Presentation
Ana Caro, Drama Queen, at the University of Chicago by Noémie Ndiaye
A most welcome note from Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, on her experience teaching DTC’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs: To teach Ana Caro’s play Valor, agravio y mujer in my “Drama Queens” course, I use the translation established by the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in […]
Annotating Performance
Theatre dybbuk’s illuminated lecture format, which weaves together a scholarly lecture and performances by actors, recently offered me the opportunity to present Cervantes’ El retablo de las maravillas/The Marvelous Puppet Show to an audience unlikely ever to have encountered the text. Known for its deep dives and carefully considered productions under the able direction of Aaron Henne, […]
Apply Now: CFO for DTC’s Colloquium on Early Modern Theater at UNAM
Diversifying the Classics and UNAM’s Seminar on the Early Modern Period are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our colloquium on classical theater titled “De los textos a las tablas: El teatro de la modernidad temprana (s. XVI-XVII) en su proyección geográfica, mediática y temporal.” The colloquium will be held September 3-5, 2025 […]
Diversifying the Classics Visits Geffen Academy
This February, members of Diversifying the Classics visited UCLA’s 6th-12th grade school, Geffen Academy, to share their work with Upper School Spanish students. The visit was perfectly timed, as students in the Advanced Spanish course were studying Spanish Golden Age literature. DTC members Rhonda Sharrah, Rebecca Smith, and Aina Soley Mateu, along with Geffen Academy […]
DTC at the Folger
We are delighted to announce that our director, Barbara Fuchs, will be sharing her family-friendly adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna as part of the Folger’s Reading Room Festival on January 24th at 11:30 am. This adaptation invites young audiences to imagine solidarity in the face of tyranny while crafting and making music. Before the reading, there will be […]
DTC Welcomes Paul Wagar to Translation Workshop
On December 3rd, Diversifying the Classics was delighted to welcome the acting professor and voice coach Paul Wagar to speak to the translation workshop. Paul worked with the actors in TFT’s extraordinary production of The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs by Ana Caro, directed by Michael Hackett. Paul shared invaluable insights about how actors receive translations of Hispanic classical theater […]
Golden Tongues Workshop Presentation: Unhappily Married in Valencia
Come see Laurel Ollstein’s Unhappily Married in Valencia SEPT 13th Saturday 3pm. The Broadwater Black Box theatre It’s a farce about marriage. We all need some laughs in our lives — don’t you think? Unhappily Married in Valencia was commissioned by Playwrights’ Arena and DTC, to adapt Guillén de Castro’s Los mal casados de Valencia (1618). Laurel says: “When I first read […]
Professor Barbara Fuchs Speaks with ArtsBridge Artist-Educators
On April 8th, Barbara Fuchs joined UCLA ArtsBridge’s director Perry Daniel and her class of undergraduate artist-educators to discuss comedia, adaptation, translation, and early modern visions of the world. This engaging discussion was part of DTC’s ongoing project, now entering its third year, to bring comedia to LAUSD students in collaboration with ArtsBridge and the Bresee Foundation. We […]