As part of the 2025 Out of the Wings Festival, Out of the Wings is once again coming together with Language Acts and Worldmaking to offer a one-day discussion forum aimed at theatre translation practitioners and researchers.

Taking place on Tuesday 15 July, and timed to coincide with the opening day of the Out of the Wings Festival (15 – 19 July 2025), the Forum will set the scene for a week of play readings from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain, presented in English translation every evening at Omnibus Theatre.

This year’s Forum, ‘Worldmaking on Stage. Hearing Each Other’ explores how we hear translation. Our contributors consider questions around the soundscapes of translation, the role of actors, directors, producers and audiences in hearing translation, the ways in which we create systems, communities and networks of translators through mutual listening and how hearing and listening create collaborators.

Programme

10.30 Registration and refreshments

11.00 Welcome from Out of the Wings.

11.15 - 12.45 Panel 1. Hearing in Practice

Moderator: Catherine Boyle

‘Re-imagining melodrama and counter-colonial approaches to actor training’

Almiro Andrade

‘Spanglish theatre en tu colegio’

Amalia Ortiz de Zárate

12.45 - 14.00 LUNCH (provided with registration and will include vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options)

14.00 - 15.15 Panel 2. Hearing during the theatre-making process

Moderator. Camila González

‘Dialect in theatre translation’

Kotryna Garanasvili

‘In between: community writing and collaborative devising’

Rita Júlia Sebestyén

15.15 - 15.30 Break

15.30 - 17.00 Panel 3 . How audiences hear translated work

Moderator. Kate Eaton

‘Staging against English, the global lingua franca’

MA students from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Nicolas Lamy; Margo Lebioda; Sama Sabagh; Natalie Schmidt; Nishita Subramanyam.

‘Translating memory: bilingual storytelling in The Reckoning’

Josephine Burton

‘Staging plays in translation as cross-cultural practice’

Trine Garrett

17.00. Forum closes.

All participants are encouraged to attend the first night of the Out of the Wings Festival 2025 at Omnibus Theatre.