Ukrainian has defined his career - and his life
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February 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"'Sounding English' isn’t the point. It’s a Russian play, set in Russia, 125 years ago... if anything, 'sounding Russian' is the point"

Today, we have Rory Mullarkey on his new version of Chekhov's "most beautiful" play, Three Sisters, and why the magic is in its maintaining its mystery...
'Meaning is always unstable': Rory Mullarkey on the mystery of Chekhov
As Three Sisters opens at the Globe, the playwright explores how translating Russian and Ukrainian has defined his career - and his life
exeuntmagazine.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Submissions for the 2025 Out of the Wings festival of plays from Ibero-America in English #translation at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social are open until February 17. www.ootwfestival.com/post/call-fo...
Call for Submissions: Out of the Wings Festival 2025
Out of the Wings Festival 2025Omnibus Theatre Clapham Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 July 2025Call for Script Submissions Out of the Wings Festival 2025 Out of the Wings (OOTW) is a collective whose missio...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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📢 Applications are now open for our 2025 OT Writers' Collective!

If you're a mid-career playwright looking to share practice, build networks, gain industry insights, and develop new ideas, we'd love to hear from you.

Find out more below 👇

⏰ Applications open until 10am on Mon 10 Feb!
Applications open for OT Writers' Collective
Applications now open for the 2025 OT Writers’ Collective, supporting mid-career playwrights with workshops, industry insights, and a bursary.
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January 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#theatre dear UK theatre pals: on Feb 21 at 1 PM, join us @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social for reading of my new play KORA K. A ghost story about the self and the space between truth and fiction. Or the story of a translator. tix: orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/kor...
January 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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London theatre pals: you can hear/see my new play KORA K on February 21 @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social . #theatre
tix here: orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/kor...
Kora K - Orange Tree Theatre
Join us for the next in the OT Lunchtime plays series, KORA K. Written by Caridad Svich and directed by Ben Purkiss.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Join us at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social Feb 8 for PLAYS FROM SPAIN. Work by three brilliant Spanish playwrights in English translation, hosted by Out of the Wings. And it’s free! 🎭 🇪🇸 🥳

Details and tix via: www.ootwfestival.com/post/out-of-...
Out of the Wings: Plays from Spain
Out of the Wings: Plays from Spain - Omnibus Theatre, 7:30pm, Saturday 8 February 2025 Join Out of the Wings at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, for Plays from Spain, an encounter with contemporary Spanish p...
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January 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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How do you choose a text to translate? What challenges do you encounter?

Translators and editors @wjg22.bsky.social, Heather Jeanne Denyer & Anna G. R. Miller discuss their new play collections, collaboration, the future of translating plays & more over on our blog bit.ly/40ch9ul
January 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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👋🏽 if you're a theatre translator or company supporting translated plays -- please introduce yourself and share widely! 🌍🌏🌎
November 29, 2024 at 5:29 PM