About
Started by Federico Garcia Lorca
Finished by Marcelo Dos Santos
Directed by Mark Maughan
Presented by The Oxford School of Drama
Play Without a Title is Lorca’s final, experimental but unfinished play. He was working on it up to the day of his assassination in 1936. Writing at a defining moment within the shadow of the Spanish Civil War he is actively questioning the role of theatre in a time of upheaval.
This “finished” play includes a new translation of Lorca’s first act with an enthralling present-day response. What does it mean to be making theatre in the UK today? What stories should we be telling on our stages now and who is allowed to tell them?
In turn funny and poignant, Play Without a Title seeks to unpack some of the contemporary debates during our own current crises.
The Company
Cast
Farah Ashraf, Aiyana Bartlett, Harriet Cantello, Sara Diab, Maximilian Graham, George Jack, Yasemin Junqueira, Hari Kang, Emily Kathryn, Laurence Maguire, Mimi Martin, Jake Mavis, Edoardo Molinari, Nye Occomore, Meg Olssen, Angharad Phillips, Mars Sams, Beth Taylor, Jessica Whiley, Ece Leah Wilde.
Creatives
Writer Marcelo Dos Santos
Director/Translator Mark Maughan
Set & Costume Designer Victoria Maytom
Lighting Designer Murong Li
Sound Designer Max Pappenheim
Marcelo Dos Santos is an award winning, Latinx British-Brazilian-Australian writer. He adapted the critically acclaimed Lionboy for Complicité which toured extensively in the UK and internationally. He has developed work through the National Theatre Studio and has been a writer on attachment at the Bush Theatre, HighTide Festival Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre.
Mark Maughan is an award-winning theatre director and maker and translator. Directing credits include The Dan Daw Show with Dan Daw (Sadler’s Wells and UK/international tour), The Weebles with Lee Mattinson (Northern Stage) and The Claim (Shoreditch Town Hall/Paines Plough Roundabout and international tour).
The Oxford School of Drama is a world-leading conservatoire providing professional actor training. Based in the Oxfordshire countryside the School runs Three Year and One Year Acting courses as well as a Six Month Foundation course. Alumni of the School include Lizzie Annis, Claire Foy, Jude Owusu, Maimuna Memon and Freddie Dennis.