Out of the Wings

El lector por horas (1996), José Sanchis Sinisterra

Productions in Spanish

El lector por horas (José Luis García Sánchez, José Sanchis Sinisterra)

Details: Director: José Luis García Sánchez , José Sanchis Sinisterra
Dates: from 21 January 1999 to 14 March 1999
Venue: Teatro Nacional de Catalunya Sala Petita
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Further information: This was a co-production between the Teatro Nacional de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Centro Dramático Nacional in Madrid. Clara Sanchís, the author’s daughter, played the role of Lorena.

El lector por horas (José Luis García Sánchez)

Details

Director: José Luis García Sánchez
Dates: 9 April 1999
Venue: Teatro María Guerrero
Location: Madrid, Spain

Critical response

Javier Villán commended the staging of this production. He noted that the play reveals how words are never innocent and called attention to its uncertainties; he wondered, for example, whether Lorena’s accident was truly an accident and whether her accusations against Ismael were true or not (Villán 1999).

Villán, Javier. 1999. Review of El lector por horas, Teatro María Guerrero, Madrid, ‘Inquietante y bello’, El Mundo, 12 April (in Spanish)

Further information

This was a co-production between the Teatro Nacional de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Centro Dramático Nacional in Madrid. Clara Sanchís, the author’s daughter, played Lorena in this production.

El lector por horas (José Luis García Sánchez)

Details: Director: José Luis García Sánchez
Dates: from 19 January 2000 to 31 January 2000
Venue: Teatro Principal de Valencia
Location: Valencia, Spain

El lector por horas (Ricardo Ramírez Carnero)

Details

Director: Ricardo Ramírez Carnero
Dates: from 2001 to 2002
Venue: Teatro Santa Catarina
Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Critical response

Reviewers praised Ricardo Ramírez Carnero’s direction, as well as the performances of all three of the actors. One reviewer was particularly impressed by the way in which the director handled the frequent scene/temporal changes through the deliberate use of a figure who comes on to rearrange the set, in the style of a Japanese koken. She noted: ‘The very obvious presence of the koken, dressed not in black but in bright clothes, accompanied by Rodrigo Mendoza’s music, helps link together the play’s potential realities’ (Harmony 2001).

Harmony, Olga. 2001. Review of El lector por horas, Teatro Santa Catarina, Mexico City, La Jornada Virtu@l, 13 December, http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2001/12/13/04aa1cul.html [accessed December 2009] (Online Publication) (in Spanish)

El lector por horas (Jorge Díaz)

Details: Director: Jorge Díaz
Production company: Proyecto Pluja
Dates: 2003
Venue: Auditorium of Fundación Telefónica
Location: Córdoba, Argentina

El lector por horas (Daniel Spinno Lara)

Details: Director: Daniel Spinno Lara
Dates: 2005
Venue: Sala Verdi
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Productions in English

Reader by the Hour (Gabriel Gawin)

Details: Director: Gabriel Gawin
Based on translation: Reader by the Hour (2006) by Paul Rankin
Dates: 27 April 2005
Venue: Rose Theatre
Location: London, United Kingdom
Further information: This was a dramatised reading of the play. After the performance a discussion was held between the director, Gabriel Gawin, the translator, Paul Rankin, and members of the cast.