Winner of the Premi Joan B. Cendrós Award 2008 for ‘the best work written in defense of the Catalan language, culture and the Catalan Nation or the best contribution to the outside projection of the Catalan Countries, in any of the aspects that conform to its national and cultural reality.

Editors: Maria M. Delgado (Queen Mary, University of London), David George (University of Wales, Swansea) & Lourdes Orozco (University of Leeds)

The performing arts of Catalonia have proved potent cultural exports in recent years nurturing the international festival market as perceptible emblems of the nation’s visibility in post-Franco Spain. From performance spaces to production companies, from emergent playwrights to interdisciplinary performers, this issue of CTR provides an introduction to contemporary Catalan theatre written by those both making theatre in Barcelona and academics in Catalonia, the UK and US with research specialisms in contemporary Catalan theatre. Polemical, political and provocative, ‘Catalan Theatre 1975-2006’ follows past issues of CTR on contemporary Australian and Polish theatre in providing a unique snapshot of a nation’s theatre culture at a key moment in its social and cultural development.

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