Out of the Wings returns for its annual festival of Ibero-American playwriting. Celebrating our 10th anniversary, we present readings of plays from six different countries, all in English translation, and in the UK for the first time.

The plays of #OOTW2025 traverse continents and centuries, the real and the dreamed, the playful and the poignant, from the witch trials of 17th-Century Salem in Tituba, to a comic dystopian future in The Last Remaining Video Store is Still in Business; from the dreams of a literary giant in Dr Feelgood to the longings of youth in Spider Girls; from the delight of 1940s radio theatre in The Ages of Man to a comedic road-trip from the Arctic to the Americas in Firefly Love.

The play-readings are one element of #OOTW2025’s five-day programme of theatre in translation. This unmissable flagship event in the OOTW calendar begins with the OOTW Forum at King’s College London, then continues with practical workshops, our festival book-sale, and opportunities to meet the OOTW team. Join us as we showcase the diversity of playwriting in Iberia and Latin America across a week of discovery, creativity, and cross-border collaboration.

Born out of a collaboration between its co-founders and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed Spanish Golden Age season, OOTW has been bringing English translations of theatre from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds to the UK and beyond since 2008.

All plays at #OOTW2025 will be presented as staged readings.