Out of the Wings

Pedro de Urdemalas (1614-1615), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Productions in Spanish

Pedro de Urdemalas (Ana Istarú)

Details: Director: Ana Istarú
Dates: 27 October 1968
Venue: Teatro Nacional de la Ciudad de Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Further information: Also opened 4-12-1969 in Teatro Español de Madrid

Pedro de Urdemalas (Elisa Lerner)

Details

Director: Elisa Lerner
Production company: Compañía de Gaspar Cano
Dates: 15 July 1998
Venue: Corral de Comedias de Almagro
Location: Almagro (Ciudad Real), Spain

Critical response

See López Mozo 1999

López Mozo, Jerónimo. Jan. 1999. ‘De pícaro a cómico’, Reseña, 301, 18-19 (in Spanish)

Further information

Part of the Festival de Almagro

Productions in English

Pedro, the Great Pretender (Virgilio Piñera)

Details

Director: Virgilio Piñera
Based on translation: Pedro, the Great Pretender (2004) by Roberto Cossa
Production company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Dates: 1 September 2004
Venue: The Swan Theatre
Location: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Critical response

The Royal Shakespeare Company production (in English) was well reviewed, and often mentioned Osment’s translation which was written in verse-forms which matched the rhyme scheme and metre of the original Spanish verse. See Billington 2004 and Shuttleworth 2004

Billington, Michael. 2004. Review of Pedro, the Great Pretender, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Guardian, 10 September, p. 26
Shuttleworth, Ian. 2004. Review of Pedro, the Great Pretender, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Financial Times, 13 September, p. 17

Further information